SDN, NFV and Virtualization in the Cloud Experts - all in ONE Meetup!

Join us for an evening filled with presentations around SDN, Virtualization and NFV led by experts!

Agenda:

6:00pm – 6:15pm: Networking, pizza and beer

6:15pm – 6:55pm: Suresh Boddapati - Policy Based SDN Solution for DC and Branch Office

In this talk Suresh will discuss how Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) helps overcome the challenges that cloud service providers and large enterprises face delivering, and managing, large multi-tenant clouds. He will discuss how Nuage Networks delivers a massively scalable SDN solution that ensures that datacenters, and wide area networks, are able to respond instantly to demand, and are boundary-less. The talk will also provide an overview of the SDN capabilities that Nuage VSP adds to CloudStack.

Bio

Suresh is the VP of Engineering at Nuage Networks. He has over 19 years experience in software development, building great teams and delivering high quality software. As the first engineer at Nuage Networks, Suresh played a key role in shaping the architecture of the Nuage Virtualized Services Platform (VSP). Suresh’s experience includes extensive protocol development, having developed IP routing and multicast protocols from scratch and deploying them in large ISPs. Suresh was part of the original TiMetra team before becoming part of Alcatel Lucent as Principal Engineer. He then took a role as Director of Engineering at Juniper where he worked on their QFabric product. Earlier in his career, Suresh worked in software engineering at Shasta Networks (Nortel acquired) as well as Fore Systems (Marconi, Ericsson acquired).

6:55pm – 7:35pm: Tim Mackey – XenServer Virtualization in Cloud Environments

XenServer is an open source virtualization solution delivered by Citrix. As such, many expect it to be optimized for the delivery of VDI workloads, but what is less well known are its cloud capabilities. In this session we’ll cover what a “XenServer” is, how it works, and why it is used in large scale cloud environments powered by both OpenStack and Apache CloudStack.

Bio

Tim Mackey is an evangelist and community manager for XenServer within the Citrix Open Source Business Office and is focused on server virtualization and cloud orchestration technical competencies. Mr. Mackey has spoken at Interop, CA World, Cloud Expo, Cloud Connect, CloudCon Expo, OSCON and the CloudStack Collaboration Conference.

7:35pm – 8:15pm: Chiradeep Vittal - The future of SDN in CloudStack

The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it.

The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends.

Bio

Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles.

Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com

8:15pm – 8:55pm: Youcef Laribi - SDN and NFV for L4-L7 services

In this talk, we will discuss how L4-L7 devices can integrate in various SDN architectures, discuss benefits and some of the challenges that such integration represents. We will also talk about how SDN and NFV relate, and what are the different challenges to successfully deploy L4-L7 devices as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or provide such services to the NFV Infrastructure (VIM).

Bio

Youcef Laribi is a Principal Architect in the Delivery Networks BU at Citrix. He is responsible for driving the integration projects of the NetScaler ADC product with several Cloud, SDN and Automation environments including OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI. He is also the Citrix representative on the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. His background is mainly in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, and he worked on several middleware technologies from DCE and CORBA in the early days, to J2EE and .NET to SOA and micro-services today. Youcef speaks 4 languages and holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the French INPG Institute in Grenoble, France.

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