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Federating clouds for High Energy Physics

Federating clouds for High Energy Physics High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, such as those of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory, have large demands in storage, compute and networking. Although a large fraction of the resources are provided with high throughput compute clusters, many HEP computing resource providers are transitioning to providing… Continue reading Federating clouds for High Energy Physics

Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise

Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise This all-star panel discussion will focus on the challenges for OpenStack storage and to get direct feedback from users and developers in the audience of their adoption of OpenStack storage. This panel may be recorded as a “Speaking in Tech” podcast which is distributed by Europe’s largest… Continue reading Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise

Openstack Is Doomed And It Is Your Fault

An inspiring walk through the decisions and mistakes that turned Openstack from the people’s revolution into yet another piece of enterprise software laden with technical debt. From early heavy-handed architectural decisions to latter-day corporate power jockeying, this talk aims to steer the audience out of the dark depths beneath the mountains of legacy and into… Continue reading Openstack Is Doomed And It Is Your Fault

MariaDB Galera cluster : Best practices

MariaDB Galera cluster is a synchronous multi-master cluster with many intriguing features like synchronous replication, active-active multi-master topology, automatic node provisioning, etc. This presentation will cover many of the best practices including pitfalls that Database Administrators and DevOps must keep in mind while managing the MariaDB Galera cluster. …Full session details here:

Pets vs Cattle – Meeting Enterprise SLAs in OpenStack

As organizations look to deploy production clouds based on OpenStack, one challenge is to meet service level agreements for business workloads as they move to the cloud. In this session, we will discuss the use of Linux high availability features to create a reliable control plan, coupled with cloud service assurance technologies from Intel to… Continue reading Pets vs Cattle – Meeting Enterprise SLAs in OpenStack

Supporting Virtualized Telco Functions with OpenStack

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is starting to move from PoCs to early commercial stages. This talk discusses technical approaches to supporting telco NFV applications with OpenStack, with a focus on Neutron virtual networking. We work through a service chaining example to drive a discussion of how OpenStack can be used today for NFV and where… Continue reading Supporting Virtualized Telco Functions with OpenStack

OpenStack Swift is Revolutionizing Production at DreamWorks

DreamWorks is rewriting their production animation workflow from file-based to object based with Swift their creative process, starting with how the animation application stores and retrieves data. As an integral part of the Production Asset Management workflow, the team is able to speed up the editorial and workflow process, changing the game in media and… Continue reading OpenStack Swift is Revolutionizing Production at DreamWorks