OpenStack L.A. Meetup - August 2017

Happy to announce the details of the August 2017 OpenStack L.A. Meetup. We have a new presenter for the group - Jeff Ekstrom, Technology Evangelist at RedHat.

Look forward to seeing everyone back in Playa Vista in the Verizon Digital Media space on August 24th!

Presentation Details:

Why Ceph for OpenStack?

Ceph storage is a software defined, opensource, storage product that is horizontally scalable, self healing, and runs on commodity hardware. Ceph is fast becoming the software defined storage standard for many use cases, including OpenStack. For example, at Red Hat, Ceph is the default storage backend for OpenStack deployments.

In this talk we will cover various aspects about Ceph:

• Architecture - What is Ceph? - Cost efficiency - How Ceph drives down cost.

• Use cases - How Ceph integrates with OpenStackOpen Source

• How the open source nature of Ceph makes it a natural fit for OpenStack

• Best practices - how to plan for a Ceph deployment

Presenter Bio:

Jeff Ekstrom, Technology Evangelist, RedHat

Jeff Ekstrom is a cloud evangelist for Red Hat’s Certified Cloud and Service Provider program. He has extensive experience with cloud strategy and architecture, with industry experience in Telecommunications, Federal Government, and Insurance. His cloud strategy focus includes both open source technologies and hybrid cloud enablement. Jeff joined Red Hat in late 2015, where he has been promoting and designing Red Hat solutions within Red Hat's partner ecosystem. Prior to that, Jeff's experience includes companies such as Accenture, The Coca-Cola Corporation, and SAIC.

Agenda:

7:00P – 7:30P: Eating, drinking, mingling, networking

7:30P – 7:35P: Group announcements and speaker introductions

7:35P - 8:45P: Main presentation/Q&A

8:45P – 10:00P: More eating, drinking, mingling, networking