Openstack Hands on Lab

Bring your laptops and Join us as Dan Radez, from Red Hat shows us how to install and configure OpenStack. This presentation includes a demo of RDO and the opportunity for our meetup participants to install OpenStack on their laptops.

In preparation for the meetup, please read and follow the instructions at http://openstack.redhat.com/GettingStartedHavana_w_GRE prior to the Meetup. Please note that web page is a work in progress and may be updated prior to the Meetup.

NOVEMBER 6 UPDATE

We've added another speaker for this Meetup: Nati Shalom. Nati was one of our panelists for our September Meetup on the AWS APIs Debate.

Topic: Four Case Studies for Moving Mission-Critical Apps to the Cloud

OpenStack has been around for three years. Is it ready yet for prime time? Hear how four different organizations brought their mission-critical apps to OpenStack:Moving from existing Data Center to OpenStack:

• Learn how a tier top bank is moving their apps from their existing Data Center to OpenStack.

• Building a Carrier Grade application deployment (a.k.a NFV): Hear how a carrier solution provider is delivering a Carrier Grade service deployment for networking applications.

• Big Data on OpenStack: Learn how a world class system integrator is offering Big Data and BI systems on demand on OpenStack.

• Deploying on AWS and OpenStack for better Disaster Recovery: Hear how a SaaS based company is improving their DR by deploying on both AWS and OpenStack.

Nati Shalom, Founder and CTO at GigaSpaces, is a thought leader in Cloud-Computing and Big-Data Technologies. Shalom was recently recognized as a Top Cloud Computing Blogger for CIO’s by The CIO Magazine and his blog listed as an excellent blog by technical founders by YCombinator. Shalom is the founder and also one of leaders of OpenStack-Israel group, and is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.