April Meetup: “I Can Haz Moar Networks?” w/Midokura & Cumulus Networks

• 5:15pm: Welcome & introductions

• 5:30pm: "I Can Haz Moar Networks?" with Tim Fall (Midokura) and "Open Networking Infrastructure to Enable Your OpenStack Environments" with Nolan Leake (Cumulus Networks)

• 6:45pm: Food sponsored by Midokura and Cumulus Networks!

"I Can Haz Moar Networks?" (Tim Fall, Cloud Architect, Midokura)

So you want to build a cloud? Or maybe you have a cloud already, and you want it to work. Well great, you got the first step out of the way, your users can create all the virtual machines they could possibly want. So everything should be unicorns and rainbows right? What happens when your users want to connect their machines to something else?

How your users connect their virtual machines to the outside (and each other) is just as important, if not more, than the virtual machines themselves. For most of us, the cloud model we follow is the same one used at Amazon, Digital Ocean, Google Compute Engine, and all the others. Machines get an “internal” address and, if they want to connect to the outside, an “external” address. That’s it, chocolate or vanilla. So what happens if a user is writing a program that uses a clustered database? Can the databases be placed on their own network so they can be regulated? Do they need to go out to the external network and back in to communicate with the non-database components?

If you’re going to virtualize your machines, why not virtualize the networks that connect them together? In this talk we’ll go over a new model for tenant-controllable networking that lets cloud operators give their users the ability to customize and control their networks, in the same way they do for compute power, storage, etc. We’ll also go over some use cases directly applicable to different cloud infrastructure. Finally, we’ll do a live demo of how networks can change on a programmatic time scale to accommodate even the most absurd needs. Plug your ears, we’re going to blow your mind.

"Open Networking Infrastructure to Enable Your OpenStack Environments" (Nolan Leake, CTO & Co-founder, Cumulus Networks)

For modern data center architectures, the ecosystem is more important than ever, enabling innovation at a much faster pace, such as integration with Network virtualization overlays like Midokura. Cumulus Networks is extending open networking concepts to the OpenStack community so that users can apply the same design principles of storage and compute to the networking world for reliable and scalable cloud environments. Watch our co-founder/CTO in action who has been a regular speaker at the OpenStack summits provide you guidelines on understanding OpenStack implementation and reference designs with Overlays for Networking.

About the speakers:

Tim Fall is an OpenStack Person of Infamy; and occasional Cloud Architect at Midokura. Nolan Leake is the co-founder and CTO of Cumulus Networks where he sets the technical direction and oversees the product roadmap. Prior to Cumulus, he founded a distributed storage start-up called Tile Networks. His work there led him to realize how unsuitable existing networking equipment is for the data-center of the future (which Cumulus Networks aims to rectify). Prior to that, he had a research role at Nuova Systems, and a technical leadership role at cluster-virtualization pioneer 3Leaf Systems. He did early work on virtualization at VMware.

Openstack April meetup

Monday, April 6, 2015

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