Openness doesn’t stop and end with the submission of some format to a standards body or with the announcement of partners endorsing some specific technology platform. It doesn’t stop and end with open source either. An open cloud isn’t about having some singular feature. It’s about maximizing a wide range of characteristics that push the needle from closed to truly open. These include open source and open standards for sure. But they also include portability of applications and data, viable and independent communities, freedom from IP encumbrances, and APIs that are independent of specific implementations.
The audience for this session is anyone wanting to better understand how to minimize lock-in when building or developing on a cloud, whether private, public, or hybrid. Only a general understanding of cloud computing is required.
As enterprise adoption of cloud computing accelerates, organizations must have a strategy and plan for moving to the cloud. What should you put into public clouds? Should you create a private cloud? Should you use cloud applications, platform or infrastructure? How should organizations get started on the road to cloud computing? This session explores best practices for how organizations can move to cloud computing.
Like system calls, Cloud API's are the bridge to the back end infrastructure that interface with the complex hardware below. Join a panel discussion with Marten Mickos, Cole Crawford, Reuven Cohen & Sam Ramji for a discussion on the current landscape of the technology people are calling the new anti vendor lock.
The ability for enterprise IT to effectively leverage cloud computing means a transformational change in the way that IT thinks about and executes system design, development, and implementation. For many organizations, there is still much confusion around technical approaches, including the proper use of open systems technology. Those who sell highly proprietary technology are creating both hype and confusion. In many instances, the proper approaches get pushed to the back of the room.
In this presentation, David Linthicum will take the mystery out of both cloud computing, and the proper fit and function of open systems technology when building a cloud computing strategy. Instead of mere theory, this session will guide you through a step-by-step process for understanding your own requirements, creating the business cases, and selecting the right technology that will lead your enterprise to success in the cloud.
There is a constant quest to identify the ideal big data solution and more so on the cloud. Is Big data = NOSQL or Hadoop or some combination of these technologies with BI ? Cognizant recently did a successful large scale implementation of Big data analytics platform with a full stack of open source BI + Visualizatoin / Hadoop/Hive based data processing layer on Linux with Chef based deployment and Zenoss/Nagios based monitoring.
In this presentation (or could be panel discussion)- We will provide a architectural blue print for big data stack on cloud and talk about our insights / experience / benefits gained. The key audience include everyone from Business to operations. It would cover generics (ROI / approach ) and deep dive as needed.
The advantages of storing data in the cloud are many: ubiquitous access to data from multiple devices, social interaction and sharing with others on the web and no extra software to install.
ownCloud is the first and most ubiquitous FOSS solution to run on the server or computer of the user or on an internal company server -- giving the user the benefits of cloud computing and control of the data. ownCloud integrates with desktop applications so that the users has cloud features combined with the security and the good cost structure of in house file servers.
ownCloud is a very active open source project which was founded in 2010 and has seen enormous growth since than. The main features are syncing and sharing of file, encryption, calendar and contacts syncing, media player, photo gallery and more.
Less than one year after the Red Hat acquisition of Gluster, Inc,the Gluster community is growing up. Every day, more users and developers come to appreciate the simplicity, ease of use, and flexibilty of scale-out data storage, GlusterFS style. In this talk, attendees will learn about the project's history, the most recent release, the in-process developer sprint, and what new features are just around the corner.
Chen will share exclusive IDC research and data that illustrates and forecasts the cloud systems software market, its evolution from server virtualization and why it is transforming the way people build clouds. He will also include deployment strategies for cloud system software, customer perceptions and the role of open source software, standards and APIs in this emerging enterprise environment.
While we’re all acutely aware of cloud computing benefits, few enterprises truly optimize cloud computing investments by migrating mission-critical applications to a cloud environment. But, as businesses gain confidence in the cloud, they will increasingly look to shift enterprise applications from traditional physical environments to external cloud platforms to take advantage of the flexibility, scalability and cost benefits of cloud computing.
In this session targeted for IT professionals, we’ll share best practices for shifting critical enterprise applications into the cloud to improve performance and increase efficiencies. Sean Jennings, vice president of solutions architecture for Virtustream will discuss Virtustream’s work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and present real-world case studies that highlight tangible benefits achieved from cloud-based deployments and will offer attendees tips for migrations.
Aedo will discuss how OpenStack is democratizing access to high performance cloud resources, previously only available to the massive web-scale companies. He will focus on how to deploy OpenStack as efficiently as possible, lowering the barrier to entry and reducing the footprint. Aedo will outline specifics on why the OpenStack framework has been widely adopted and is rapidly growing, including:Cost, Licensing, Community, Breadth of Offering, Scalability, and Interoperability.
Aedo's discussion will be aimed at CIOs and vice presidents of Technology, as well as project managers looking to deploy OpenStack today. Conference attendees can expect a discussion centered on the merits of open source cloud software, as well as vital background information on how users can expect OpenStack to impact users’ cloud experience. The talk is for those in the intermediate range of technical experience.
In this talk I will speak about the motivations that have lead to the current generation of Big Data Architectures, what course their evolution has taken, what are the big challenges in front and how they may evolve. I will spend some time on some of the industry use cases where these systems are great and some others where they are not so great. I will also talk about challenges of running these systems on cloud infrastructure and provide ideas on how some of those could be overcome.
If you are Zynga, Netflix, or the next hot web startup, the cloud provides you with programmatic access to vast storage and computing resources and the ability to scale your app by launching hundreds of load-balanced servers as needed.
Increasingly, however, it is small and medium businesses and traditional IT departments that are looking to the cloud to complement, and in some cases replace, their existing infrastructure.
They are attracted to the self-service capabilities of the cloud, a giant IT vending machine that can deploy complete applications with the push of a button and which can be later customize and managed as needed.
This talk will describe in detail this new wave of cloud usage. It will draw from our experience packaging BitNami stacks, which have been deployed millions of times and power the products of the leading commercial open source companies.
Software applications are increasingly being developed and deployed in the cloud, and use of open source software is more prevalent than ever. It is critical for technology managers to be aware that there are open source license obligations that are unique to cloud based products. For instance the Affero version of GPL (AGPL) license extends the GPLv3 rules to applications that are not distributed (i.e. cloud-based applications). This presentation will highlight how license compliance differs and what license compatibility issues arise when developing for the cloud compared to developing products for distribution.
This presentation will equip technology managers with the knowledge to manage open source software used in for cloud based applications. This knowledge will help increase development velocity and reduce costs, while ensuring open source compliance throughout the industry.
