Austin
April 25-29, 2016

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Dell - Performance Measuring with SPEC Cloud

SPEC Cloud is a new benchmark standard for measuring and characterizing cloud offerings. What is this tool measuring and assessing? Can the results be trusted? This session will explore in detail the emerging SPEC Cloud standard. Join us and learn how performance of the cloud is measured using SPEC Cloud and how cloud solutions can be optimized to meet the conditions of the Service Level Agreements (SLA) and various performance requirements.

Tuesday, April 26, 2:00pm-2:40pm (7:00pm - 7:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Senior Principal Performance Engineer
Nicholas Wakou is a Senior Principal Performance Engineer with the Dell Open Source Solutions team. Nicholas's role, interest and activity are focused on the characterization and optimization of the performance of Dell Cloud and Big Data solutions. Nicholas has been involved and is engaged with Industry efforts to define and manage performance benchmark standards. He is active on the SPEC... FULL PROFILE
Red Hat Inc.
Douglas Shakshober (Shak) is a senior consulting engineer and director of the Performance Engineering team at Red Hat. His team focuses on characterization, optimization, and performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, KVM virtualization technology, Red Hat Open Stack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Storage Server. The team uses benchmarks and partners with OEMs and ISVs to... FULL PROFILE