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Cisco Open Networking Environment – onePK OpenFlow and OpenStack
Today Cisco is announcing their formal entrance into the SDN (Software Defined Network) market with the introduction of Cisco Open Networking Environment. So what is this Open Networking Environment?...
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VMware’s Acquisition of Nicira – VMware confirming the hypervisor is dead
VMware recently announced its intent to acquire Nicira for 1.2 billion dollars. This acquisition is of interest because it clearly signals VMware’s abandoning of the Hypervisor as a differentiating...
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My name is Colin, and I support OpenStack
Since April of this year (2012) I have been living a secret life. During the day I have been living my normal life, running the Data Center practice at a national VAR driving sales and integration of...
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Scale Computing HC3 – Hyper-Converged Server, Storage, Virtualization
Companies using OpenSource virtualization in their unified products targeting the mid market I have been saying that we will start seeing Open Source virtualization technologies in two different areas...
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VMware approved as a Gold member of OpenStack Foundation
The last couple weeks has been interesting in how VMware will evolve its relationship with OpenStack. Many peoples eyebrows raised when they heard OpenStack mentioned during the keynote at VMworld....
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Come to my session on surviving your first commit at OpenStack summit
I’ll be speaking next week at the Spring 2012 OpenStack summit. If you are going to attend, feel free to attend my session (details are below). Session Details - Tuesday, October 16 – 2:40pm...
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Cisco announces it’s own OpenStack Distribution – What will the effect be on...
Cisco Releases their own Edition of OpenStack Over the past year OpenStack has transformed from an interesting Open Source project used by some large web service providers, to the emerging standard...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Day 1 – Where is Colin?
I am at OpenStack Summit all week today. If you are around I encourage you to say hi to me. My schedule for Monday, October 15 is posted below. If you are here, ping me on Twitter – @colinmcnamara...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Fall 2012 Day 2 – Where is colin
Here is my schedule for Tuesday, October 16 If you are in person or streaming, please feel free to join my session at 2:40 on Surviving your first checkin. Right now, it is the second most attended...
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OpenStack summit Schedule – Thursday – Focusing on Swift Object Storage
We are in Day4 of the OpenStack Design and User summit for Fall 2012. Earlier in this week I have been bouncing between design sessions (figuring out what blueprints we want to work on next), speaking...
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Setting up Cobbler PXE auto-deployment for Ubuntu Server 12.04 Precise
For those that don’t use it, Cobbler is a PXE installation manager for automating the deployment of systems and packages. It is an order of magnitude simpler then creating a custom PXE environment by...
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What is my value to the OpenStack community, and why you should vote for me...
First things first – Search your email for a email titled “OpenStack Foundation – 2013 Individual Director Election” from secretary@openstack.org . It will have a click through link with your...
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OpenStack summit presentations – Every Vote Counts
It’s that time of year again - time for you to vote for what presentations you would like to see at the OpenStack Design Summit. My goal over the past three OpenStack Design Summits has been to speak...
View ArticleOpenStack for VMware admins
At this years VMworld (2013) in San Francisco I had the pleasure of recording a couple video’s. The first video that got recorded was for #vBrownBag. The topic I decided to cover was a Primer on...
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OpenStack Ambassador Program – My Application
Just over a month ago, the OpenStack Foundation announced the OpenStack Ambassador Program. The aim of this program is to create a framework of community leaders to sustainably expand the reach of...
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OpenStack Training Guides Project Overview and Status 10-1-2013
Over the past couple years, those of us involved with OpenStack have had goals creating a lasting and sustaining project by increasing contribution to and adoption of OpenStack. Over this time, there...
View ArticleContributing to OpenStack Training Guides
OpenStack training is gaining steam and momentum. We are almost halfway through the work to finish the associate guide. The most import item for maintaining and accelerating the Training Guides is to...
View ArticleMy goals schedule for OpenStack IceHouse Design Summit in Hong Kong
OpenStack Icehouse Design Summit – My Goals 1. OpenStack Ambassador Program – I’m one of the initial OpenStack Ambassadors. I have a focus on doing whatever is necessary to grow and scale the program....
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Diverging from IETF and IEEE specifications at the northbound AS boundary of...
I have a couple concerns that I don’t feel I clearly communicated during the L3 advanced features session. I’d like to take this opportunity to both clearly communicate my thoughts, as well as start a...
View ArticleApplication for OpenStack individual election – Colin McNamara
Read the Q&A below and see if you want to Nominate Colin in this election. Q What is your relationship to OpenStack, and why is its success important to you? What would you say is your biggest...
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Reader Question – Should I get a second CCIE or focus on SDN + Cloud
I’ve been having lots of conversations recently with CCIE’s about where their future lies, and how to best leverage the skills and value they have created in the past in this new and emerging world of...
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The Holy POM.XML of Antioch
I just came down from the mountains, after a couple of days hacking on a tool-chain i’m proposing for including in OpenDaylight OVSDB for the Hydrogen release. This toolchain takes AsciiDocs as a...
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OpenStack needs beards on the board
Yes, we need more beards on the board. We need big full beards, that represent the interests of the user community. There needs to be a balance against the Manufacturer/Vendor interests that dominate...
View ArticleShort Video – OpenStack Q&A with Colin McNamara
My thoughts and opinions on OpenStack, it’s challenges and directions - Similar Posts: VMware approved as a Gold member of OpenStack Foundation Come to my session on surviving your first commit at...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Presentations – VOTE NOW!
It’s time to vote for presentations for OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. I’ve submitted a few presentations, as well am co-submitting some presentations with people I really respect in the community. I’ve...
View ArticleChanging face of the OpenStack community
The business of OpenStack The business of open source can be dominated by some strong personalities. Many companies are trying to use their first mover advantage to create sustainable business models....
View ArticleOpenStack Training – Dev Track – Lab Learning – 3day Labs (day 2,3,4)
Overview – Developer Training for OpenStack All us bearded (and virtually bearded) OpenStack hippies are at it again, trying to change the world through training and enablement, and a little bit of...
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Why I think Kyle Mestery is right for Neutron – OpenStack PTL Elections
I think the biggest challenge with OpenStack right now is finding a healthy balance between all user archetypes that contribute code. These include (but are not exclusive to) Manufacturer Integrator...
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