Linuxcon Presentation – Open Source Toolchains for Cloud Computing

by Mark on August 12, 2010

Here are my slides from today’s talk at LinuxCon on “Open Source Toolchains for Cloud Computing“. The talk focused on what open source tools could be used to create automation for managing cloud computing. I really enjoyed giving the talk and the discussion afterward, it seems that the reality among attendees was that they did very little to automate management but all had a great interest in doing so. I also enjoyed hearing from a Big 4 systems management user who said clearly that their multi-million dollar system didn’t appear to have the same capabilities as the free software solutions I mentioned.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Technorati Tags: , , , ,

{ 0 comments }

DIY iPad Stylus

August 2, 2010

I like my iPad for traveling as it gives me easy access to read and reply to email. However, I don’t like to type on it the same way I would on a regular keyboard, I prefer to use a stylus to hunt and peck rather than my fingers. I also like to draw and [...]

Read the full article →

Open Source Toolchains for Sysadmins

July 30, 2010

In celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt: “Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU [...]

Read the full article →

Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing

July 21, 2010

Here are my slides from today’s talk at today’s OSCON, Open Source Tool Chains for Cloud Computing presented with John Willis (VP of Services at Opscode) and Alex Honor (Founder of DTO Solutions and Leader of the Control Tier Project).  The idea we hoped to convey is that integration between open source tools can help [...]

Read the full article →

Is OpenStack Cloud Computing Rocket Science?

July 19, 2010

There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries