OpenStack Cinder, Implementation Today and New Trends for Tomorrow

Presenter (updated) -Gabriel Chapman

SolidFire will cover the fundamentals about Cinder functions, and some of the little known advanced features of implementation around Cinder. The presentation explores emerging enterprise storage trends of OpenStack, and how those trends are changing the direction of Cinder development.

Gabriel joins Solidfire to focus on Agile Infrastructure with the top tier partners in the Cloud and Enterprise Ecosystem. A Prime Mover, Technologist, Unapologetic Randian Social Media Junky, Writer, Bacon Lover, and Deep Thinker, he has a primary goal to Speak Truth to Technology and make complex ideas sound simple.

A 4X vExpert that transitioned into the vendor side after spending 15 years working in the end user Information Technology arena. Gabriel has specialized in storage and virtualization technologies over the last decade.. Today his primary area of expertise revolves around storage, data center virtualization, hyper-converged infrastructure, rack scale/hyper scale computing, Cloud, DevOps, and Enterprise infrastructure design.. In his free time he is the host of the In Tech We Trust podcast, and enjoys blogging, and public speaking.

Prior to joining SolidFire Gabriel was a storage technologies overlay covering the United States with Cisco, focused on the Global Service Provider customer base. Before Cisco, he was part of the go to market team with SimpliVity, where he focused on crafting the customer facing messaging, pre-sales engagement, and evangelism efforts for the early adopters of Hyper Converged Infrastructure.