openstack summit
OpenStack Summit: Come for the Beer – Stay For the Cloud
With just over two weeks to go before the OpenStack Summit EU, the Cisco team is starting to get very excited about being back at this awesome event. For those of you who have been to an OpenStack Summit before, you know what I’m talking about. This will be my 11th Summit and I’m just as excited for…
It’s Time to Vote for OpenStack Summit Speakers!
Have you been to the OpenStack Summit lately? If you haven’t, I’ll let you in on a not-at-all-closely-guarded secret: It’s not just about OpenStack anymore. Shoot, you can probably argue that it’s not even primarily about OpenStack anymore. It’s about containers and aut…
Voting for OpenStack Summit Speakers Starts NOW!
Have you ever flown to Sydney, Australia? I haven’t, so I took a moment to look up average flight times from my own home airport (LAX), as well as a few others, and all I can say is “Wow.” Australia is far away. I may not have appreciated just how far previous to this brief little research effort, b…
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 Cis…
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…
Go to Barcelona. Learn stuff. Come back with a clear conscience.
First off I’ll say this: Kudos to you if you’ve managed to convince your boss that you need to go to Barcelona for the upcoming OpenStack Summit. You’re a better negotiator than I. I’ve gone to the past four consecutive Summits, but this one does not look like it’s going to happen. And honestly I th…
The Fun Kind of Voting!
Let’s take a break from presidential politics for just a moment to consider an election that is happening much sooner, and will probably be much more fun for everyone involved. The OpenStack Foundation received over 1,500 submissions for speaking sessions at the upcoming Barcelona Summit, and…
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 organi…
The Power of Cooperation and Imagination
Lew Tucker delivered a keynote at the OpenStack Summit yesterday. Which isn’t actually all that unusual. He’s been up to his neck in OpenStack for quite some time, leading cloud efforts at Cisco, and serving as Vice Chairman of the OpenStack Foundation. Lew spoke yesterday, and for me, the two most…