Next Friday, April 20 at the OpenStack Design Summit and Conference, I will be moderating the OpenStack Private Cloud Panel from 10:40am – 11:20am in Breakout room D of the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco. I expect it will be an interesting topic and I'm really looking forward to the discussion between the audience and the panelists. The synopsis and panelists are below. If you're going to be at the conference, please come join us!
Private cloud is a hot topic right now. Many businesses and organizations are racing to build proof of concepts and put the cloud to work internally. I suspect that we're past the "Why private cloud? Why not public cloud?" questions and we've moved on to the "How?" but perhaps I'm wrong. Maybe we're at a tipping point? Between your questions, our panelists' answers, and the ensuing debate, let's find out where we stand.
The panelists will be:
Ryan Lane
- Wikimedia
- Operations Engineer
- Project lead for Wikimedia Labs, a test, development, and semi-production volunteer managed cloud.
- 256 users, 192 cores, 2960 GB RAM, 5 TB block storage for instances, 142 TB block storage for projects
Ross Lillie
- Motorola Solutions
- Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff
- 30 years in various research positions within Motorola and now Motorola Solutions, with focus on software and software systems.
- 60 cores, 100 GB RAM, 42 TB block storage and 100 TB object storage.
Narayan Desai
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Principal Experimental Systems Engineer
- My major interest is building this system to rival the performance of purpose built HPC systems for everything but tightly coupled parallel jobs.
- 30 users, 4032 cores, 12 TB RAM, 100 TB block storage (expanding to ~7k cores, 30 TB RAM, 600 TB of block storage and 800 TB (raw) object storage)
Jan Drake
- Disney
- Principal Cloud Architect
The moderator will be:
Everett Toews
- Cybera
- Senior Developer
- Building OpenStack clouds for use by business, academia and the community while trying spur and support innovation along the way.
- 40+ users, 768 cores, 1920 GB RAM, 48 TB block storage and 24 TB (usable) object storage
Hope to see you there!