Join the Women of OpenStack for a pre-Summit gathering!
We will take a one hour boat tour of Hong Kong's famous Victoria Harbor, 5:00pm - 6:00pm. Immediately following the boat tour we will walk as a group to nearby restaurant, Isola, for happy hour and mingling.
Boat tour - meet at the Clock Tower at Pier No 9. To arrive at Pier No 9 you can take the train/subway to Hong Kong Station. From Hong Kong Station it is a short 10 minute walk to Pier No 9.
Boat will depart at 5:00pm sharp, please arrive early!
Happy hour - we have a space reserved from 6:15pm - 7:30pm at Isola Bar & Grill. Isola is located on Level 3 of IFC Mall in Central Hong Kong.
Space is very limited so please only RSVP if you can indeed attend.
Boat tour and drinks are complementary. If you have any questions please contact events@openstack.org
We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong!
In a hyper-connected world with mobile, social and embedded intelligence, businesses face pressure to leverage technology to differentiate like never before. Winners will be based on how quick and responsive they are to customer needs and how rapidly they innovate amid pervasive change in a heterogeneous landscape. As an industry, we have an opportunity to be drivers of this next era of rapid innovation by supporting and strengthening interoperability. In his keynote address, Dr. Daniel Sabbah, IBM CTO and General Manager for Next Generation Platform walks the audience through the state of the industry and the imperative of an Open Cloud Architecture to enable rapid and constant innovation. In the last few decades, IBM has been at the forefront of open interoperability initiatives, now including OpenStack, and has helped unlock its potential for its clients. Dr. Sabbah will host one such client, Paul Lu CEO of Wuxi Lake Cloud Tai Cloud Computing, on the stage to talk about their experience with ease in integrating their solution based on OpenStack. IBM applauds OpenStack’s growth, relevance and role in an Open Cloud Architecture.
Quick overview on Brocade innovations with OpenStack including the Dynamic Network Resource Manager for network capacity planning, Fibre Channel SAN Zone management, Load balancer customer use-case and Ethernet Fabrics innovations. management, Load balancer customer use-case and Ethernet Fabrics innovations.
Pluribus Networks will be demonstrating how to manage the network infrastructure with Openstack using our F64 Server-Switch and the Neutron plugin. There will be several working examples of how Pluribus Networks will simplify the Openstack network deployment including:
(1) Creating multi-tenant networks
(2) Creating virtual appliances (routers, load-balancers, nat, dhcp)
(3) Using advanced features (traffic classes, analytics etc)
Pluribus Networks is a leader in scalable, performance-oriented software-defined networking for private and public cloud data centers. Our systems transform how IT administrators deploy and manage infrastructure, realizing productivity gains enabling new business models. Pluribus Networks's solutions optimize datacenter network utilization while maintaining required levels of performance, reliability, and availability. Information about Pluribus Networks can be found at http://www.pluribusnetworks.com.
Simplicity, Time to Market, Low Entry Cost and Scalability are just some of the key issues when implementing an OpenStack environment.
By combining the Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS) with compute and storage into a converged platform, enterprise users can have a single unit to provision, scale and manage for an OpenStack private cloud deployment. NDFS provides a single scalable data fabric which integrates with OpenStack services, including Glance, Nova, Cinder and Swift with optimal performance and growth capabilities. Since this Advanced Computing Platform is hypervisor agnostic, users can also implement VMware and Hyper-V on the same platform using the same facilities. Come heard what the fast growing segment of virtualization can do for your projects today!
Join NetApp’s Sr. Product Manager for OpenStack, Robert Esker, for a brief demonstration of NetApp’s efficient image cloning capabilities for Nova and Glance. This array-based cloning dramatically reduces provisioning time and storage consumption of VM instances. Robert will also give a sneak preview of the upcoming Manila file share service. The new service brings shared file systems including NFS and CIFS/SMB into OpenStack, similar to how Cinder manages block volumes today. In addition, Robert will review some examples of customer implementations that have increased OpenStack's availability, efficiency, and data security by using NetApp Data ONTAP.
Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) is a core cloud infrastructure service expected by tenants that are looking to deploy, mission critical and performance critical applications to tightly manage applications' availability and scalability.
Radware is a core contributor to the Quantum/Neutron LBaaS project, developing the LBaaS driver framework in Havana to provide multi-vendor support.
In the presentation we will describe several use cases for LBaaS and the benefits for using Radware's Alteon load balancer in Openstack for driving truly multi-tenant, efficient and agile "enterprise grade" LBaaS.
Like electricity, compute resource can readily scale up and burst, and workload can operate geographically (cloud is cool!). Storage however is more like water, where moving large amounts of data can be more challenging, especially over distance. Come see in this live demo how OpenStack Object Storage (code name Swift) can be used for disaster recovery (stay-available during catastrophic failures) and multi-site access to reduce application latency (fast = happy users).
Learn how to keep your production OpenStack Cloud environment current with HP Cloud OS Distribution Network and remove the complexity around installation, upgrades, and patching. Also leverage the power of a cloud ecosystem for community-driven content establishing best practices and thought leadership.
This demo will highlight the capabilities of the OpenStack distribution included in the IBM SmartCloud family of products, including the available deployment and configuration options. The OpenStack included in IBM SmartCloud products is based on stable community releases, comes tested and supported with these products, and has additional value-add functionality. The demonstration will cover our xCat and Chef-based deployment solution that builds a full function OpenStack cloud complete with HA and monitoring tools from bare-metal, integrating IBM Platform Computing scheduling technology as well as the cross-hypervisor and cross-cloud management provided by SmartCloud Entry.
Red Hat has a broad offering of open source training and certifications, including the industry standard Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. In this session, learn about Red Hat's new training offerings and certifications for OpenStack based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform product and how they fit within Red Hat's existing offerings.
OpenStack only delivers real value to the business when it runs the services that a business needs. Deep Bhattacharjee, Head of Cloud Product management at Canonical will discuss deploying business applications on OpenStack, leveraging existing enterprise virtualisation infrastructure where appropriate.
Your developers told you they wanted Cloud. But did they tell you that what they actually wanted was you, IT, out of their way?
Alas, you didn’t realize. But you gave them OpenStack! Except your overarching control is still there, so they’re still using AWS. Meanwhile, your Private Cloud is getting lonely.
What now? They’re unhappy, you’re unhappy, and management’s getting impatient!
It’s time for you to fix your troubled marriage with engineering.
Shutterstock was founded in 2003 before AWS or the advent of consumer cloud technologies. Over the years Shutterstock has scaled significantly and needed to solve specific challenges of low latency, high volume deployment, the shift to services architecture, high performance databases transactions, unstructured data, and requiring PBs of storage. The infrastructure at Shutterstock is unique, embracing strong expertise in systems management and design as well as high levels of distributed networking pricipals (anycast, ospf, bgp).
This talk will be focused on the design concepts of building a custom cloud with shared operational responsibility between your engineering and operations teams, as well as discussion on theory of building the right type of teams for modern infrastructure platforms.
The Titan (formerly named Pandora), made in Hong Kong, by a Hong Kong man, is a new OpenStack management portal. It aims at improving and fine-tuning some features of the original OpenStack Cloud administration.
Titan is a central administration software for OpenStack. It relies on horizon server, adding extra functions to it. Users can use it to operate the OpenStack cloud. The goal is simple: bringing OpenStack to commercial. The OpenStack project is great, but it splits into many pieces, customers expect a powerful tool to administrate all of them in one. Billing system and monitoring system are on the road map. With these functions, Internet service providers will be getting easier to adopt into OpenStack ecosystem. Helping people and enhancing OpenStack is their missions.
During the demo, it will show how the Titan manage and administrate the Cyberport OpenStack Platform.
The Titan which is now open-sourced for everyone will focus on private cloud deployment in helping small and medium enterprises to build and manage their private cloud easier and faster without paying expensive licenses.
OpenStack enables the ability to mix and match infrastructure technologies and deployment options based on application workloads. In this session, you will learn how Citrix products including XenServer, NetScaler and CloudPortal integrate with OpenStack to accelerate time-to-value. Attendees will leave with an understanding of the technical capabilities and integration points between Citrix products and OpenStack.
The OpenDaylight Project is a collaborative open source project whose aim is to accelerate adoption of software-defined networking (SDN), creating a more transparent approach, fostering new innovation and reducing risk. As with most open source projects implementing disruptive software, the power of the platform will come from people as yet unknown to us wanting to do things which we had never thought of, nor planned for. The OpenDaylight community is developing a common, open SDN framework consisting of code and blueprints and has made great strides toward that effort in just a few short months since launch.
Because it is open source, OpenDaylight can be a core component within any SDN architecture. Building upon an open source SDN controller enables users to reduce operational complexity, extend the life of their existing infrastructure hardware and enable new services and capabilities only available with SDN. OpenDaylight is a modular, extensible open source SDN controller platform and can rapidly evolve to accommodate new challenges and innovations. Whether your organization is an enterprise IT provider, a network service provider or a Cloud services provider, you can begin taking advantage of SDN using a community-driven, open source controller framework available today.
• OpenDaylight Project is a collaborative open source project whose aim is to accelerate adoption of software-defined networking (SDN).
• As with most open source projects implementing disruptive software, the power of the platform will come from people as yet unknown to us wanting to do things which we had never thought of, nor planned for.
• The OpenDaylight community is developing a common, open SDN framework consisting of code and blueprints and has made great strides toward that effort in just a few short months since launch.
• Because it is open source, OpenDaylight can be a core component within any SDN architecture allowing users to reduce operational complexity, extend the life of their existing infrastructure hardware and enable new services and capabilities only available with SDN.
• As a modular, extensible open source SDN controller platform, OpenDaylight can rapidly evolve to accommodate new challenges and innovations.
• Enterprise IT providers, network service providers and Cloud services providers can begin taking advantage of SDN using a community-driven, open source controller framework available today.
OpenStack efficiencies can be a two-edged sword. Sure, it can empower developers to invoke well-specified infrastructure services and build more cool stuff faster. But at the same time, the diversity of options and components in your infrastructure you want to deploy as a service means your cloud can get fragmented into messy underlying configurations and spin out of control: goodbye efficiency. And if your developers love your OpenStack cloud? Success is its own punishment.
How can you achieve reliable operation at scale in large distributed deployments, without sacrificing rapid adoption of new features?
Much of the emerging technologies supporting OpenStack deployment and automation focuses on helping build the foundational elements of your OpenStack cloud. At Mirantis, across over 60 customer deployments, we’ve developed a set of pre- and post-flight checks to ensure that your OpenStack cloud can overcome that fragmentation. We’ll review those along with the best practices in deployment, monitoring, management, and maintenance. By taking advantage of this accumulated experience rather than re-inventing the wheel, you can speed the time to benefit for OpenStack. What’s more, once your cloud is up and running, these strategies mean that rather than firefighting, infrastructure teams can design/architect new services that developers and users use to capture value for their organization.
Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, software defined storage system that runs on commodity hardware. Integrated with OpenStack since the Folsom release, Ceph provides cost-effective block and object storage for the cloud.
This demonstration will showcase tools for enterprises who operate Ceph clusters, and will show how they can be used to detect issues, troubleshoot, and report on the health of the entire storage cluster.
In this talk, Yahoo will discuss how they use OpenStack today, how they will be using it in the future, and some of the challenges they've encountered along the path to adoption.
One Convergence will preview their Network Virtualization and Service Delivery solution for OpenStack cloud environment. The software overlay based solution enables self-service multi-tenant networks and network services to be created, provisioned and managed on demand and provides significant value proposition for delivering L4 to L7 services."
RSVP: http://dellopenstackwelcome.eventbrite.com/
Please join us for a special
OpenStack Summit Welcome Reception
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
from
6:30 - 8:30pm
at the
SkyBistro - SkyCity Marriott - Hong Kong
Space is extremely limited so we encourage you to
RSVP immediately to secure your seat at this event
brought to you by
Dell and Intel
We look forward to welcoming you to Summit 2013!
Cheers,
Dell and Intel
PS - Due to space restrictions, attendance to the event is by RSVP only. Please make sure to print your ticket and bring it with you to the entrance to the event.
Mark McLoughlin, with an introduction from Brian Stevens, will give his take on our community’s incredible momentum, the key ingredients to our success, and where we go from here.
As OpenStack goes into real world production environments, the challenges of reliability and high availability need to be addressed. In this session, we will cover how to optimize and automate your applications for high availability within a single OpenStack cloud or across multiple resource pools. Key take-aways from the presentation will be:
- How to design for application HA
- Evaluating DR options based on your uptime requirements
- How to build an OpenStack HA solution that allows the same type of automation as Amazon AWS
This demo will go over the core Virtual Memory Streaming (VMS) technology and the most prominent use cases of VMS.
When deploying virtualized infrastructure, storage planning is always a pain point. People often have two choices . Either, buy an expensive central storage (SAN/NAS) storage device. However, with the growth of the data and virtualization infrastructure, the central storage device soon becomes the I/O bottleneck. Or, store data locally, but with the danger of losing data.
ZBS is a scale out distributed block storage system for virtual computing platforms. It has no single point of failure and can scale with your business growth. It is highly optimized for virtualization workload by using aggressive cache strategy and SSD/SATA tiered storage. In this presentation, I will show you how ZBS works and how to build a converged infrastructure with ZBS and Openstack.
Jim Curry will introduce Jon Proulx and Tony Campbell.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) currently has more than 100 active users and roughly 35 research projects running on its OpenStack cloud. That research runs the gamut – from analyzing how computers understand text, to conducting hardware research. In this featured presentation, hear from MIT CSAIL Senior Architect Jon Proulx about how OpenStack helped the MIT-based lab break away from proprietary clouds and how it empowers developers and users to conduct sophisticated research on OpenStack. Joining Jon will be Rackspace Director of Training and Certification Tony Campbell, whose team brought Rackspace Training for OpenStack to MIT, which helped researchers and students at the university sharpen their OpenStack expertise.
Storage Hypervisor Federation embodies the concepts of scalability, performance, service-level agreement assurance, application awareness, broad interfaces (block, file, object, and intelligent APIs), cloud platform connection, andvendor agnostic storage to offer a storage solution that optimizes storage utilization, and is easy to manage and use.
We will demonstrate the five key concepts behind Storage Hypervisors Federation: Discover, Catalog, Pool, Abstract and Provide. With these functions, IT administrators can accurately track resources, and provision the appropriate type of storage matching the requirements of individual applications such as desktop virtualization, server virtualization, archival, backup and disaster recovery.
We are building our infrastructure-aas based on openstack from 2011. Relative to Public Cloud, Private Cloud has more especially requirements, such as the special network architecture,the special strategy for the allocation of resources. This session will introduce the problems and demands we have met in our private cloud. Now, we're also building our network platform via sdn to provide a dynamic and programmable network for our infrastructure.
Hear detail around a unique deployment of the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with Inktank Ceph installed at a large nationally recognized American University that specializes in cancer and genomic research. The University had a need to provide a scalable, secure, centralized data repository to support approximately 900 researchers and an ever-expanding number of research projects and rapidly expanding universe of data. The Dell and Inktank cloud storage solution addresses these storage challenges with an open source solution that leverages the Dell Crowbar Framework and Reference Architecture. After assessing a number of traditional storage scenarios, the University partnered with Dell and Inktank to architect a centralized cloud storage platform that is capable of scaling seamlessly and rapidly, is cost-effective, and that can leverage a single hardware infrastructure, with Dell Power Edge R-720XD servers and the Dell Reference Architecture for their OpenStack compute and storage environment.
As part of a networking company and a server vendor, Huawei Cloud team develop Compass, a system not only for OpenStack software deployment, but also for fully automated hardware level server and networking gear configuration. Compass automates hardware resource discovery, hardware configuration (e.g., hardware RAID configuration, switch configuration), topology-aware OpenStack service deployment and etc. Therefore, end users have a streamlined OpenStack deployment experience with Compass. In this demo session, we are going to show Compass in action and give a live demo of installing OpenStack from bare metal to fully functional system.
OpenStack is quickly becoming the defacto standard for Open Cloud platforms. What makes OpenStack the future of Cloud Computing and how can someone get started with learning this new technology? This presentation will walk participants though the reasons for choosing OpenStack, provide an overview of the OpenStack projects, and offer practical suggestions and resources for learning the foundation of the new Open Cloud. The session will include a demonstration on how to spin up a test OpenStack infrastructure and begin to provision Cloud resources. A must for new participants!
The VMware OpenStack team has been hard at work adding new functionality to OpenStack for the Havana release. Stop by to see a live demo of some of the most interesting new capabilities across compute, network, storage, and management
The Cyberport Technology Center launched its new 3D Cloud service by offering free use of this cutting-edge cloud-based 3D rendering technology to contestants of the Hong Kong Youth 3D Animation Competition since 2012.
The 3D Cloud which decreased the need for traditional and high costing rendering equipment, provides a cutting-edge cloud-based 3D rendering platform to local CG production house and local students.
This OpenStack platform offers the incubatess, tenants and ICT practitioners to experience the scalable and flexible computing resources they ever have upon their application/project requirement. More importantly, the platform provides them the opportunity of cloud adoption which enables them to implement a cost-effective IT infrastructure plan for lowering technology costs and creating time for market advantages.
Piston Advanced Solutions Engineer Shawn Madden will demonstrate some of the most interesting capabilities in Piston OpenStack, and explain some of the underlying concepts behind our software.
The Titan (formerly named Pandora), made in Hong Kong, by a Hong Kong man, is a new OpenStack management portal. It aims at improving and fine-tuning some features of the original OpenStack Cloud administration.
Titan is a central administration software for OpenStack. It relies on horizon server, adding extra functions to it. Users can use it to operate the OpenStack cloud. The goal is simple: bringing OpenStack to commercial. The OpenStack project is great, but it splits into many pieces, customers expect a powerful tool to administrate all of them in one. Billing system and monitoring system are on the road map. With these functions, Internet service providers will be getting easier to adopt into OpenStack ecosystem. Helping people and enhancing OpenStack is their missions.
The Pandora which is now open-sourced for everyone will focus on private cloud deployment in helping small and medium enterprises to build and manage their private cloud easier and faster without paying expensive licenses.
In the not so distant past, to master a desktop or server operating system – learn how to install, configure and manage it – all you needed was a PC under your desk. Today, for mastering a clould operating system like OpenStack you could need a bunch of servers, a mentor and some patience, too – Or simply access to Stacklabs, the learning platform for OpenStack. This presentation will show what tools are available within Stacklabs to make in-depth learning and mastering of OpenStack easier.
In this presentation, I'll talk about building a culture of contribution within your organization. I'll cover important aspects, such as:
Along the way, I'll share my experiences with helping Bluehost build the world's largest OpenStack installation, along with experieces at various other employers, and how I've helped them create communities of contribution. I'll also discuss the perspective of communities and community leaders (from my experience as the Fedora Project Leader).
Until recently, Swift was just a passive storage - a deep freezer for your data. That is great for cold data, but what about warm data? Data that, from time to time, you need to scan, search, query or even arbitrarily transform? Until recently, Swift had no solution for those use-cases. That's why we have developed Zwift - a converged compute-storage cloud, based on ZeroVM Hypervisor and Swift Object Storage.
In this session, we would demonstrate how one can easily upgrade ordinary Swift installation to support in-situ data processing, using secure and lightweight ZeroVM hypervisor. Particularly, how to grep, search, query and map-reduce data natively in-Swift, from the comfort of your own browser, while leveraging huge compute capacity of the Swift cluster itself.
Weather information is my personal interests, I started a open source project hk0weather to archive the concept of open data. hk0weather uses scrapy on python and crawl Hong Kong Observatory website, turn weather data provided from its HTML website into JSON format.
In this talk, Sammy will talk about how to use OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) to store weather data for the ‘hk0weather’ project.
ITRI Cloud OS is an end-to-end cloud data center management solution designed for Amazon Web Service-like IaaS. It consists of server virtualization, storage virtualization, Network virtualization, and management virtualization, supports both VM-level and system-level HA, and incorporates load balancing techniques for a wide variety of resources.
In this talk, we will give an overview of ITRI Cloud OS, and report its current status, including its integration with OpenStack.
MidoNet provides an easy and flexible virtual network for layers 2 through 4. With tight integration into OpenStack (no custom OVS required!), MidoNet can create a completely virtual networking solution that is highly scalable and flexible. Come by and get a technical overview of how MidoNet works, as well as customer use cases and integration into Red Hat OpenStack and others.
In striving to meet the demands of the modern creative professional we were increasingly in the position of having to continually change our infrastructure to meet the needs of differing television and film workflows. OpenStack allows us to maintain a highly fluid environment, allocating compute, storage and streaming resources with immediacy and simplicity. In the last year we have deployed our software offering, Critique, using a hybrid OpenStack solution. Critique allows for real time creative collaboration on streaming video. Producers, directors and writers can meet at a video and in real time comment in many ways on that video. For the first time we are seeing an unprecedented efficiency in the approval process. Due to the diversity of clients we serve, from major motion picture studios to independent producers, we were in desperate need of an agile solution that would serve all clients with a limited management footprint. There is no question that the cloud and OpenStack are providing a hereto unforeseen level of creativity and productivity in the entertainment industry. In moving forward with an open source solution we can guarantee that all content producers can share a wealth of ideas without the concern of proprietary data disappearing with the ebb and flow of technology. OpentStack is providing to DigitalFilm tree the cloud solution that scales, grows and is perpetuated based on the ever-changing dynamics of show business.
All9s delivers business continuity for end users working with mixed cloud environments. This includes replication of the tenant space environment and staged recovery within a secondary tenant space environment.
MyCloudLab, which is being developed in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, is a OpenStack cloud testbed with a talior-made web-based management system for the cloud computing administration. It aims at providing an open sourced platform for students to easily experience the environment of cloud computing platform and learn essential techniques of administering a cloud computing system.
In his talk, Edward Archibald, CTO at Continuent, will demonstrate the ease of deploying a multi-site, highly-available, scalable Database-as-a-Service across two OpenStack instances, all within minutes. Once the DBaaS is up and running, he'll demonstrate how applications can connect to the DBaaS and take immediate advantage of its high-availability and scalability properties.
Hitachi Data Systems will demonstrate its broad support of OpenStack across its storage families and file content offerings including midrange and enterprise storage, content management and unified storage servers. Tying together a range of storage access methods and systems, Hitachi can leverage its storage capabilities under the OpenStack framework. Learn the orchestration of OpenStack environments which will be used to manage and monitor the demo!
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure. It lays a solid foundation for you to build and manage private cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)—using truly open, interoperable, easy-to-manage Red Hat products that won’t lock you in.
Red Hat Cloud Infrastructure is built on the trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Using lower-cost open-virtualization technologies lets you increase your private-cloud environment's capacity and combine it with the proprietary virtualization capacity you already have.
This session will provide you an overview of how to get the best out of the Windows and Openstack combination, including Cloudbase-init, Nova and Hyper-V, Ceilometer, Neutron and OpenVSwitch.
Just developed a new feature, and looking to try it out? The process of testing new features can be tedious and time consuming – you need to download, run it, set it up, and then quite often you find that it doesn’t even fit into a single VM or desktop. All this often creates friction in the process.
But, what if you could commit a new feature and immediately let users try it out directly from your GitHub project or blog without any hassle? This session will present a new open source solution that enables you to demo your new features on OpenStack through a single click deployment.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/1gbfHfQ
Come Celebrate the launch of the Rackspace Public Cloud in Hong Kong - The First OpenStack Public Cloud in HK! Join us at Armani/Prive for an evening of cocktails, gourmet delights and to mix & mingle with the OpenStack community!
Close off the Summit in style!
eNovance in partnership with CloudWatt invite you to the Armani Aqua Club!
Come network with the OpenStack community, enjoy great food, entertainment and conversation!
