Smart OpenStack Powered Automation/Neutron Q&A with James Denton

Please join us at 6:30pm on Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 for our third OpenStack NYC Enterprises Meetup where we’ll discuss smart OpenStack powered automation with our friends from StackStorm. They will set us thru how StackStorm can not just solve for automating remediation tasks in your cloud but, also how you can use it to do even more. We will also have the privilege to have a Q&A session with James Denton, the author of the most popular OpenStack book currently published - Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Following the discussion we’ll have live music and drinks courtesy of Rackspace.

Special thanks goes out to Rackspace for providing tasty refreshments and JNK Securities for allowing us to utilize their space.

Agenda:
6:30 – 6:50pm: Welcome
6:50 – 7:20pm: Smart OpenStack Powered Automation - for everthing, not just OpenStack - Patrick Hoolboom (StackStorm)
7:20 – 7:30pm: Break: OpenStack Trivia
7:30 – 7:55pm: Q&A Session with James Denton on Neutron - James Denton (Rackspace)
7:55 - 9:00pm: Live music, Networking, and Drinks

*Please bring a state issued ID with you to the event.

The talk will demonstrate StackStorm software orchestrating and automating CI/CD workflows as well as common OpenStack troubleshooting and remediation workflows. Most of the OpenStack troubleshooting guide is now available for free from StackStorm as code that runs through these steps automatically. More information ­ and the open source code itself along with use guides, integrations and automations ­ is available at http://www.stackstorm.com/community .

Meet Your Speakers:

Evan Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of StackStorm. With 15+ years experience in infrastructure software, Evan was previously the founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, where he helped create the software defined storage market and achieved over $350M of annual partner sales.

Prior to Nexenta, Evan co-founded Clarus Systems, the leading provider of enterprise software for next generation, real time communications. Clarus is now a division of Riverbed.

Evan holds a BA from Williams College and a MBA from the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Spain. He was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the leading European venture fund Finaves in 2010 and was named one of the Top Ten Leaders in Storage in 2012.

James Denton is an OpenStack Network Architect for Rackspace Private Cloud. He has worked for Rackspace since 2008, and has been involved with OpenStack since the Essex release. James is an active participant in #openstack-neutron on IRC, and is authoring a book on OpenStack Networking to be released in October 2014.