April 2014 - Marketing - lists.openinfra.dev

[OpenStack Marketing] OpenStack Community Meetings Next Week
by Margaret Callard 25 Apr '14

25 Apr '14

Hi everyone, I wanted to update you on two community meetings next week. Hope everyone is gearing up for the Summit. Almost there. See you in Atlanta. Analyst Relations Team Meeting - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 3 p.m. Central - Agenda: Review Analyst Day Agenda - Who should attend: anyone involved/interested in industry analyst activities for OpenStack in the community - Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/CZRF2H9M Open Content Team Meeting - Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 10 a.m. Central - Agenda: Review Icehouse and Discuss Initial Plans for Paris - Who should attend: anyone that wants to contribute content ideas/resources back to the OpenStack community, 5 hours/month commitment requested. - Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/KBXX68EV This information is also updated on the OpenStack wiki with slides and/or recordings post-meeting: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/Marketing Thanks, Margie

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[OpenStack Marketing] OpenStack Speaking Opportunities Available at Industry Events
by Kathy Cacciatore 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

These excellent vendor-neutral OpenStack speaking opportunities are available. Please contact me at kathyc(a)openstack.org if interested. The SDN Conference in June is especially pressing. Thank you. [http://www.whitehallmedia.co.uk/sdn/] Software Defined Networking, June 17, London. There are 1-2 sessions available. This is the 2nd annual conference. Martin Gerhard Loschwitz spoke at the inaugural event in Dec. 2013. See the event summary video on the home page for an interview with Martin and a visual of the audience size. The intended attendees are SDN, OpenFlow and network virtualization decision makers and influencers. Session suggestions: share insights on the pressing issues in SDN, or better yet – how you are deploying the technology yourself. [http://softwaredefined-enterprise.com/] Software Defined Enterprise World Forum, Sept 10-11, London. Up to 3 sessions are available for OpenStack topics. The audience will be 350+ heads of IT, CIO, Data Centre managers and engineers from enterprise companies and Telcos in the UK, Europe the US. From decision makers to those involved with the nitty gritty details of SDx. Up to 3 sessions are available for OpenStack topics. They are especially looking for interactive sessions and offer these formats: hands-on workshops fireside chats Q&A innovation jams Example topics: Getting to grips with SDN in the enterprise: Where in the SDN journey is your organisation? Weighing up the benefits of Software Defined Networks: Reducing CAPEX and OPEX through SDN What are the requirements to enable Software Defined Networks? Data Centre Architectures of the future: Moving towards new models [https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14] USENIX LISA, Seattle, Nov 9-14 (week after Paris Summit). Audience is 1,100 Large Installation System Admins. A daytime breakout or evening BoF session is available for a sysadmin or operator responsible for a medium-large OpenStack production cloud in an Enterprise. This was a fantastic event in 2013; OpenStack is increasing participation this year. -- Regards, Kathy Cacciatore OpenStack Industry Event Planner 1-512-970-2807 (mobile) Part time: Monday - Thursday, 9am - 2pm US CT kathyc(a)openstack.org

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[OpenStack Marketing] Icehouse Release Materials
by Lauren Sell 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hi everyone, The Icehouse release is out, and the press release is live. Please retweet @openstack and promote the URL OpenStack.org/Icehouse. Congratulations and thanks to all who contributed. Early Press Coverage: OpenStack Icehouse release takes on enterprise upgrade concerns — GigaOm OpenStack Icehouse Features a Trove of Open-Source Cloud Updates — eWeek To Build Cloud-Services, Some Companies Adopt OpenStack — The Wall Street Journal OpenStack’s latest Icehouse release hits the streets — Network World OpenStack has wooed developers for years, now it’s time to charm users — GigaOm OpenStack Winning Business Converts — CIO Journal Helpful Materials: Icehouse Landing Page Press release Slide deck Technical Release Notes and documentation Icehouse Dashboard demo video Icehouse Graphic Key Stats: Over 1,200 contributors to Icehouse; a 32% increase from Havana release More than 120 organizations employed contributors to the Icehouse release Nearly 350 new features across the platform and more than 2,900 bug fixes, with an overall focus on testing, maturity and stability Dashboard now supports 16 languages including Serbian, Hindi, and German released in Icehouse. The Internationalization team translated nearly 700,000 words during the Icehouse cycle. Contributor stats: http://activity.openstack.org/dash/releases/index.html?data_dir=data/icehou… (Note: Icehouse stats include programs in incubation and the integrated release.) Release Highlights: Overall focus on stability and maturity for the integrated release, with new features like new rolling upgrades and better integration of services across the platform Raising the bar on testing for a consistent user experience across drivers, specifically storage platforms Big updates for Object Storage, including discoverability and a new replication process called s-sync that improves performance New Block Storage feature allowing for better performance management in heterogeneous environments First iteration of federated authentication allows users to access private and public OpenStack clouds with the same credentials The Database Service is now part of the integrated release, which allows users to manage relational database services in an OpenStack environment Analyst & User Quotes “OpenStack has crossed the threshold and will become another de facto IaaS standard before the end of the year, when OpenStack compatibility will be a must, not a nice-to-have.” — Source: Forrester Research, Inc., State Of Cloud Platform Standards: Q1 2014, March 2014 “We host several applications in our OpenStack environment. So, clearly, we’re heavily vested in OpenStack. Icehouse gives us several new capabilities that will make a big difference, including scheduler improvements and instance creation and deletion. Each OpenStack release makes impressive gains in maturity. It’s a march of progress that gives us confidence in the platform and the community.” — Mike Wilson, senior systems architect at Bluehost “Cloud computing has become strategic to our business by enabling our developers to move faster and providing a scalable infrastructure to deliver our content services. By using OpenStack, we are not only choosing a cloud platform, but a community in which we have the ability to influence the software roadmap, share knowledge among operators and build even stronger relationships with our technology vendors who are supporting the platform.” — Andrew Mitry, senior manager of platform infrastructure at Comcast Webinar Today Today at 11 am PDT, Mark Collier will host a webinar to discuss icehouse with Das Kamhout of Intel and Troy Toman of Rackspace, both of whom have experience operating OpenStack clouds. They will explain what’s new in the Icehouse release and how the voice of the user is coming through loud and clear in our maturing platform. OpenStack Summit The next OpenStack Summit will take place in Atlanta, May 12-16. Join us to learn more about how organizations are using OpenStack and the vibrant ecosystem behind it. Thanks, Lauren

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[OpenStack Marketing] Register for the Icehouse Webinar/Thursday
by Margaret Callard 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi everyone, Icehouse is on its way. We're excited to share the news of this release with you. Please register and promote our webinar this Thursday, April 17: http://bit.ly/RmVsnO OpenStack Icehouse Release Update Mark Collier, COO, OpenStack Foundation; Troy Toman, Cloud Architect, Rackspace; Das Kamhout, IT Principal Engineer, Intel Apr 17 2014 11 a.m. Pacific/ 2:00 pm EasternUnited States - Chicago45 mins Join Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, Troy Toman, Cloud Architect at Rackspace and Das Kamhout, IT Principal Engineer at Intel, to discuss updates on Icehouse, the latest OpenStack software release, available on Thursday, April 17. OpenStack Icehouse is the ninth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds. Mark will also review the next OpenStack Summit agenda taking place in Atlanta, Georgia May 12-16, 2014 at the Georgia World Conference Center. This webinar will cover: - The latest features and trends from OpenStack Icehouse - Updated growth metrics from the OpenStack community - Opportunities to learn more at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta May 12-16, 2014 Thank you, Margie ____________________ Margie Callard OpenStack Foundation margie(a)openstack.org

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[OpenStack Marketing] Can you help with this
by Lori Cohen 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi, I wanted to introduce my company, Tesora. We are activity working on the Trove project, leveraging our deep database experience to increase the functionality of database as a service on OpenStack. As part of this effort, we are trying to gather information on how developers are using databases with OpenStack. We developed a short survey that we would appreciate if you could help us to promote. We intend to release the results at the OpenStack Summit with an infographic and white paper. Here is a link you can use. http://svy.mk/1ehTsqE Thanks so much, Lori Lori Cohen | Marketing [Tesora]<http://tesora.com/> Direct: 617.922.7577 Check out our blog ><http://www.tesora.com/blog> Twitter <https://twitter.com/tesoracorp> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/tesoracorp> | Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/company/parelastic> | Google+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/117928183275955181789/posts>

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[OpenStack Marketing] Open Meetings - Icehouse Preview
by Lauren Sell 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Hi everyone, Just a reminder that we’re meeting twice this week to preview the Icehouse release, which is coming April 17th. Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at 23:00 UTC Marketing Team Meeting Topic: Icehouse Release (round 1) Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/69X6CRJJ Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 16:00 UTC Marketing Team Meeting Topic: Icehouse Release (round 2) Register: http://openstack.enterthemeeting.com/m/WUCCVC7Z We’ll cover the same content in both meetings, but are just trying to accommodate more time zones. If you are unable to join us, we’ll be posting the slides and recording tomorrow. Best, Lauren

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