The computing needs of today's world are very diverse and a handful of cloud service providers cannot handle these needs. We are seeing an emergence of federated cloud ecosystems with many hosting providers, datacenters and telecom companies transforming to a cloud model. Projects like OpenStack accelerate this evolution. With federation comes the problem of discovery and a marketplace for trading various services. In this talk, I am going to highlight the evolution of federated cloud ecosystems and discuss how we can address the issue of discovery and marketplace.
Swift in the Small
Swift can be a great object storage solution for smaller deployments. This talk will discuss the rationale for using a small-scale Swift cluster and strategies for starting with a single storage node and growing into a largecluster. Even at 10's or 100's terrabytes, Swift can be a highly durable storagesystem.This talk was previously presented at a bay-area OpenStack meetup: http://joearnold.com/swift-in-the-small/
