Austin
April 25-29, 2016

Event Details

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


IBM - OpenStack for Beginners (Your Private Tour of the Massive Project)

Are you still evaluating your cloud strategy or determining how to best apply OpenStack in your company? Is this your first OpenStack Summit? Come hear what capabilities are available inside the OpenStack platform and how the platform can be used to solve real challenges. We will cover an overview of key OpenStack services and their project names, ensuring you've got the language to get the most out of your conference week. You'll learn about the various cloud consumption models for OpenStack. Lastly, OpenStack leads in open-source cloud innovation and we will share some of the highlights from recent work accomplished inside the OpenStack community.

Are you still evaluating your cloud strategy or determining how to best apply OpenStack in your company? Is this your first OpenStack Summit? Come hear what capabilities are available inside the OpenStack platform and how the platform can be used to solve real challenges. We will cover an overview of key OpenStack services and their project names, ensuring you've got the language to get the most out of your conference week. You'll learn about the various cloud consumption models for OpenStack. Lastly, OpenStack leads in open-source cloud innovation and we will share some of the highlights from recent work accomplished inside the OpenStack community.

Tuesday, April 26, 11:15am-11:55am (4:15pm - 4:55pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Beginner
CTO
Jesse Proudman founded Blue Box Group Inc. in 2003 to deliver reliable hosted infrastructure solutions. In 2014, he launched Blue Box Cloud as a dedicated private cloud as a service offering, powered by OpenStack. In 2015, the company was acquired by IBM. His leadership has been instrumental in driving the success of the company and helping Blue Box customers embrace the benefits of... FULL PROFILE
IBM, IBM Distinguished Engineer
Dr. Brad Topol is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Cloud Architecture and Technology organization. In his current role, Brad leads a development team focused on contributing to and improving OpenStack and he has cross-IBM responsibility for coordinating its contributions to OpenStack. Brad serves as a member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors and is also an OpenStack core... FULL PROFILE
Offering Manager, IBM Cloud
    I have been in the OpenStack community since 2013 and I am currently participating in the Product WG, Enterprise WG and I also helped to define the newly created Active User Contributor (AUC) designation in the OpenStack community. At Athenahealth, I am focused on our infrastructure/cloud services strategy, operations, and participate extensively in OpenStack user... FULL PROFILE