Today I had the pleasure of speaking at my local VMUG. While my presentation didn’t have a ton of VMware content, I focused on OpenStack in the enterprise. The enterprise is sort of a nebulous term, so I broke it down into two factions, “Super Enterprises” and “Everyday Enterprises”. My goal was to shed a …
Cisco intends to buy Piston. IBM buys Blue Box Cloud. This was just one day in the life of OpenStack. Large companies have been on an OpenStack feeding frenzy, with Cisco buying Metacloud and EMC buying Cloudscaling before Piston and BlueBoxCloud were even on the menu. While some may argue whether on not OpenStack is …
Keystone is one of the key components of any OpenStack deployment. In short, Keystone takes a look at everyone logging into the OpenStack cloud, and answers two very important questions: “Who are you?” and “What can you do?”. It is critical for Keystone to be deployed in a highly available manner in each OpenStack deployment, as …
This week I’m at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, and I’ve been having a fantastic time. I’ve been to a ton of great sessions, and am presenting one on Thursday. I’ve also gotten to meet tons of people from the OpenStack community in person, which is always one of my favorite parts of conferences. Today I also …
#VirtualDesignMaster LIVE @Interop is behind us, and a big thank you goes to everyone for their support! Fun fact, I attended one of the final Comdex conferences back in the day, so it was really great to attend my first Interop! While I spent most of my time in the expo at the #VirtualDesignMaster booth, I did …
Register NOW for #VirtualDesignMaster at Interop! #VirtualDesignMaster will be coming to you LIVE from Interop 2015 in booth 2007! We’ll be running a special version of our #VirtualDesignMaster challenge, with kick off on Tuesday with challenge judging on Wednesday and Thursday! Our grand prize will be $500 USD sponsored by Rene Van Den Bedem, and …