Wondering who will speak at the OpenStack Summit?

A couple weeks ago I posted about the OpenStack Summit speaker selection process. I shared an interview with one of the track chairs, Gary Kevorkian. I speculated about how much or how little the voting process impacts the choices the organizers make. And I shared a list of talks submitted by my Cisco colleagues. This […]

Set the Agenda at OpenStack Summit Boston

The next OpenStack Summit is just three months away now, and as is their custom, the organizers have once again invited you–the OpenStack Community–to vote on which presentations will and will not be featured at the event. Don’t roll your eyes. Voting for the talks is a legitimate and worthwhile exercise. How worthwhile and how […]

What’s Happening at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona?

The OpenStack Summit is a place to learn and collaborate, discuss and inspire, all in four days every six months. Keynote talks for the first day reflected the international blend of both the operators and users of OpenStack. Our Cisco team agreed that we like the overall message, which feels like, “Here is how we’ve […]

Red Hat Summit and Cisco OpenStack-Based On-Premises Clouds

Next week I will be attending the Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco, along with a number of my Cisco colleagues. I am looking forward to discussing with attendees and Cisco partners the latest cloud trends and specifically their interest in OpenStack, associated use cases and their thoughts about Open Source development in general. The […]

OpenStack Can Be Complicated .. But It Does Not Have To Be

Another debate is over … and I am not referring to the US presidential election … I am referring to the growing maturity of OpenStack and its level of adoption in the marketplace. Over 7,500 people attended the last OpenStack Summit in Austin, TX. The energy at the event was palpable. Various organizations stepped forward […]

Policy-based Service Chaining in OpenStack

The recently concluded OpenStack Austin Summit was a fantastic showcase for the growing maturity and adoption of OpenStack. The evolution of the fundamental infrastructure services for compute, networking, storage, identity together with ancillary services for image management, security, monitoring makes it possible to leverage these building blocks to satisfy interesting use cases. One such use […]

Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack using Ansible

At the recently concluded OpenStack summit in Austin, I was impressed by the amount of interest shown by attendees on containers. Almost all of the container related sessions were packed as customers are now realizing its advantages. By containerizing applications, you are able to virtualize the host operating system. What this means is that you now create […]