Austin
April 25-29, 2016

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Neutron Networking in the Real World -- Sharing Experiences & Lessons Learnt
Case Studies

In this user panel, we will discuss the OpenStack network deployment experiences of three different enterprise-scale data centers using a Unified Physical + Virtual Neutron Networking architecture.

  • Clemson University: Deploying a production-grade OpenStack Virtual Desktop environment. Experiences with deployment and operation of OpenStack and VmWare on converged data center pods, leveraging multi-tier network segmentation for threat or fault isolation, troubleshooting, monitoring and compliance.
  • Telus: Experiences with deploying a Unified Physical and Virtual networking solution for OpenStack using Mirantis Fuel. Learnings from provisioning, managing and troubleshooting distributed L2 & L3 networking across physical and virtual switch infrastructure.
  • CleanSafeCloud: Meeting performance and resilience requirements of an OpenStack-powered collocated private cloud infrastructure, encompassing IaaS and Object Storage solutions for highly secure applications, leveraging SDN architecture.

What can I expect to learn?

Attendees should expect real world experiences from data center architects who have deployed neutron networks in production.  In addition to scale and resilience of a managing an L2+L3 network from OpenStack Horizon, the panel will discuss the implications of using a unified physical + virtual networking architecture, and the challenges and benefits of using white-box based switching platforms.

Wednesday, April 27, 4:30pm-5:10pm (9:30pm - 10:10pm UTC)
Austin Convention Center - Level 4 - Ballroom G
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Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Tags: Architect Ops Enterprise Startup User Talk Ironic Neutron Public Cloud
Christian Sarrasin
Founder, CleanSafeCloud
Christian founded CleanSafeCloud, the secure, environmentally friendly collocated private cloud located in Switzerland in 2014.  Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years as a software engineer in the finance industry, mostly writing trading system software in London, UK. Having successfully used a lot of open source software in their previous life, it took Christian and his CTO very little time... FULL PROFILE
Dallas Thornton
Deputy CIO for Infrastructure Services & Operation
Dallas Thornton is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Infrastructure Services and Operations and Research Assistant Professor at Clemson University. In his role as Deputy CIO, Dallas develops and executes enterprise strategy for University infrastructure, including high performance computing, networking, data center infrastructure, and cloud architectures and services. He collaborates... FULL PROFILE
Sunit Chauhan
Director, Big Switch Labs
Sunit heads Product Marketing at Big Switch Networks. He is also responsible for Big Switch Labs - a virtualized online portal to showcase and experiment with all things Software Defined.  He has over 15 years of experience in the tech industry in product management, strategy and engineering roles. Sunit has been closely involved with OpenStack Neutron efforts at Big Switch. FULL PROFILE
Dimitar Ivanov
TELUS
You can find my “formal” professional bio further down but for most of you, this probably is all you really want to know: What’s been keeping me busy for the last two years is automation for infrastructure provisioning, OpenStack, architecting, designing and deploying clouds, NFV, SDN. I’m a unix/linux guy, always been, always will be! These days I happen to... FULL PROFILE