Highlights of the week OpenStack Grizzly Done: OpenStack’s 7th release, called “Grizzly”, is out: thank you, the over 500 stackers who contributed and the many more who participated in the OpenStack Summit last October where this release was planned. This release, more than any before it, was driven by users who have been running OpenStack… Read more »
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3rd Swiss OpenStack User Group Meetup
Were back again and this time we’ll be holding the next meetup in Bern. Things will start on Wed 24th of April at 1800 and run until 2000. We’d love to hear from you if you are interested in giving a talk related to OpenStack then shout out at the meetup site or simply message @OpenStackCH on twitter…. Read more »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 8-22)
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 »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 8-22)
Highlights of the week Participate in the first OpenStack User Survey! 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… Read more »
Event Report: OpenStack workshop Bangalore, India
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 »
Introducing the OpenStack Operations Guide
Planning to run, or design an OpenStack Cloud? There’s a new book you should take a look at – the OpenStack Operations Guide. Get your free download now at http://docs.openstack.org/ops/! You may have already seen the blog post, We Did It: Zero to Book in Five Days, from Anne Gentle, the OpenStack documentation coordinator who came… Read more »
A Pretty Good Place to Be
One of the best things about my work with OpenStack is the excitement I get when I envision the impact the work we do here today will have on the IT departments of the (very near) future. Imagine a stay in a hospital, where instead of of nurses and med techs coming in every four… Read more »
OpenStack and Friends at SCALE 11x
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
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 »
OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (Mar 1 -8)
Highlights of the week We Wrote an OpenStack Operations Guide in 5 Days! And here it is…the OpenStack Operations Guide. You can read it in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, or print. The electronic formats are free to download so click away. The print version costs $29.90 and all proceeds go to the OpenStack Foundation to support more… Read more »