The Future of OpenStack: Austin Summit Pre-Talks

Join us as we share current challenges in advance of the OpenStack Austin Summit. We will also learn from Trilio Data and Cumulus Networks.

Agenda:

6:00 - 6:25 Food and Drinks

6:30 - 6:55 Pre-Summit Challenges Chat

7:00 - 7:25 Exclusive Preview of the First Native Backup and Recovery Solution for OpenStack by David and Murali from Trilio Data

7:30 - 7:55 Cumulus Networks Talk Topic TBA

8:00 - 9:00 Drinks

Meet Your Speakers:

David Safaii, is CEO of Trilio Data. Prior to joining Trilio Data, David was founder and SVP of BurstPoint Networks. During his tenure with the company, he successfully raised venture funding, grew revenues and exited with an acquisition by Avaya. Previously, David was a Principal at Windspeed Ventures, focusing on investing in and working with portfolio companies in infrastructure software as it relates to the digital media, communications, mobile, security, storage, internet of things and software as a service markets. He helped manage one of the largest venture portfolios in the US. Prior to his tenure at Windspeed, David served with the Technology Investment Banking Group at CIBC World Markets.

Murali Balcha, co-founder and CTO of Trilio Data, is one of the co-authors of the first specification for OpenStack Backup-as-a-Service, called Raksha. For over 15 years Murali has served in key technical and leadership roles, delivering breakthrough technologies to market. Most recently, he served as an Engineering Leader at EMC, where he led the development of numerous storage, virtualization, and cloud computing innovations and established EMC’s leadership in Disaster Recovery, and VMware Integration