Network Virtualization is a Quantum Leap Forward

All physicists with whom I polled disapprove of how "Quantum" is used in the title above - with the exception of Dr. Sam Beckett (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjK9GJMBpt0).

Oh boy…

We have stellar guests who are traveling down from the Bay Area to present. Our first speaker, Paul Guth (http://www.linkedin.com/in/pguth), will provide an overview of a real live OpenStack private cloud deployment. Paul is the VP of Technical Operations at Cloudscaling (http://www.cloudscaling.com/).

Our second presenter is Somik Behera (http://www.linkedin.com/in/somik). Somik is in charge of the Software Product Management and Development at Nicira (http://nicira.com/). He is also a core contributor to the Quantum project (http://wiki.openstack.org/Quantum) in OpenStack. Quantum is basically “network connectivity as a service” and it’s currently being incubated in the Essex release of OpenStack. Quantum will become a core project when Folsom is released in late September. Somik will discuss network virtualization and Quantum.

Special thanks goes out to our gracious host, Morphlabs (http://www.morphlabs.com/). They will be sponsoring the event with food and drink. I’ll add menu details soon. The Morphlabs CEO, Winston Damarillo (http://www.linkedin.com/in/winstondamarillo), will perform a lightning talk after the intermission.

IMPORTANT: Free parking is available under the building.

Agenda:

7:00PM – Food, drink, chatting

7:30 – Welcome

7:35 – Paul Guth, Cloudscaling
• Overview of a real live production OpenStack private cloud deployment including:

• Pre-build considerations
• Building the Cloud
• Operating the Cloud
  • Details on components used, HA strategy, and challenges of integrating into existing IT Ops environments

8:00 – Intermission

8:15 – Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs (Lightning Talk)
• Updates about the foundation and answer any questions
• Discuss the flexibility and extensibility of OpenStack beyond core compute and storage
• Show how OpenStack allows for use of best-of-breed cloud building blocks

8:25 – Somik Behera, Nicira
• Why Quantum?
• What is the architecture and roadmap?
• How can Quantum be leveraged by customers for greenfield and existing cloud infrastructure deployments.
• How can Quantum be integrated with Fabrics, Software Defined Networks/Openflow?
• Live Demo of Quantum deploying a 20 VM virtual environment with isolated virtual networks in seconds.

8:50 – Sessions are complete – more mingling