Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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Ops Log Book: Volkswagen’s Group IT Operations Team’s Adventurous Journey to the Land of OpenStack

Originally, the Group IT Operations team was responsible for managing infrastructure for the Volkswagen Group. The team operates central backend data centers, servers and core services for the Volkswagen Group - following a traditional Enterprise IT approach.

Then, in Q3/2015 the Volkswagen Group IT decided to go with OpenStack for their new internal private cloud project. And the Operations team had an additional task and a new challenge: Bring OpenStack into production and run it.

This was the day when the Group IT Cloud Operations team’s excellent adventure to the land of OpenStack and cloud began.

In this session the team will provide insight into the challenges it faced, the solutions it found, and the day to day issues it experiences with clashes between the classic IT world and the new cloud world.  


What can I expect to learn?
  • Get real life information and practical advice from an operations of a large organization and hear the success stories of the journey to cloud and OpenStack
  • The challenges a traditional IT team may run into with all the shiny new things like DevOps, agile development, cloud paradigms and methodology
  • Advice on how to cope with objections from traditional organizations and processes
  • Lessons learned about changes and (self-) transformations needed to benefit from cloud technologies and methodologies
  • Learn about a successful operational approach regarding OpenStack, the ecosystem around it, and the services & solutions a cloud consumer is interested in when using private IaaS & PaaS from an internal private cloud
Wednesday, October 26, 3:05pm-3:45pm (1:05pm - 1:45pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Cloud Ace GmbH
Gerd Prüßmann is a technical leader and Director Cloud Technology & Strategy at ITConcepts Automotive GmbH. His daily business is to support big enterprises in their journey to the cloud - tackling the challenges of big organizations with open source, cloud & digital transformation. Currently he is working e.g. in enterprise hybrid cloud projects for car manufacturers... FULL PROFILE
Head of Server Operation, Volkswagen AG Wolfsburg
Tilman Schulz studied Mathematics at RWTH Aachen and University of London and earned a PhD in Mathematics of RWTH Aachen. He joined VOLKSWAGEN AG in 2002, where he was first responsible for a PKI project, after which he joined the Unix Team in 2005. Starting in 2011, he assumed responsibility for server operation. At present, Tilman is heavily involved in a VOLKSWAGEN Group private cloud project. FULL PROFILE