• “99.999% available OpenStack Cloud – A builder’s guide” – This talk will provide insight in how to build a highly available OpenStack cloud together with Ceph in a classical highly available data centers with e.g. two fire compartments and redundant infrastructure. The focus will be on failure scenarios and their impact on OpenStack and Ceph components, quorum devices you have to consider, strategies on how to ensure quorums and keep the cloud running, pitfalls and solutions.
• “NFV orchestration powered by OpenStack” – This talk would be about existing OpenStack orchestration projects and how they can be used to manage a NFV Cloud, how they integrate, what is missing, and how to map these projects on the ETSI-NFV model.

The next OpenStack Summit will take place in Tokyo, Japan from 27-30 October 2015. The Call for Speaker period is open since some days and will close on July 15th, 2015, 11:59 PM PDT (July 16th, 08:59 CEST).You can submit your presentations here. I my…

After two days the first “Deutsche OpenStack Tage” ended. There have been many interesting presentations and discussions on OpenStack and also Ceph topics. You can find the slides from my talk about “Ceph in a security critical OpenStack Cloud” on slid…

Next week, from 23.-24.06.2015, the “German OpenStack Days” (Deutsche OpenStack Tage) take place in Frankfurt. I will give a talk about “Ceph in a security critical OpenStack Cloud” on Wednesday. The presentations are conducted in German, so it’s …

Finally back from Vancouver, back from an interesting week at the OpenStack Summit including a quite packed schedule with many interesting presentations, work sessions and meetings. I presented together with Sage Weil about “Storage security in a …