Monthly Archives:: March 2013

OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 8-22)

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Highlights of the week Kwapi: an energy efficiency architecture XLcloud HPC project focuses on providing high performance HPC services, while improving energy efficiency. Kwapi makes a smart use of data collected by Ceilometer interfaced with wattmeters in order to introduce power consumption statistics in OpenStack Nova scheduling strategies. Kwapi is stored on StackForge and a… Read more »

Report: March month OpenStack meetup,Bangalore, India

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In March a meetup was organized in Bangalore, India. http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/105831232/ The meetup was attended by over 90 people from varied backgrounds: start-ups, students, researchers, developers, etc. Venkata Jagana delivered the welcome and the Keynote session. He covered the breadth of Openstack, its unique development model and also introduced the “IBM SmartCloud framework” to show how… Read more »

OpenStack hits World Hosting Days 2013 in Germany!

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The buzz around OpenStack among the leading service providers in Europe was undeniable at the WHD.global annual conference in Germany as exciting conversations took place at the OpenStack booth as well as onstage. Kurt Garloff, VP of Engineering, Cloud Services for Deutsche Telekom, took the stage to talk about how DT has built their TelekomCloud… Read more »

Participate in the first OpenStack User Survey!

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If you are an OpenStack user or have customers with OpenStack deployments, please take 10 minutes to respond to our first User Survey or pass it along to your network. Our community has grown at an amazing rate in 2.5 years, and it’s time to better define our user base and requirements, so we can… Read more »

Event Report: OpenStack workshop Bangalore, India

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On 16th March 2013 PESIT, Bangalore, India had invited over 250 students from local engineering college in town. The agenda was spread the word of OpenStack to all the students. One can find complete agenda of event   http://www.meetup.com/Indian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/107140322/  All the students were asked to join an introductory OpenStack session one day in advance i.e 15th March. Nithya Ganesan gave… Read more »

OpenStack and Friends at SCALE 11x

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The Foundation had a great time meeting friends old and new as a Silver sponsor of this year’s Southern California Linux Expo in Los Angeles February 22-24. We thank Christopher MacGown, Founder and Chief Scientist at Piston Cloud, whose standing-room-only, The Tao of OpenStack, talk was one of the hottest of the show.  Thank you also… Read more »

OpenStack track in Cologne, Germany

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Mark your calendars for the OpenStack track at the PythonCamp 2013  in Cologne on Saturday, 04-May-2013! The schedule is still being finalized but possible topics include OpenStack introduction and updates from the summit Introduction to HEAT Also, if you would like to speak at this event please email us at os-track-cgn at lbox dot cc… Read more »