CloudStack European User Group

Date/Time
Date(s) - 13/06/2019
12:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
Intercontinental Sofia

SUMMER MEETUP OF CLOUDSTACK EUROPEAN USER GROUP

For the first time, the CloudStack European User Group will hold its meetup in Sofia, Bulgaria (hosted by StorPool Storage).

Come along to hear talks from CloudStack experts and users from this vibrant open-source community. We will be discussing various aspects of CloudStack, such as development, history, architecture, operation, the direction of the project and how you can contribute. All welcome!

As always, there will be some great speakers, the chance to meet and collaborate with other CloudStack users, and an informal gathering afterwards over a drink! Lunch from 1200, first talk 1300.

Venue: InterContinental Sofia, 4 Narodno Sabranie Sq, Sofia, 1000, Bulgaria

SPEAKERS & AGENDA TBC

SPEAKERS & AGENDA

Achieving the ultimate performance with KVM (Boyan Krosnov). In this session, we will discuss a private cloud setup with KVM achieving 1M IOPS per hyper-converged (storage+compute) node. We will answer the question: What is the optimum architecture and configuration for performance and efficiency?

CloudStack: A Service Managers Perspective (Maria Barta). Agile business processes are becoming increasingly important in successful IT services. Itelligence Global Managed Services GmbH, too, provides many different ultra flexible and highly adaptable cloud solutions. In order to ensure customer/user satisfaction (i.e. availability, data security and product transparency) and simultaneously facilitate effective agile product development within our team, the role of the service manager is steadily evolving. The talk will provide an insight to the benefits and limitations of CloudStack in relation to the service manager objectives and our attempt to overcome these in our specific internal IaaS solution.

What’s new in CloudStack 4.13. (Paul Angus). CloudStack 4.13 is due for release this summer. With 100s of updates and new features, Paul will go through user features, operator features and integrations, demonstrating just how much work and development is going into CloudStack.

Challenges with high-density networks (Marian Marinov). In cloud environments, the network is considered a given and almost limitless resource. You get an interface and you are told its bandwidth capacity. From the perspective of the client, this is true. But from the perspective of the provider, this is far from the truth. In this talk, Marian will take a look at some DataCenter network designs and what technologies / protocols are used to battle the problem with high-density clouds. You will learn about VXLAN and “L3” switching.

Speakers

Boyan Krosnov is Chief of Product at StorPool Storage, and has been building IT infrastructures for more than 20 years. Prior to StorPool he led the implementation of several triple-play operators from scratch in 5 countries – the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Bulgaria and Malaysia. Now he manages the design and implementation of new-age cloud & storage solutions for public and clouds builders.

Maria Barta is Senior Service Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Services. Employed by itelligence Global Managed Services GmbH since 2017. Maria has over 10 years of project management experience within the service provider environment. She obtained a Master Degree of Science (MSc) in Business Economics at the University of Wales in Swansea. Maria has been studying and working for 12 years in the UK and another 4 years in the Netherlands. In 2013 she returned to live in Germany.

Paul Angus is Chairman / VP of the Apache CloudStack Project, VP Technology / Cloud Architect for ShapeBlue and an Apache CloudStack Committer. He consults with a number of large service providers and enterprises and is responsible for ShapeBlue’s technical strategy. Paul regularly speaks at CloudStack conferences as well as for Ansible at a number of events. Paul has worked with clients such as Centrica, Orange Telecom, SunGard AS, Slovak Telecom, Paddy Power, Sky, TomTom, SAP and British Telecom.

Marian Marinov is a firm believer in Open Source software and specialises in server architecture, designing new scalable systems, server monitoring and highly distributed information analyzers. His experience includes Chief Information Architect at SiteGround.com, and co-founder of 1H.com and getClouder.com. He is one of the founders and organizers of the largest Open Source Conference in the Balkans – OpenFest, and also lectures at Sofia University, Bulgaria.

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