OpenStack Fifth Anniversary Celebration with Presentations by HP and Comcast

Join us to celebrate the fifth anniversary of OpenStack's unveiling to the world back in July of 2010. As part of the celebration, we will be having a party with a few surprises. As well, HP will giving an overview of OpenStack as we currently know it today and Comcast will be talking about their journey as OpenStack users.

Title:

OpenStack 101

Abstract:

“Cinder, Nova, Trove of My!!” With all of the noise in the market place as it pertains to “OpenStack”, do people really know what it is exactly? Do you want to understand exactly why this platform exist and what OpenStack consist of? Join us, as we lay out exactly what this platform is made of, how this great cloud operating platform got its origins and what’s the latest and greatest as it relates to the product. Hold on as we follow the OpenStack road to Hybrid Cloud!

Speaker:

Dan Papandrea, HP

Bio:

Dan is a Solutions Architect for Hewlett Packard’s cloud portfolio of products called Helion. HP Helion is the world’s premier cloud technology portfolio for private, public, and hybrid cloud delivery. He has over 20 years of experience across numerous industries such as Financial, Insurance, Entertainment, and Pharmaceuticals. Dan’s past experience included solution design and implementing new technologies for deployment and enterprise level cloud implementation including many geared around the Openstack project in public, private, or hybrid cloud(s). Dan now seeks to educate on the many benefits of cloud technologies.

Title:

Comcast's Journey to OpenStack

Speakers:

Anthony Veiga, Comcast

Sridhar Basam, Comcast