Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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Mainframes in the Cloud

Major enterprise customers continue to have and make significant investments in the mainframe to support both legacy applications, and increasingly, next gen workloads thanks to the high levels of virtualization the mainframe can support. In this talk, we explore the benefits of adding the mainframe to you hypervisor mix and demonstrate deploying workloads in a multi-hypervisor environment.


What can I expect to learn?

The advantages of including System z in their OpenStack plans, the architecture of the solution and how it fits within a multi-hypervisor environment.

Wednesday, October 26, 11:25am-12:05pm (9:25am - 10:05am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
SUSE
Pete Chadwick is Director of Product Management, Cloud and Systems Management for SUSE. Chadwick has more than 20 years of experience at global technology organizations such as IBM, US Robotics, 3Com and Novell. At SUSE, his responsibilities include comprehensive market and business analysis required to deliver go-to-market strategies for one of SUSE’s priority business areas –... FULL PROFILE
Chief Engineer OpenStack Solutions & PaaS, IBM
Kershaw works for IBM and his current roles is the Chief Engineer OpenStack Solutions & PaaS. He is part of the z Systems Strategy and Design team and has spent his career in roles in z/OS and Linux for z Systems.   FULL PROFILE