Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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Bite off More Than You Can Chew, Then Chew It: OpenStack Consumption Models

While deciding on your OpenStack deployment methodology is important, sometimes the biggest issues arise from customizations that weren't well planned. We'll talk about thinking through when and where to use nonstandard configurations and the operational and business impacts of doing so.  Equally important to your success is the model by which you consume OpenStack.

The topics we will cover include:

  • Consumption Models, Pros and Cons
  • Stability vs. Capability
  • Maintainability vs. Customization
  • Building an OpenStack Practice vs. Consuming OpenStack as a Service
  • Costs, Operational Challenges, and Upstream Considerations associated with each consumption model
  • Approaches to Managed OpenStack

After leaving this session, you'll be prepared to think through the long term ramifications of your deployment and customization decisions on your organization as a whole, and make better decisions as you continue your OpenStack cloud Journey


What can I expect to learn?

The topics we will cover include:

  • Consumption Models, Pros and Cons
  • Stability vs. Capability
  • Maintainability vs. Customization
  • Building an OpenStack Practice vs. Consuming OpenStack as a Service
  • Costs, Operational Challenges, and Upstream Considerations associated with each consumption model
  • Approaches to Managed OpenStack
Wednesday, May 10, 11:00am-11:40am (3:00pm - 3:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat OpenShift
Tyler has spent the last 15 years working with cloud, virtualization, and infrastructure technologies. Prior to joining Red Hat, Tyler was a Technical Advocate for Blue Box/IBM, Principal Technical Marketing Manager and a vSpecialist at EMC. He also worked as a technical consultant for a small infrastructure reseller, a network engineer for a Fortune 1000 company, and also freelanced as an IT... FULL PROFILE
Technical Marketing Engineer
Ken is a Technology Marketing Engineer and Cloud Solutions Architect who is passionate about helping customers with building great solutions leveraging technologies such as VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure and containers. He lives in New York City where he can indulge in his love of great food from all around the world. You can follow Ken on Twitter @kenhuiny. FULL PROFILE
Bluebox
Paul Czarkowski is a Technical Lead at IBM Blue Box where he implements OpenStack for Enterprise clients.  When he isn't coding you can find him baking bread and winning cookoffs around Austin TX. FULL PROFILE