Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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Three’s Company: Are You Jack, Janet, or Chrissy? How Teams Can Work Together to Create Better OpenStack Solutions

Bringing a third partner to a two partner OpenStack solution is always a challenge.  When Dell realized a need to extend the Dell Red Hat OpenStack Cloud Solution to bring in a “highly available overlay network provider", they turned to Midokura Enterprise MidoNet. How did Dell and Red Hat then bring Midokura to the table, encouraging all the different teams to work towards one single goal, to produce a “joint multi-partner solution" and deliver the solution in a timely fashion?

Cross-functional teams are the new norm when building OpenStack solutions, be it Enterprise IT deployment strategists or best-of-breed solution providers. We will hear the perspectives seen from each team on how they responded to this task and what they saw as challenges.

This will be an interactive session and we will ask those in the audience to relate their experiences. Bring your tiger team stories and let's learn how everyone can build better solutions to leverage the unique skill sets of each contributor!


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will be given a chance to see into how our three companies came together to produce an OpenStack Solution and then we will have an opportunity to turn to the floor for audience experiences in what they have used to be successful in aligning their corporate goals to others.

Monday, April 25, 2:00pm-2:40pm (7:00pm - 7:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Midokura
Cynthia is the Director of Customer Success at Midokura. Her background in networking spans Data Center, Telecommunications, and Campus/Enterprise solutions. She is a frequent speaker at cloud conferences such as OpenStack Summits, OpenStack meetups and the IT Cloud Computing Conference (IC3). Cynthia has earned a number of professional certifications, including: Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing... FULL PROFILE
Dell Technical Staff - Cloud Architect
Randy Perryman is a principle architect of Service Provider Cloud Platform Engineering at Dell EMC.  He started working with OpenStack in the Cactus release time frame and attended his first Summit in 2011 in Boston. Randy has published several OpenStack Reference Architectures, the first based on Diablo and the latest based on Newton with NFV features.  He has also contributed in the... FULL PROFILE
Manager, Software Engineering
Mike is an engineering manager at Red Hat.  Mike brings a background in both software engineering and IT operations with a particular interest in continuous integration.  Mike currently enjoys a role working within a variety of software communities to enable great software! FULL PROFILE