[AusNOG] Openstack Users Group - Meeting tonight (also, in todays Commsday)

[Skeeve Stevens]

Hey all,

Todays Commsday had an article about 'OpenStack', the new open-source Cloud
Operating system (article below).  Tonight the Openstack Users group is
having a meeting in Sydney, and all are welcome.

Australian Users Group for OpenStack (http://aosug.openstack.org.au)

Tonights event details are at: http://
aosug.openstack.org.au/events/49679462/

About Openstack - From the Website: http://openstack.org/

If you are in hosting, knowing what is happening with Openstack is a must.
 Huge names are already involved and sponsoring the movement - Dell, F5,
Citrix, Cisco, Rackspace, Riverbed, HP, Brocade, Arista, NEC, Akamai, SuSE
and sooo many more - check out: http://openstack.org/community/companies/

If you are in the IT Media and want to come along, please come and identify
yourself to one of the organisers if you want to ask any questions.

See you there all.


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New cloud technology takes aim at VMware

A NASA-developed technology is shaping up as the “de facto cloud computing
standard operating system,” according to the founder of a new Australian
tech user group.

 The Australian Users Group for OpenStack has been formed to raise
awareness around the technology, which was first released two years ago.
The compute aspect of OpenStack was developed by NASA in an effort to
provide in-house cloud computing facilities across US government
departments; RackSpace, for its part, had developed a model to enable
massive scalable storage across hardware. The two entities eventually came
together to release the offering as an open sourced product.

 Local group founder and Aptira MD Tristan Goode told CommsDay that despite
successful deployments overseas, Australian corporations had been slow to
get onto the technology. “Paradoxically, we have the biggest OpenStack
deployment on the planet – the NeCTAR project driven by the University of
Melbourne, which is a massively scalable compute resource for their group
computing departments that willbe spread out across six universities across
the country… but there’s not a lot of coverage of this in the Aussie
media,” he said.

 Despite its lack of publicity, Goode said that OpenStack was shaping up as
“the de facto cloud computing standard operating system” – and a direct
competitor to VMware. “And because it’s open sourced people are looking at…
their VMware [deployments] and thinking ‘well we’re spending a lot of money
on this, why don’t we have a look at this stuff?’” he added.

 The OpenStack technology is suited to both the corporate/enterprise and
residential markets, according to Goode. “If you want your data stored on
seven different nodes across three different locations, it’s quite scalable
and resilient like that. We’re looking at the corporate market with our
offering as using that for backup. At the moment it’s not ready for
prime-time in putting critical stuff on but it will develop to that. But we
see this as being a critical technology infrastructure of the future and
we’re betting the farm on it.”

David Edward
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Gratefully re-posted from Commsday.


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