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 »
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Waiting list for the Design Summit
The first 200 open seats for the Essex Design Summit were registered in less than 9 days. This event, geared towards existing and prospective OpenStack developers, is separate from the OpenStack Conference and has a more limited capacity. For the last 50 seats, the Design Summit organization committee needs to give priority to OpenStack core… 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 »
Community Weekly Review (August 19-26)
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 Registration Open for OpenStack Design… 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 »
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 »
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 »
OpenStack Governance Elections – Nomination Process
The OpenStack Governance Elections Nominations are open from August 10, 2011 through August 24, 2011 at Noon CST. The process will follow the same format as last time with Etherpads as well as the opportunity for approved nominees to highlight information on themselves. If you have any questions on the process or eligibility, please contact… Read more »
Community Weekly Newsletter (July 29 – August 5)
OpenStack Community Newsletter – August 5, 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]. Piston OpenStack Hackathon – Who is… Read more »