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Running an OpenStack cloud? Come to the first European Mid-Cycle Operators meetup The meetup, held February 15 – 16, 2016 in Manchester, is a chance for operators to share best practices and give feedback. The keys to OpenStack startup success: Platform9 Systems Platform9 Systems opens its startup playbook, highlighting ecosystem challenges and tips for fellow… Read more »

Travel grants bring global community members to OpenStack Summit Key contributors from 15 countries attended the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. The program for Austin is growing – find out more about the Travel Support Program. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Neutron, Cinder and Ceilometer Meet the project team leads (PTLs) and find out… Read more »

Individual Member Director nominations are now open The deadline for Individual Member Director nominations is next Friday, December 11, 2015 How to manage medical and health data with OpenStack, a wearable sensor and smart apps “Our hope is to inspire you to look into open source, to think of ways to solve the data problems… Read more »

A primer on Magnum, OpenStack containers-as-a-service Adrian Otto, project team lead, on how Magnum works and what problems it can solve for you. OpenStack Mitaka release: what’s next for Ansible, Oslo and Designate Meet the project team leads (PTLs) for these OpenStack projects and find out how to get involved. Learn what’s coming in other… Read more »

Kilowatts for Humanity harnesses the wind and sun to electrify rural communities OpenStack-powered DreamCompute cloud computing helps keep rural microgrids up and running OpenStack and Network Function Virtualization, the backstory Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack executive director, gave a keynote at the OPNFV Summit where he talked about the two communities. Fighting cloud vendor lock-in, manga style… Read more »

Superuser TV Introduced at the Tokyo Summit, Superuser TV offers community and industry insights, plus educational topics to support the OpenStack community. With content ranging from deployments to diversity, from emerging technologies to cloud strategy, Superuser TV is aiming to provide the community with access to a variety of perspectives and knowledge October 2015 user survey… Read more »

Liberty, the 12th release of OpenStack, came out yesterday With 1,933 individual contributors and 164 organizations contributing to the release, Liberty offers finer-grained management controls, performance enhancements for large deployments and more powerful tools for managing new technologies such as containers in production environments: Learn what’s new Break down those silos, OpenStack “The projects need to… Read more »

53 things that are new in OpenStack Liberty Another autumn, another OpenStack release.  OpenStack’s 12th release, Liberty, is due on October 15, and release candidates are already being made available.  But what can we expect from the last six months of development? App Developers: First App on OpenStack Tutorial Needs You The tutorial that guides… Read more »

Register for OpenStack Summit Tokyo 2015 Full access registration prices increase on 9/29 at 11:59pm PT This trove of user stories highlights what people want in OpenStack The Product Working Group recently launched a Git repository to collect requirements ranging from encrypted storage to rolling upgrades. How storage works in containers Nick Gerasimatos, senior director… Read more »