"Ceph Lords" San Francisco Stackers Free Event!

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6:30pm, Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
DreamHost’s new San Francisco office, 221 Pine St, 2nd Floor

Facilitated by Piston Cloud (http://www.pistoncloud.com/), the enterprise OpenStack company, http://www.pistoncloud.com/
Hosted by DreamHost (http://dreamhost.com/), the leading web hosting provider & creators of Ceph (http://ceph.com/openstack/), http://dreamhost.com/ , http://ceph.com/openstack/
Magnolia Pub & Brewery is donating a keg of Kalifornia Kolsch!
DreamHost has arranged a taco bar.

We started the year off with a tour of a few (https://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/45998152/) topics. For this month’s event, we’re zooming in on one topic, Ceph (http://ceph.com/). Ceph is a distributed network storage and file system which, in our case, can be used for OpenStack (http://openstack.org/) block storage or as a drop-in replacement for the Swift (http://openstack.org/projects/storage/) object store.

Schedule

6:30pm - Food, Drink, & Networking

7:15 - Welcome

7:25 - "Introduction to Ceph and DreamHost's Object Service Deployment", Team Ceph.

Ben Cherian (https://twitter.com/bencherian), Emerging Technologies General Manager at DreamHost, will start us off; Tommi Virtanen (http://eagain.net/blog/), Senior File Systems Engineer, will provide the technical perspective; and Carl Perry (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carl-perry/a/380/9a0), Cloud Architect, will bring us home with insights into Ceph in production at DreamHost (http://dreamhost.com/).

8:15 - Intermission

8:30 - "OpenStack Block Storage with Ceph", Christopher MacGown (https://twitter.com/#%21/0x44), Co-Founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing (http://pistoncloud.com/).

9:15 - Sessions are complete. More networking.