Open Stack

OpenStack Northwest User Group Meetup in Portland

Wednesday Jan 8, 2014 @ 6:00PM PDT

Jama Software (South) 334 NW 11th Ave, Portland, OR

http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Northwest/

Some of the core contributors, developers and implementers of OpenStack
<http://www.openstack.org> are flying over to Portland to bring you the
latest and greatest in Cloud storage. And generous sponsors are buying us
dinner and beer. This meetup is quickly growing to be one of the most
interesting events in the Northwest for those wanting to stay on top of
advancement in the future of computing. 

Meetup Agenda

6:00 - 6:30 - Check in, pizza, beer and networking


6:30 - 7:00 - Introduction, OpenStack and your career - Al Kari (DetaCloud
<http://www.detacloud.com> )

Accelerate your career and increase your value to your current or potential
employers. Learn about shortcuts to quickly acquire some of the hottest
skills in Cloud computing.

7:00 - 7:45 - OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) - Mike Perez (DreamHost
<http://www.dreamhost.com> )

Today there are many different storage solutions to choose from. It can be
overwhelming from a cloud provider's perspective to offer many options for
their users, let alone provide a consistent set of tools with each vendor
offering their own interface.
The OpenStack Block Storage project Cinder provides an API to talk to many
different vendor solutions, in which other applications or OpenStack
programs can talk to.
We'll first examine the difference between block and object storage. That'll
lead us into having an introduction to Cinder, and an opportunity to review
the architecture, vendor driver plugin model, current features, and upcoming
features for the IceHouse release. 


7:45 - 8:15 - OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) - Richard Raseley (for
SwiftStack <http://www.swiftstack.com> )

This presentation will provide an overview of the OpenStack object storage
platform "Swift", its history, contributors, example use cases, and features

8:15 - 8:45 - EMC and OpenStack - Jeremy Keen - (EMC <http://www.emc.com> )

As a Corporate Sponsor of OpenStack, EMC has contributed Cinder drivers for
VNX, VMAX, and most recently ViPR.  EMC ViPR is a lightweight, software-only
solution that transforms your existing storage environment into a simple,
extensible and open platform, that can deliver fully automated storage
services and realize the full potential of the Software-Defined Data Center.
ViPR includes an open source Cinder driver as well as an object storage
engine with Swift and Amazon S3 APIs.  We will dive into the integration of
ViPR and OpenStack and learn about methods for delivering IT-as-a-Service
while avoiding storage vendor lock-in.

8:45 - 9:00 - OPEN MIKE (YOU)

Working on an interesting project, or have an idea to share with the group?
Maybe you have a question or an announcement to make. Here's your chance.

About the speakers:

Al Kari - After 6 years of leading Cloud Computing services at Dell, Al
Co-Founded DetaCloud to advocate for building the future of Open Cloud. He
is a standing member in the Cloud Advisory Council, the Linux Professional
Institute and the OpenStack Foundation

Mike Perez is a Core developer of the OpenStack Block Storage project Cinder
and Senior Software Engineer at DreamHost. His primary responsibilities are
contributing Cinder, and managing the storage needs of DreamHost's public
cloud DreamCompute. He has written v2 of Cinder's API, and is currently
working on v3

Richard Raseley is an Infrastructure and Tooling Engineer at Puppet Labs and
a standing member of the OpenStack Foundation. Prior to joining Puppet,
Richard worked as a Systems Engineer with Concur Technologies, where h
deploy a near petabyte-scale distributed object store based upon OpenStack
Swift

Jeremy Keen over the last 3 years at EMC as a Systems Engineer, Jeremy has
designed hybrid and private cloud solutions for businesses in the Pacific
Northwest.  He now specializes in software-defined-storage at EMC including
the recently launched ViPR an open, extensible software-only solution that
includes deep integration with OpenStack Cinder and Swift.

Special thanks to our sponsors Jama Software for providing the facilities,
beverages and beer, and to ProFocus for the pizza and door prizes.

Follow @DetaCloud and #OSNW on Twitter for livestream/recording links.

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