Post by Mark Atwood, Director of OpenSource Engineering for HP Cloud The need for well understood intra-application messaging was one of the signs that new application design patterns beyond just the LAMP stack were needed. The need for an OpenStack Messaging Service was recognized by the San Diego Grizzly Summit, and in an unconference track… Read more »
Posts By: Stephen Spector
OpenStack Conference Registration – Are you Coming?
The OpenStack community is once again meeting in less than a month in Boston, MA to educate, discuss, and plan for the future of cloud computing. The community is asking for cloud computing enthusiasts, open source gurus, IT leaders, and technologists to take part in our open discussion. The event is held at the Boston… Read more »
Rackspace Running OpenStack Compute Today for Select Customers, Discusses Broader Rollout Plans
Lew Moorman, President of the Rackspace Cloud, recently discussed the state of Rackspace’s OpenStack plans in a blog post. In addition to running OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) for over a year to power their cloud, Rackspace is now running OpenStack Compute (code named Nova) for select customers. Head over to the Rackspace Cloud… Read more »
OpenStack Conference – Agenda Highlights
The Program Committee is in its final stages of crafting the OpenStack Conference agenda and I wanted to share some highlights from the agenda to get you ready for next week’s formal agenda announcement… Highlights: Keynote Speakers from HP, Dell, Nebula, Canonical, NetApp, and NTT User Case Studies from CERN and Acens Technologies (more being… Read more »
OpenStack Events in September
The OpenStack community has two confirmed events next month to book on your calendars (and a third in final confirmation)… Paris, France OpenStack in Action! September 21, 2011 from 8:30 am – 5:30 pm Current Sponsors: Enovance, UShareSoft, Canonical, Rackspace, and OW2 Event Registration: https://openstackinaction.eventbrite.com/ Boston, MA … Read more »
OpenStack Governance Elections – Voting Process
This Wednesday at Noon CST, the OpenStack Governance Elections Nominations process will close and all approved candidates will be entered into the Election Tool. Elections will run from August 25 – September 4 at Noon CST. Elections The following four separate votes will be conducted during this election cycle: NOVA Project Team Lead (1 Position)… Read more »
Community Weekly Review (August 12 – 19)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 19, 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]. HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Governance Nominations – http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees… Read more »
Evolving Roles, Welcome Stefano Maffulli to the Community
The explosion of OpenStack over the past year has once again highlighted the significant impact that an open source community can have on an industry. Within a single year, over 100 participating companies and 1,300 community members have joined together to create the de-facto open source cloud computing standard. With this enormous growth comes a… Read more »
Developer Weekly (August 12)
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 (August 5-12)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 12, 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]. HIGHLIGHTS OpenStack Governance Nominations – http://etherpad.openstack.org/Fall2011-Nominees… Read more »