"Is OpenStack ready for Enterprises?"

Please join us at 6pm on Thursday, December 18th, 2014 for our inaugural OpenStack NYC Enterprise Meet Up where we’ll discuss the most recent improvements in OpenStack, deploying a highly available OpenStack cloud, and “What Makes OpenStack Ready for the Enterprise?” Following the discussion we’ll have live music and drinks courtesy of Rackspace.

Space is limited, so please reserve your spot now by signing up at: https://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-for-Enterprises-NYC/. Also, please bring a state issued ID with you to the event. The event will be held at the BWG Strategy event space.

Special thanks to BWG Strategy LLC for providing the venue for our kick off event! Check out what BWG Strategy can offer you: http://bwgstrategy.com/.

Agenda:
6:00 – 6:20pm: Welcome
6:20 – 6:40pm: What Makes OpenStack Ready for the Enterprise?
6:40 – 6:55pm: Break: OpenStack Trivia
6:55– 7:10pm: Ansible Your Enterprise
7:10 – 7:25pm: Break: Build your OpenStack cloud
7:25 – 7:40pm: My Data is Bigger than Yours
7:40 – 9:00pm: Networking, Live Music and Drinks

What Makes OpenStack Ready for the Enterprise?
This talk will cover some of the improvements introduced in recent OpenStack releases and why they move the gage toward making OpenStack Enterprise ready. Starts with the review of new OpenStack components and then details some recently published reference architectures on how to deploy a Highly Available OpenStack cloud. Also will include some highlights on how Rackspace, co-founders of OpenStack, consistently and quickly deploys OpenStack Private clouds.

Speaker Bio
Walter Bentley is a Private Cloud Solutions Architect at Rackspace. He helps design and build OpenStack private clouds for organizations of all sizes. Walter started this NYC-based meet up because he sees how disruptive OpenStack can be in Enterprise IT and believes large enterprise adoption of OpenStack will continue to increase. Prior to Rackspace, Walter served as a Senior Solution Architect for JetBlue Airways and as a Senior Production Support Engineer for >10 years across various industries including Online Marketing, Financial, Insurance, Aviation, Food & Beverage and Education. Follow Walter at @djstayflypro.

Ansible your Enterprise
This talk will cover what Ansible is doing to entice Enterprise organizations. The talk will start with an introduction to Ansible and cover some of the recent additions to Ansible. Also, cover some real life use cases by organizations. They may drop some secrets on future product features...who knows ;).

Please make sure to join the Ansible NYC meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-NYC/, in order to stay up to date with how Ansible is taking over automation.

Speaker Bio
Brian Coca of Ansible (more bio details on its way...)

My Data is Bigger than Yours: ObjectRocket
Talk is reserved for monthly review of the leading DBaaS providers on the market. This is with the idea it compliments what OpenStack offers many organization. This month we are featuring ObjectRocket, where they believe you should focus on your application, not your database. ObjectRocket provides scalable, fast, reliable, and automated MongoDB & Redis with Fanatical Support. Come learn what they can do for you!

Speaker Bio
Nikki Tirado is establishing MongoDB and Redis as a Service through Developer Evangelism in the technical community. She engages with people daily to build awareness and share MongoDB and Redis best practices. Nikki specializes in creating events and programs that incite collaboration amongst techies in New York CIty. She spent the last year in the UK where she trained people on Hybrid Cloud. She is passionate about volunteering with Seniors and could never have enough Tres Leches cake. Feel free to say hello @nikkitirado.