Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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Performance Measuring Tools for the Cloud

The exponential growth of cloud computing services has given rise to the need for standards, specifications and workloads that can be used to evaluate the performance of various cloud offerings. During this session you will participate in a discussion that will be led by a panel of cloud performance professionals and managers that will focus on the various tools that have been developed to measure the Cloud and how they are being used for Openstack Cloud implementations. This will be an interactive session and attendees will be encouraged to ask questions, make comments and share their experiences with the various tools. Join us and learn how the performance of the cloud is measured.


What can I expect to learn?

Attendees will learn of the tools that major companies like Dell, Red Hat, Intel, IBM etc. use to measure the performance of their Openstack Cloud Implementations. In addition they will learn:

  1. Industry-standard benchmark standards for the Cloud from SPEC and TPC
  2. How benchmark standards are used to measure and compare performance
  3. Common workloads used to test the Cloud
  4. How benchmark tests are used by enterprises to characterize, optimize and configure their Cloud implementations.
  5. Best practices in running benchmark tests.
Monday, April 25, 12:05pm-12:45pm (5:05pm - 5:45pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Advanced
Senior Principal Performance Engineer
Nicholas Wakou is a Senior Principal Performance Engineer with the Dell Open Source Solutions team. Nicholas's role, interest and activity are focused on the characterization and optimization of the performance of Dell Cloud and Big Data solutions. Nicholas has been involved and is engaged with Industry efforts to define and manage performance benchmark standards. He is active on the SPEC... FULL PROFILE
Red Hat Inc.
Douglas Shakshober (Shak) is a senior consulting engineer and director of the Performance Engineering team at Red Hat. His team focuses on characterization, optimization, and performance of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel, KVM virtualization technology, Red Hat Open Stack Platform, Red Hat CloudForms, and Red Hat Storage Server. The team uses benchmarks and partners with OEMs and ISVs to... FULL PROFILE
senior QA engineer
Xiaofei Wang is a senior software QA engineer, now works in AWcloud and responsible for OpenStack project test and quality control. FULL PROFILE
software engineer in AWCloud
Yuting Wu is a software developer in AWcloud. His main responsibility is working for OpenStack Cinder、Glance and Swift since  the beginning of 2014. He is also interested in ceph and other storage solution in openstack... FULL PROFILE
Principal Engineer
Das Kamhout is a Principal Engineer in the Intel Cloud Platforms Group, he is one of the key leaders for the software defined infrastructure (SDI) engineering and industry efforts for Intel.  He brings many years of experience as the engineering and architecture leader for the Intel IT Cloud efforts as well as extensive experience running the large scale Intel design grid.  Known as a... FULL PROFILE