Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Why Betfair Chose OpenStack - the Road to Their Production Private Cloud.

The partnership of Betfair, Redhat and Nuage Networks present the journey from RFP to Production for Betfair's prive cloud.  This 12 month programme has delivered a fully automated, scalable, resillient OpenStack solution.

Betfair's vision was to deliver an API-driven infrastructure encompassing compute, storage, network and application delivery.  This had to be capable of handling the high transactional load of Betfair's day-to-day operations (circa 2.7Bn API calls, 120M daily transactions).

This presentation, delivered by all three partners, walks you through the stages of the programme - from benefits requirements, vendor selection, project design and implementation.

This presentation will be of great use to anyone considering, or having recently started their own OpenStack implementation with a view of their next generation infrastructure as code.


What can I expect to learn?

This is a prime chance to benefit from the lessons learnt and overall experience from a large, innovative project delivering a significant advantage in capability.  Betfair operates a large estate and at considerable scale - as such the project was technically challenging and should provide interest to any attendees.

There is particular value to be had from understanding the drivers that led Betfair to chose an OpenStack based solutioin over a more traditional solution.

Atendees will be invited to ask questions to either/all of the 3 partners.

Thursday, April 28, 9:00am-9:40am (2:00pm - 2:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Global Head of Reliability and Operations
Richard has extensive experience working in fast paced, agile technology businesses with multinational teams.  He most enjoys business change projects and being given problem areas to fix.  He draws on experience from his Imperial College London MBA as well as training in SixSigma, Prince2 and Agile methodologies to help deliver them. FULL PROFILE
Sales Director, EMEA Large Enterprise
Managing Nuage Networks key clients in the UK and accross Europe. FULL PROFILE
UK&I Head of Cloud and Virtualisation
Matt heads up the commercial Cloud and virtualisation team for Red Hat in the UK. He is responsible for driving Cloud and Virtualisation adoption across the UK.The products that are within his remit are Red Hat's Openstack, Openshift, Cloudforms and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation solutions.He has responsibility for growing an emerging cloud solution set across all industries... FULL PROFILE
Mr
Stephen is a director of technology at PaddyPowerBetfair. He has over 15 years experience of leading technical teams and driving continuous improvement, achieved by making innovations in working practices and utilizing his “common sense” approach to solving business problems.     This excellent track record is driven by Stephen's belief in quality at speed. He achieves... FULL PROFILE