As you probably know I spend a lot of time travelling to interesting cities and making video of interesting people in the IT infrastructure business. This month it was my first trip to Vancouver where the openStack Summit was held last week.
With my amazing crew of vBrownBag team members and a lot of OpenStack community members we made 85 TechTalk videos over four days. You can find the schedule and links to all the videos here. Alternatively go straight to the playlist of all the videos on YouTube.
There were a heap of great videos on a variety of topics. One that I really like was by Yuiko Takada and was about managing the cultural differences in a team distributed across Japan, China and India. I am fascinated by these sociological differences and their impact on business and technology.
Some of the themes we saw were database as a service and a lot of networking projects. I was surprised not to have more about containers and that we had nothing about OpenStack on OpenStack (OoO) which was a bit of a theme at the Paris summit last year.
While I was at the summit I saw a big piece of news from my friends at SimpliVity. They have KVM hypervisor support for their hyper converged platform, OmniStack. In addition they support OpenStack as the management layer on top of KVM. I’m excpecting that they will announce support for at lkeast one more hypervisor this year. It seems that support for multiple hypervisors is a must have for hyperconverged products.
The next OpenStack summit is in Tokyo at the end of October. The vBrownBag crew will be there and will be making TechTalk video again.
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