Tag: Design Summit
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Gettin’ the scoop on the OpenStack Design Summit
Earlier this week, I attended the first two days of the OpenStack Design Summit out in Santa Clara, CA. Before I took off I grabbed sometime with Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders and the leader of Rackpace’s OpenStack efforts. I got Jim’s thoughts on how the summit was going, how the project was…
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Eucalyptus back at OpenStack Design Summit
At the last OpenStack design summit, I sat down with Eucalyptus co-founder Graziano Obertelli and got his thoughts on the effort. This morning I bumped into a now clean-shaven Graziano and thought Id get his input on this week’s summit. Some of the ground Graziano covers: What Graziano’s goals are for this weeks OpenStack summit…
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Forrester’s James Staten on OpenStack
Earlier today the OpenStack Design Summit kicked off here at the Hyatt in Santa Clara. This four day event is bringing together developers, users and business people to discuss OpenStack and design its future. Among this morning’s attendees was James Staten Forrester Research’s cloud guru. I grabbed James at the first break and got his…
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Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark
Yesterday, near the end of day two of the OpenStack design summit, I caught up with Rick Clark, chief architect of the OpenStack platform. I wanted to get Rick’s thought’s on how the four-month old open source cloud computing project and the summit were going. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the ground…
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Accenture’s thoughts on the OpenStack Cloud Platform
Another of yesterday’s featured speakers at the OpenStack design summit was Accenture partner, Joe Tobolski. Joe is part of Accenture labs which looks at emerging technologies and he is responsible for assets and architecture as part of Accenture’s global cloud program. I sat down with Joe in the cafe downstairs and got his thoughts on…
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Talking to NASA CTO about OpenStack Cloud Platform
One of the featured speakers during the kick off of the OpenStack design summit yesterday was NASA CTO of IT, Chris Kemp. OpenStack is an open source cloud platform and the compute side of the project is based on code from NASA’s Nebula cloud. I got some time with Chris and learned about NASA’s involvement…
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What’s happening — A Dell / OpenStack Update
A couple of days ago Bret Piatt, who handles Technical Alliances for OpenStack, came up to Austin to have further discussion with our team’s software engineers around OpenStack. If you’re not familiar with OpenStack, it is an open source cloud platform founded on contributed code from Rackspace and NASA’s Nebula cloud. The project was kicked…