Cloud Native Silicon Valley

OpenStack at Mega-scale

Attendees:
in-person
Event date
Apr 2, 14
05:30 PM - 08:30 PM PDT
Location
Symantec Q' Cafe, Mountain View
About this event

5:30 pm: Arrival, networking
6:00 pm: INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
 - Steve Hallett, Symantec; Adrian Ionel, Mirantis

WHAT IS OPENSTACK AT MEGA-SCALE?
SYMANTEC AND EBAY AS CASE STUDIES

- Steve Hallett, Symantec; JC Martin, Ebay
o Workloads and apps: where is the business case
o People and business challenges: 
     • How to get developers to embrace OpenStack 
     • Barriers to adoption, How to solve them 
     • What works/what doesn't  
o Operation at scale: How to get the ops and infra teams trained on OpenStack
o  The road ahead: How can OpenStack meet the needs of mega-scale players?  What are the biggest unsolved technical challenges, and who tackles them

6:45 pm: DEEP DIVE
CONTINUOUS VALIDATION AT MEGA-SCALE

- Vijay Seshadri, Symantec
o What are deployment and configuration challenges
o What design approaches exist? What are the pros- and cons 
o What are the gaps between promise and reality 

7:30 pm: PANEL DISCUSSION
(Symantec, eBay, Yahoo; Adrian Ionel will moderate)

8:00 pm DRINKS/NETWORKING

Speakers/Panelists: 
Vijay Seshadri, Symantec
Steve Hallett, Symantec 
JC Martin, Ebay
Preeti Somal, Yahoo
Adrian Ionel, Mirantis

hosted by: Symantec

Organizers