Posts By: Stephen Spector

Hiring a Community Manager Summer Intern

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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 »

OpenStack Participating Company Midokura Raises 1.3 Million US

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As many of the participating companies in the OpenStack ecosystem are startups, it is great to see important milestones reached. As of today, Midokura, a pioneer in the network virtualization space providing cloud-enabling technologies for both public and private clouds, has announced the raising of 1.3 million USD in seed-funding. The complete announcement is at… Read more »

OpenStack Cactus Webinar

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UPDATE: This webinar has been rescheduled to Thursday April 21st at 4pm EST. Please register at https://cc.readytalk.com/r/kdi85356wy As part of a new community project, the OpenStack Webinar Series, I am pleased to announce the OpenStack Cactus Webinar for April 19th from 3:00 – 4:00 pm CST. This Webinar will cover the new features implemented in… Read more »

Nati Shalom – GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained

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Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces posted a blog today, “GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained.” From the post, One of the major concerns of many IT organizations is cloud vendor lock-in. This concern was expressed recently in “Banks fear cloud vendor lock-in,” from IT Wire: The onset of cloud computing gives vendors the chance to lock customers in to… Read more »