OpenStack at FOSDEM 2014

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FOSDEM 2014 is over and it was a great event for OpenStack in Europe. We had a booth wonderfully staffed by Association des Utilisateurs Francophones d’OpenStack, distributed lots of gratis tshirts, flyers, met hackers with lots interesting questions about using OpenStack and developing it. Thierry Carrez spoke twice, about the burgeoning OpenStack jobs market and… Read more »

OpenStack Community Pavilion at Gartner Data Center Conference

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The Gartner Data Center Conference is coming up December 9-12 in Las Vegas, and OpenStack is proud to be a sponsor alongside 35+ companies from the OpenStack ecosystem. We are excited to host the OpenStack Community Pavilion, showcasing OpenStack solutions and services from Cloud Cruiser, Mirantis, Nebula, Puppet Labs, Rackspace, SaltStack, Scalr, and SolidFire. You… Read more »

First meeting of OpenStack Venezuela

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The Venezuelan OpenStack community had its first full day meeting on August 24 in Caracas and it was a big success.  Nelson Perez, gave a general introduction to  virtualization talking about what it is, why it’s useful and finally an overview of  hypervisors.  Enrique Femin then talked about cloud computing giving general definitions, principles and… Read more »

OpenStack at EuropPython 2013

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OpenStack was well represented at the EuropPython conference in Florence this year. We had a full-day OpenStack track on Tuesday and number of related talks spread across the week. Furthermore, 3 platinum members of the OpenStack Foundation — HP, Rackspace and Red Hat — sponsored the event. The OpenStack track consisted of 4 talks in… Read more »

Vietnam OpenStack Community 2nd Meeting

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Following the success of the first Vietnam OpenStack Community (VietOpenStack) meetup, the second meeting has been held at Marcel Dassault amphitheater, Francophone Institute for Informatics (IFI-VNU) on 4th January, 2013. There were approx. 50 people attending this event. We warmly welcomed: Representatives from IT Business Management level: Mr. Nguyen Huc Quoc – Director of e-government… Read more »

1st Swiss OpenStack User Group

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The first Swiss OpenStack user meeting  took place on 15th November 2012 at ETH in Zurich. The meeting was a combination of the Swiss OpenStack user group along with the zhgeeks regular meeting. Around 90 people attended which provided for a lively atmosphere with a good opportunity for audience interaction and participation. Photos are here. Discussions continued well on… Read more »

Learn More About VMware’s Involvement with OpenStack at the Summit

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OpenStack Summit Event 2012 October 15-18 Learn More About VMware’s Involvement with OpenStack at the Following Sessions Monday (11:00am – 11:40am Oxford) True Hybrid Clouds: Extending OpenStack with Cloud Foundry John Purrier (AppFog) Tuesday (2:40pm – 3:20pm Manchester E) OpenStack Networking (Quantum) Project Update Dan Wendlandt (VMware) Wednesday (9:30am – 10:00am Grand Ballroom) Running the… Read more »