Austin
April 25-29, 2016

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Upgrading OpenStack? Sit With Our Panel of Experts to Hear Their Stories
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Upgrading OpenStack requires selecting the right strategy, thorough planning and accurate implementation to minimize the downtime of your OpenStack environment. There are many important steps and processes our panel of experts will recommend and share for planning your next OpenStack upgrade. Sit with the experts from Cisco, Intel, HP, Comcast and VMWare to discuss this topic in depth.

 

This panel discussion will include:

* Specific issues we ran into during the upgrade process 

* The solutions to the problems and how we overcame the roadblocks 

* Our upgrade success stories 

* The tools we used to perform the upgrades

 

Panel:

* Steven Dake (Cisco, Kolla PTL) 

* Michal Jastrzebski (Intel, OSIC) 

* Tom Howley (HPE) 

* Sidharth Surana (VMware) 

* Basil Baby (Comcast) 

* Jan Grant (HPE)

* Charles Bitter as moderator (Comcast)

Tuesday, April 26, 4:40pm-5:20pm (9:40pm - 10:20pm UTC)
Austin Convention Center - Level 1 - Ballroom A
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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Tags: Architect Ops Enterprise CxO
Steven Dake
Co-Founder and CEO
Steve has been involved in open source for the entirety of his career. Steve served as an elected member of the board of directions of the OpenStack foundation, invented OpenStack Kolla, invented OpenStack Heat, designed and co-led OpenStack Magnum, invented the Corosync cluster engine, and served as a working group leader within the Istio community. Steve is now leading the next generation of... FULL PROFILE
Michał Jastrzębski
Intel Corporation
Michal is a senior cloud software engineer at Intel Corporation and one of tech leads of Openstack Innovation Center. Michal is making Openstack better since Grizzly. Michal is a Kolla core reviewer since the Liberty cycle and serves as Kolla PTL for Ocata and Pike releases. FULL PROFILE
Tom Howley
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Tom is the Tech Lead for the HOS (Helion OpenStack) lifecycle management component, see https://github.com/hpe-helion-os. Prior to this, Tom worked on HP's Public Cloud, initially working on the block storage solution and later focussing on HA across the cloud. Before entering the world of cloud, Tom worked in data analytics in the telecom sector and also co-founded a startup... FULL PROFILE
Jan Grant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
jan's worked for HPE on Openstack for a few years: initially on Nova, then TripleO, and now on HPE's Helion system - particularly on the tooling around deployment and upgrade, FULL PROFILE
Sidharth Surana
VMware
Sidharth Surana is a Staff Engineer at VMware Inc. developing the VMware Integrated OpenStack product. He has been instrumental in design/implement various features for the VIO product. Few of the key features include OpenStack upgrade, patching for the product. FULL PROFILE
Basil Baby
Comcast
Basil Baby is a cloud Engineer at Comcast. He has involved in the architecture and integration of OpenStack to Comcast's infrastructure. Besides Openstack, interest areas include Python, Linux and networking. FULL PROFILE
Charles Bitter
Comcast
Charles Bitter is a Senior Principal Engineer at Comcast, who enjoys working on large-scale open-source projects. Charles has been at Comcast for over 6 years and has been involved with OpenStack since 2015. Since working on OpenStack, he has worked on projects such as: CI/CD, keystone, neutron, and heat. Additionally, Charles provides technical leadership of Comcast’s OpenStack... FULL PROFILE