Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

Please note: All times listed below are in Central Time Zone


Canonical - Carrier grade architecture with public cloud economics - the keys to successful OpenStack operations

Mark Shuttleworth demonstrates advances in OpenStack that enable it to be fast, reliable & economic. To succeed OpenStack needs to be economical, fast, reliable and simple all at the same time. Users want an OpenStack that knows what it is and comes with tooling that enables workloads to move between OpenStack and other platforms as needed by the demands of the business. In this session, Mark Shuttleworth, Product Strategy lead at Canonical accompanied by Doug Balog, General Manager of Power Systems at IBM will demonstrate some of the advances made in OpenStack that can help it meet these goals as well introduce the NFVi Project lead at Deutsche Telekom who is building an entire European phone network on OpenStack today.

Monday, April 25, 11:15am-11:55am (4:15pm - 4:55pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Canonical
Mark founded security specialist Thawte before selling the company to VeriSign in 1999. In 2004, he founded Ubuntu and Canonical, combining responsibility for strategy and user experience at Canonical with roles on the Ubuntu Technical Board and Community Council.   FULL PROFILE
General Manager, IBM Power Systems
Douglas (Doug) Balog, General Manager, Power Systems, is responsible for IBM’s worldwide Power Systems business including the OpenPOWER initiative. Doug has been leading the transformation of POWER for the last three years to align it with the market shifts to cognitive computing and cloud, underpinned by an open, community-based innovation business model. Power Systems grew every... FULL PROFILE
Vice President & Chief Architect Infrastructure Cl