Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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The Open Open Open Cloud

The combination of OpenStack and OpenPower servers allows a truly open cloud from OpenStack at the top to the open chip architecture at the bottom. This presentation will describe how the marriage of open technologies such as OpenStack, OpenStack-Ansible, Ceph, ceph ansible, Ubuntu, and OpenPower servers allow you to set up a cloud stack that is truly open at every layer of the stack from software to server design.


What can I expect to learn?

The combination of OpenStack and OpenPower servers allows a truly open cloud from OpenStack at the top to the open chip architecture at the bottom. This presentation will describe how the marriage of open technologies such as OpenStack, OpenStack-Ansible, Ceph, ceph ansible, Ubuntu, and OpenPower servers allow you to set up a cloud stack that is truly open at every layer of the stack from software to server design.

Wednesday, May 10, 2:20pm-2:30pm (6:20pm - 6:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
IBM
Sam is a software engineer at IBM with experience in various OpenStack projects including OpenStack-Ansible Nova, Glance, and Cinder.  His current focus is open software defined storage solutions including OpenStack Swift and Ceph on OpenPower systems. FULL PROFILE
IBM
Kyle Henderson is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM with over 25 years of software development experience.  He has led and contributed to many development projects including POSIX compliant file systems, an LDAP server / client, web services and grid computing toolkits. For about the last ten years he's been involved in projects related to virtualization.  They include building tools... FULL PROFILE
Rackspace
Major Hayden builds OpenStack clouds as a Principal Architect at Rackspace. Major is a core developer in the OpenStack-Ansible project with a focus on improving information security in OpenStack deployments.  He holds multiple Red Hat and Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) certifications and has written extensively about securing virtualized Linux environments. Outside of... FULL PROFILE