{"id":3176,"date":"2012-09-29T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2012-11-26T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T21:28:56","slug":"openstack-china-tour-2-shenzhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-china-tour-2-shenzhen\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack China Tour #2 Shenzhen"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second stop of OpenStack China Tour,\u00a0Shenzhen<\/a>, has been successfully hosted by the COSUG and CSDN on Septempber 22, 2012, which is impressive til now, it was held in 3Wcoffee, a famous Internet theme coffee shop in Shenzen. It is the first time that OpenStack comes to\u00a0Southern\u00a0China, attracted about 80 attendees came in the scene, most of them are Cloud specialists, IT engineers, as well as OpenStack users from Canton, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Hangzhou etc.<\/p>\n

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Speakers\u00a0are coming from Sina\u00a0Corporation, HK Cyberport, Canonical, CIeNET\u00a0Technologies, they shared the vision about OpenStack in the Cloud market in the Greater China, and the newly launched OpenStack Foundation, and the technical view of OpenStack core projects. The interaction and\u00a0communication between speakers and audience is also relatively sufficient, these speakers have done impressive presentations, so that\u00a0you could hear constant applause in the scene.<\/p>\n

Like usual, the first lecture come to Hui Cheng, the lead manager of COSUG and the technical manager of Sina, who initiated the first OpenStack based public cloud in China, Hui also leads his team to become the active corporate contributor which make Sina rank in the top 10 companies<\/a>\u00a0by changeset in Folsom release. He was elected by individual members to be an board member of OpenStack Foundation, which makes him to take more\u00a0responsibility to promote and empower OpenStack in China.\u00a0This time Hui Cheng\u00a0introduced the latest progress of OpenStack Foundation and COSUG, as well as delving a little deeper in the deployment\u00a0of Sina OpenStack production environment and experiences gained from the whole process of building a public cloud based on OpenStack, also explained why Sina choose OpenStack and its underneath of\u00a0KVM and Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Bruce Lok is responsible for\u00a0OpenStack IaaS public cloud platform`s development and operations in the Technology Centre of Hong Kong Cyberport, which has been put into the production environment to use. Bruce is also the manager of the newly created HKOSUG, he is excited to promote of open source cloud software OpenStack to the Hong Kong IDC industry and the community.<\/p>\n

Rongze Zhu, the storage engineer of Sina,\u00a0is one of the\u00a0top 20 contributors<\/a>\u00a0to OpenStack projects, he introduced the status and objectives of Cinder. The Cinder support a lot of back-end storage, including open-source sheepdog, and ceph etc. also including the major storage vendors like IBM, Dell, HP, NetApp storage`s products. Rongze said Cinder’s emergence also gave domestic storage vendors an opportunity to participate in Cloud computing, he introduced how to write a driver, to let Cinder support their own storage products.<\/p>\n

Zhengpeng Hou, the cloud specialist from Canonical,\u00a0introduced the latest deployment tool (juju) of OpenStack in Ubuntu, and a live demonstration showed, Zhengpeng\u00a0emphasized that juju is open source, anyone can use free.<\/p>\n

George Wang, the director of CIeNET\u00a0Technologies, said that because OpenStack is more open than the other Cloud platforms, so he chose to build internal IaaS platform through OpenStack. Cloud platform, engineers of CIeNET\u00a0around the world can reuse resources, they can also have the right to call and release resources, which greatly accelerates the speed of application deployment which meets user’s requirement, also to enhance the utilization of internal resources.<\/p>\n

In the end of this event, audience were giving rounds of warm\u00a0applause while Hui Cheng was having\u00a0a closing address, “We are not afraid of disclosing and sharing our detail network topology and design spec of production deployment, as well as our secret to success,\u00a0because it’s the spirit of Internet and Open-Source, which make us grown up and will lead us stronger and stronger.”<\/p>\n

The China OpenStack Tour @ Shenzhen event has proved to be successful, we received many praise and\u00a0positive\u00a0feedback in Weibo and email, one attendee send us an email saying “You guys have done a good job in arranging this event, thanks for your selfless sharing and wonderful speech, it’s really helpful for our start-up company”.<\/p>\n

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Slides are uploaded to Slideshare:\u00a0http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/HuiCheng2\/tag\/openstackshenzhen<\/a><\/p>\n