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Your Opportunity to Shape the OpenStack Summit 2014 Agenda. Vote Now!
February 21, 2014/0 Comments/in Events /
OpenStack community members are now voting on presentations to be selected for the upcoming agenda at the OpenStack Summit 2014 event taking place May 12-16, in Atlanta. This is your opportunity to help shape the agenda in order to see and hear the topics you are most interested in learning more about.
The Foundation has already received hundreds of submissions, but your votes can help determine which of these presentations get included on the schedule.
Let your voice be heard!
Virtual Bridges has submitted a variety of presentations from our resident experts, and we’ve also submitted a really great panel discussion with Jon Senger, our chief-strategy officer and Cole Crawford, the executive director of the Open Compute Project Foundation, talking about the pace of innovation and how far OpenStack has come in such a short period of time.
We’ve summarized each talk below and provided a link to its page on the voting site to make things easier. Remember, while it is a community vote, you still have to be a registered member, which means you’ll need to login to OpenStack.org in order to have your vote counted.
If you like what you see in any or all of our presentations, please vote them up! We definitely appreciate your vote, and all of our speakers are excited and passionate about their individual topics.
We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!
Panel Discussion: Pace of Innovation
Jon Senger, Chief Strategy Officer, Virtual Bridges and
Cole Crawford, Executive Director, Open Compute Project Foundation
When you take into consideration how fast and how far OpenStack has come, the question still lingers on whether the customer base is keeping up with the pace of change. In this panel discussion we will explore why making the right choices when planning your infrastructure, intelligently mapping out your cloud early, and deploying cloud-aware applications can make sure that your enterprise stays on the edge without taking the risk. Cole Crawford, the Executive Director of the Open Compute Foundation, and Jon Senger, CSO of Virtual Bridges will attend this panel discussion to explore these questions and provide tips, strategy, and opinions on how to drive success.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/pace-of-innovation
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OpenStack Your VDI
Jon Senger, Chief Strategy Officer, Virtual Bridges
VDI is one of the more intense workloads challenge cloud architecture today. Between density, disk performance, session management, and more, there are quite a few things to consider when deploying VDI on OpenStack. Jon will highlight the core benefits of choosing OpenStack as a platform for VDI, and the core principals to apply when configuring your infrastructure to support this unique and highly sensitive technology.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/openstack-your-vdi
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Case Study: Moving Beyond Servers – How One Customer Took Their Desktops to the Cloud
Brad Sanford, VP of Product and Corporate Alliances, Virtual Bridges
Transitioning the focus from the technical aspects of OpenStack to the customers who use it daily. We are 3+ years in on product development and we are seeing levels of maturity across the projects that warrant a deeper discussion into the “why” OpenStack is becoming the cloud platform of choice. Brad will host a discussion with the first customer to deploy virtual desktops utilizing an OpenStack infrastructure. Join us to learn why this customer views virtual desktop workloads as a valid reason for their use cases.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/case-study-moving-beyond-servers-how-one-customer-took-their-desktops-to-the-cloud
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The Top 10: Five Benefits and Five Challenges of Moving Your Virtual Desktops into the Cloud
Ivo Jansen, Senior Solution Architect, Virtual Bridges
While on-premises virtual desktops are well understood and widely deployed by now, cloud-hosted desktops are still a mystery to many. Come listen to Ivo Jansen at Virtual Bridges to learn about the five top benefits and five top challenges you’ll encounter when moving your desktop workload into the cloud.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/the-top-10-five-benefits-and-five-challenges-of-moving-your-virtual-desktops-into-the-cloud
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How Content Centralization Eases Security Risks
Dennis Jensen, Technical Sales Lead Engineer, Virtual Bridges
The ability to centralize content from a security context is becoming critical not only from a daily operational prospective; but also from a strategic/marketing prospective. This session will discuss how to take advantage of CC by using the combination of VDI and Openstack within the Data Center to dynamically provision Virtual Desktops based on market/user needs w/o risking the corporation’s content in the process.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/how-content-centralization-eases-security-risks
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Mobility and BYOD in the Cloud: Moving Beyond IaaS
Rick Allen, Senior Solutions Architect, Virtual Bridges
Four years ago a top Google executive predicted the desktop would be irrelevant in 3. In fact the global desktop market is still increasing. It’s true that we can do more with our mobile devices and online services than anyone could imagine a decade ago and yet the traditional desktop is necessary to most businesses. Employees want BYOD, SaaS, Cloud data and excellent user experience with all of these. How do you allow use of these new technologies and provide access to legacy applications efficiently and securely? Increasingly companies are turning to server hosted virtual desktops. This session will discuss why this is true and how OpenStack can accelerate this trend.
VOTE: https://www.openstack.org/vote-atlanta/Presentation/mobility-and-byod-in-the-cloud-moving-beyond-iaas
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