From Daniel Morris in the OpenStack developer mailing list comes a new incubation project announcement… Today Rackspace is announcing the introduction of Database as a Service (Project RedDwarf) for a possible affiliated OpenStack incubation project. To give you some background, Database as a Service is a scalable relational database service that allows users toquickly and… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: April 2011
Mark Collier on Facebook’s Open Compute
Mark Collier has a detailed blog post with plenty of videos on the recent Facebook announcement of Open Compute. The complete post is here. My favorite part… Starting today, communities like Open Compute can combined forces with other open communities like OpenStack and Cloud Foundry to get real world data on how a given workload… Read more »
OpenStack Cactus Release Webinar – UPDATE
OpenStack Cactus Release Webinar Thursday, April 21, 4:00 pm ET The OpenStack Cactus webinar will cover new features implemented in the Cactus release of OpenStack. Presenting these features will be the Project Technical Leads: Vish Ishaya for OpenStack Compute (Nova), John Dickinson for OpenStack Object Storage (Swift), and Jay Pipes for OpenStack Image Service (Glance). … Read more »
OpenStack Conference is OPEN EVENT – Overflow Policy and Process
Next week is the OpenStack Conference and Design Summit sponsored by Citrix in Santa Clara, CA at the Hyatt Regency. For those of you who have been following the registration saga, we originally planned a 350 attendee event based on the Fall event in San Antonio with 250 attendees; however demand for this event has… Read more »
More Open Compute Project Videos from OpenStack team
Here are some more videos from the Open Compute event at Facebook… Facebook’s Open Compute Launch, April 7th, 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo. Facebook’s Open Compute Launch, April 7th, 2011 from OpenStack on Vimeo.
OpenStack Developer Activity Weekly Review (April 9- 15)
Many people have asked for more insight into the developer activities for OpenStack as the large number of code changes and proposals make it difficult to monitor everything happening. In hopes of exposing more of the developer activities, I plan to post a weekly or biweekly blog post on the latest development activities. If you… Read more »
Community Weekly Newsletter (April 9 – 15)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – April 15, 2011 This weekly newsletter is a way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis. If you would like to add content to a weekly update or have an idea about this newsletter, please email [email protected]. Todd Willey – On Break from… Read more »
OpenStack Announces Cactus Release
With the availability of the Cactus release of OpenStack today the momentum and progress of the project continues to grow. A tremendous amount of effort and contribution from the large, and growing, community has added significant features, fixed a lot of bugs, and debated and discussed many technical issues. I am impressed with the progress… Read more »
What to expect from the Conference and Design Summit
In less than two weeks now, the community around OpenStack will gather in Santa Clara for two co-hosted events: the OpenStack conference and the Diablo Design Summit. In this post I’ll explain what attendees should expect from both, and give some precisions on how the Design Summit will be run. OpenStack Conference The OpenStack conference… Read more »
Hiring a Community Manager Summer Intern
Good news to all you community manager types still in college looking for real-world, hands-on experience, I am looking for a summer intern to assist me in various aspects of the open source OpenStack community. The position is in Austin, TX and I don’t have funding for housing so the candidate must either live in… Read more »