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OpenStack Monthly Marketing Bulletin

April 2, 2013
Please check out the latest OpenStack marketing bulletin with information, news and events to keep you up-to-date on community happenings.

Updates & Calls to Action


The Grizzly release is coming Thursday, April 4. Keep reading for lots of great info and stats, and please help us promote the release on Thursday!
The OpenStack Summit agenda is now live! Users Best Buy, Bloomberg, Cisco WebEx, CERN, Cloudup, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, eNovance, HP, IBS Datafort, NeCTAR, NSA, PayPal, Rackspace and Samsung will be speaking at the Summit.
Register for the OpenStack Summit (or redeem your speaker/sponsor codes) no later than April 7. Starting April 8, the codes will no longer be valid and registration prices will jump to $800! We have more than 2000 registrants and will likely sell out!
OpenStack Day Tokyo, which took place March 12, was a resounding success with more than 700 attendees and 22 sponsors!
OpenStack was a clear hit with the 2500+ attendees at PyCon 2013. Volunteers from Cloudscaling, Red Hat, PLUMgrid, Nexus IS, Riverbed and Rackspace helped staff our constantly busy booth and packed our job board with openings, and the OpenStack Object Storage Developer Sprint was a resounding success.
The buzz around OpenStack among the leading service providers in Europe was undeniable at the World Hosting Days conference in Germany. Kurt Garloff spoke about how Deutsche Telekom has built their TelekomCloud Business Marketplace on OpenStack, and the booth buzzed with activity. Thank you to staffers from Canonical, eNovance, Rackspace and StackOps. 



Highlighted Messages & Stats: Grizzly Edition

Grizzly Release Themes:

Production operations at scale:
Compute Cells & NoDB data layer
LBaaS framework implemented (with ha-proxy reference implementation)
Block Storage Intelligent scheduler
Object Storage quotas & bulk operations
Greater support for and integration with Enterprise Technologies
Strong Hyper-V support
Five new networking plugins
Ten block storage backends
Easier Deployment & Upgrade Path
Improved UI
Tested upgrade path
Backwards compatible dashboard

Key Message: As more organizations are running OpenStack in production, the
community has focused on making it better for deployers and operators.

Proof: Best Buy, Cisco WebEx,Comcast, CERN, HP, NeCTAR, NSA, PayPal, Rackspace and Samsung will be speaking about running OpenStack at the Summit, April 15-18, in Portland, OR.
Proof: Moving from people interested in installation and deployment to operations. New Operations Guide written by seven OpenStack operators with experience running OpenStack in production.

Key Message: Rapid innovation through community growth

Proof: 480 contributors made 7,620 updates in the Grizzly release.
Proof: OpenStack is the center of innovation and the first place technology companies will want to make sure their technology is integrated. There were 5 new networking plugins and 10 total block storage drivers in the Grizzly release.
Proof: Top companies making contributions include Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, HP, Canonical, Nebula, eNovance, Intel, DreamHost

Key Message: Quality and upgradability

Proof: Significant effort put into testing and systems to manage the velocity of contributions and complexity of the code base by the core infrastructure team. - 700 clouds per day being spun up
Proof: Implemented upgrade testing with each commit.
Proof: The Grizzly Dashboard is backwards compatible and can expose features from the Folsom release.

Looking Forward: Havana

Metering (Ceilometer): Central collection for metering/monitoring data
Example: Collect usage information for billing systems
Orchestration (Heat): template-based orchestration engine for OpenStack
Example: Developers define application deployment patterns
Expect an ecosystem to build plugins for LBaaS like we have seen for Networking and Block Storage

Developer growth
Over 480 contributors to Grizzly, a 45% increase from Folsom release
Top Contributors by Employer
Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, HP, Canonical, Nebula, eNovance, Intel, DreamHost
Number of Features
Approximately 230 blueprints completed
Attracting New Plugins & Drivers
5 new networking plugins and 10 total block storage drivers
Patches Merged
7,620
Testing
On average, we deploy a complete OpenStack cloud for testing 700 times per day

Latest News   


IBM will spin up a private cloud service based on OpenStack. -- March 4, 2013
Rackspace announces new OpenCenter dashboard.  -- March 6, 2013
VMware is working on a project that will allow customers to move their on-premise private cloud workloads to public cloud infrastructure -- March 7, 2013
Talkin Cloud: “OpenStack Summit 2013: Five Questions CSPs Must Ask” -- March 8, 2013
Oracle buys private-cloud pioneer Nimbula -- March 13, 2013
SwiftStack gets $6.1m in funding, comes out of stealth with OpenStack-based object storage system -- March 18, 2013
InfoWorld: “OpenStack: Vive la revolution!” -- March 19, 2013
Mirantis open-sources its OpenStack cloud management tools -- March 25, 2013
DataCenterKnowledge: “As Cloud Wars Heat Up, Server OEMs Bet on OpenStack” -- March 26, 2013
Brocade evolves the storage network -- March 26, 2013
GigaOM hosted an OpenStack-themed webinar sponsored by Intel -- March 27, 2013
Welcome to the Mind-Bending World of Cloud-on-Cloud Computing -- April 1, 2013
MapR Partners with Canonical to Ease Ubuntu, OpenStack Deployments -- April 1, 2013
Nebula Builds Cloud Computer for the Masses -- April 2, 2013

Industry & Regional Events


OpenStack DACH Day, May 24, Berlin Fairgrounds: Local community member hastexo co-organized this inaugural event, co-located with LinuxTag 2013.  
OpenStack Israel 2013, May 27, Tel Aviv:  300 OpenStack users, prospective users, ecosystem members and developers are expected at this year’s event, organized by the IGT (Israeli Association of Grid Technologies) and GigaSpaces.  The Call for Speakers is open until April 15.
OpenStack CEE Day, May 29, Budapest:  OpenStack is booming in the Central and Eastern Europe region.  Website is coming soon; contact Marton Kiss at marton.kiss at xemeti.com to participate or attend.
HostingCon 2013, June 17-19, Austin:  OpenStack will sponsor HostingCon for web hosting and cloud service providers as the official t-shirt sponsor and exhibiting in booth #912. If your staff would like to volunteer in our booth, please contact Kathy Cacciatore at kathyc at openstack.org.
GigaOM Structure, June 19-20, San Francisco:  OpenStack will be a Primetime Plus sponsor of this 6th annual event, examining the future of cloud computing and internet infrastructure.  OpenStack will be highly visible with a number of participation points including a 40 minute workshop and main stage video. If you are planning to attend Structure and would like to get involved, please contact Kathy Cacciatore at kathyc at openstack.org.  

Thank you for your enthusiastic response to co-sponsoring OSCON in the OpenStack Pavilion, July 22-26.  All eight spots are committed.  We are also planning a similar Pavilion at the Gartner Data Center Conference, December 9-12 in Las Vegas.  The cost to participate with a pod is $12K and all participants must be approved by Gartner.   Three of four spots are committed, however we can increase our booth to an eight pod Pavilion with enough interest. Please contact Kathy Cacciatore (kathyc at openstack.org) if you would like to be considered.

More speaking opps arranged by the submission deadline (not the event date):


PyCon Australia speaker deadline is this Friday, April 5th! Get your submissions in quickly if you’re interested in speaking. The event is July 5-7th, with a Python on OpenStack mini-conference organized by Aptira on July 5th. The CFP for the mini-conf closes on April 15th - submit your topic at http://aptira.wufoo.com/forms/pyconau2013-openstack-miniconf-call-for-presenters/
The Call for Papers for Cloud Expo East deadline is also this Friday, April 5!  Event is June 10-13th in New York City.
OpenStack Israel 2013.  Join Jonathan Bryce on the agenda on May 27th.  Call for Speakers open until April 15th.
Sponsor speaking opportunities are still available for GlueCon, held May 22-23rd in Broomfield, CO. Get your sponsor requests in asap if interested.
Under the Radar submissions accepted on a rolling basis, but we recommend getting them in soon to be considered.
The call for papers is open until April 26th for Powering the Cloud, a SNW Europe, Virtualization World and Datacenter Technologies co-located conference in Germany. held October 29-30th.
Cloud Connect Chicago open for submissions through April 29th. Event dates are October 21-24th.
O’Reilly Velocity is open for submissions until April 29th. Conference taking place in New York City, October 14-16th.
Usenix LISA 2013 Call for Participation is open until April 30th.  Event is November 3-8th in Washington, D.C.
EuroPython 2013.  The event is July 1-7th in Florence, Italy; please submit your sessions and development sprints soon!  
LinuxCon North America and co-hosted event, CloudOpen North America, accepting submissions until June 17th. Events held together on September 16-18th in New Orleans, LA.

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