Much of the appeal for enterprise IT managers to introduce cloud computing within their organizations is to take advantage of the efficiencies that automation and self-service can bring to infrastructure. But the real economics of private cloud can be surprising.
Joshua McKenty, one of the founders of OpenStack, will discuss some of the surprising realities of cloud costs, including:
Troy Klein, Staff Hosting Engineer for Sony Computer Entertainment America, will discuss his experiences rolling out an OpenStack private cloud proof of concept and evaluating alternative cloud solutions.
The OpenStack community is in the process of establishing an OpenStack Legal Working Group to provide a forum to discuss and provide guidance on a number of legal issues that relate to OpenStack, including, the licensing model, the contributor agreement and contribution process, the trademark policy and guidelines and the governance model. In this session, we will provide some history and background about the OpenStack project, identify and discuss some of the current legal topics related to OpenStack and discuss the framework for the OpenStack Legal Working Group. Attendees will have an opportunity to meet the open source legal professionals from other OpenStack community members and participate in helping to guide the strategic and tactical direction of the new OpenStack Legal Working Group.
Using OpenStack for Canonical's Internal Needs
Canonical has for principle to always be the first users of the
technologies that we recommend. Following this principle, the Canonical
IS team opened access two month ago to our own internal cloud, based on
OpenStack Diablo, serving the needs of our developers and testers.
This session will focus on best practices/lessons learned from our own
internal cloud experience.
