Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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


OpenStack + Open Compute Project == Best of Breed Clouds

The Open Compute Project (OCP -- opencompute.org) is working towards the open source equivalent of data center hardware including racks, servers, switches, and storage.  Specifically, they have created and published free-to-use hardware designs and an ecosystem of hardware partners that product the reference designs.  OCP designs have been heavily optimized to reduce purchase (removing redundant components) and operating prices (e.g., all DC internal power, simplified FRU structure) and deployed in production at scale by many companies including Facebook.

Bringing Open Compute hardware together with OpenStack software is a natural fit, forming a combination that is open from top to bottom.

 


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn about the details of an "Open Pod" architecture -- an OpenStack Pod on OCP Infrastructure.  

Additionally speakers will share their experience deploying OpenStack at a range of scales - from half-rack setups to multi-rack deployments in production data centers.

Wednesday, April 27, 1:50pm-2:30pm (6:50pm - 7:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Big Switch Networks
Rob serves as the CTO for Big Switch Networks, where he spends his time internally leading software architecture and externally evangelizing SDN to customers and partners. Rob is an active contributor to open source projects such as Switch Light and Floodlight® as well as the Open Compute Project. Rob holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. FULL PROFILE
Director, Big Switch Labs
Sunit heads Product Marketing at Big Switch Networks. He is also responsible for Big Switch Labs - a virtualized online portal to showcase and experiment with all things Software Defined.  He has over 15 years of experience in the tech industry in product management, strategy and engineering roles. Sunit has been closely involved with OpenStack Neutron efforts at Big Switch. FULL PROFILE