OpenStack 101: Open Source Software for Building Private & Public Clouds

Enterprise perception of cloud computing has gone from vendor hype to IT priority. A common first step for many enterprises is to develop a private cloud. However, hybrid cloud computing promises to increase business flexibility and to further reduce cost. Join us as we explore what is a hybrid cloud, why hybrid cloud, how to get started, key considerations, and common use cases.

Speaker:
Jared Wray Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tier 3
As founder and CTO, Jared is architect of Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. Wray founded Tier 3 in 2006 to address the emerging need for enterprise on-demand services and today oversees the development, support and operations of its enterprise-class cloud solution and is responsible for the company’s intellectual property strategy and new product development. Leveraging the tenets of virtualization automation, Wray designed the Tier 3 enterprise cloud to be an agile, self-optimizing platform for customers’ mission-critical, production applications. Wray relies on his extensive experience directly managing or consulting on scaling large Web infrastructures for companies such as Corbis Corporation, Ascentium, and Microsoft. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo.

Only a year old, the OpenStack project has already garnered tremendous momentum with more than 110 member companies. Originally founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack has grown to be a global community of software developers all collaborating on a standard open-source cloud operating system that provides virtually unlimited scalability for developing cloud solutions. This webinar will discuss the basics of OpenStack, why it is significant for “cloud building,” and how you can get started with OpenStack in your enterprise.

Speaker:
John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace Hosting and has been with the company for over 10 years. John frequently speaks with customers, at conferences, and to the press and analyst community on the topic of cloud computing and Rackspace’s role in the future of IT. John is an avid cyclist, camera buff, gadget geek and especially enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters at home in San Antonio.

Big Data has exploded onto the stage in the last 12 months and there’s a lot of hype and confusion about what it is. Big Data is about doing things differently and enabling breakthroughs by getting to information faster. In this session we will discuss the Big Data ABCs - Analytics, Bandwidth, Content and cover its relationship to Hadoop, object repositories and scalable file systems.

Richard is Director, Product Marketing at NetApp where he is responsible for the OnCommand Management Software and Big Data solutions.
Previously Richard served as Vice President of Marketing and Strategy for KnowNow, a start-up delivering enterprise syndication technologies. Richard also served as Vice President of Products at AvantGo, a leading provider of mobile enterprise software, where he was responsible for determining product direction and strategy, as well as, overseeing engineering and product management. Prior to AvantGo, Richard served as Vice President of Engineering and Product Management for BEA Systems where he led efforts in developing the BEA WebLogic Portal. Richard has also held various executive management positions at SCO and Digital Equipment Corporation where he was instrumental in the creation of the X Window and Motif standards. Richard holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Vermont and a B.A. in Sociology from Alfred University.

Cloud computing is experiencing strong, sustained growth across enterprises large and small. Proven benefits like flexibility, cost reduction and rapid provisioning of new applications and services are among the drivers. This webinar will address the questions of: “Where do I start?” and “What’s the right approach for my organization: private, public, or hybrid?” Vaughn Stewart will share data from a recent cloud adoption survey, provide best practices for defining a successful cloud strategy, and give a preview of how other enterprises are moving to the cloud.

Vaughn Stewart is a Director for Cloud Computing and ‘The Virtualization Evangelist’ at NetApp. He has worked with hundreds of customers in designing their virtual data centers and is the coauthor of several technical papers on deploying VMware technologies on NetApp systems. He publishes the blog, The Virtual Storage Guy; has a patent pending; and has held industry certifications on solutions offered by Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, IBM, and NetApp. VMware has recognized him a vExpert in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

“Cloud” has become the number one priority for so many businesses, yet the complexity of combining server virtualization with storage virtualization, automation, self-service catalogs and other enabling technologies has become a huge barrier for the IT teams who have to deliver. The good news is that some vendors have recognized this issue and have partnered to deliver integrated solutions offering the flexibility and cost benefits of cloud on top of familiar infrastructure products. This webinar demonstrates how to implement and automate cloud storage services.

Azmir Mohamed is Sr. Director, Product Management at Abiquo and is responsible for driving their product roadmap activities. He has more than 20 years of IT experience in the areas of server, networking and virtualization. Previously, he held product management and marketing roles at VMware and Cisco. Azmir has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.

Michael Harding works in Product Marketing at NetApp. He has led Product Management and marketing efforts at Brocade, VERITAS/Symantec, Solid Data Systems, Qlusters, Commtouch Software, Critical Path and EDS/HP. Michael earned a degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University in Boston, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

As cloud computing passes the hype cycle, enterprises are now focusing on building the infrastructure stack to deliver cloud services. Hear Joe Onisick, a Data Center Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology, discuss how an “Innovation Stack” enables him to provide best of breed components as single validated solution to his customers. Learn how his customers are reducing time to deployment with increased confidence and speeding their journey to a cloud infrastructure.

Joe Onisick, Technical Solutions Architect for Systems Integrator World Wide Technology and founder of Define the Cloud. Joe is a data center architect with over twelve years’ experience in servers, storage virtualization and networks. Joe works for a systems integrator leading the analysis and adoption of emerging data center technologies and practices. Through his experience as a technology trainer, developer and consultant, Joe has been responsible for instructing, designing and deploying next generation data center technologies and converged infrastructures from product inception. Most recently, as the EMEA CTO for an international training and consulting firm he worked closely with vendors European channel partners to help customers design and deploy converged infrastructures to meet their rapidly changing business demands.

While transactional data is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22%, it’s far outpaced by a 62% CAGR predicted for unstructured data in traditional data centers. By 2014, traditional unstructured data and the unstructured data in content depots are expected to account for 55% of a $31.9B market, according to IDC.

The challenges of storing large, unstructured data (also known as "Big Data") sets are many. In this session, you will 1) learn about the key requirements for building global infrastructures for storing Big Data; 2) learn how you can store hundreds of millions of files or objects and many PBs of data in a single, global repository; 3) learn how to use object storage interfaces and object metadata to more intelligently manage data placement and retention. Participants are encouraged to view our Object Storage 101 webinar ahead of time to review.

Speaker:
Brian Cox is Director of Solutions and Product Management for Object Storage at NetApp. He is responsible for solution and product strategy, requirements and portfolio management for Object Storage as deployed in large content repositories and the Cloud. In his career in IT, Cox has developed and marketed offerings spanning solutions ranging from Enterprise IT to High Performance Computing to solutions for Small & Medium business. Technologies he has led span from storage to servers to software and include the industry’s highest-performing Windows and Linux servers, the first blade server from any major vendor and multiple generations of x86, RISC and Itanium-based servers. His products have earned numerous awards over the years from publications such as InfoWorld, Network World, IT Week, Byte and Windows NT Magazine. Cox holds Bachelor of Science and MBA degrees from Santa Clara University.

In 2010, Gartner placed cloud computing just topping the peak of its emerging technology hype cycle. With many CIOs giving the mandate to investigate or begin to deploy cloud computing, 2011 could be the tipping point for cloud computing. With so many cloud service provider options available, identifying the service provider that best suits the needs of your enterprise can be challenging. In this webinar, we will discuss why choose a service provider (build, buy), how to choose one, and what you should expect from a cloud service provider.