This Week in OpenStack:Now (March 31, 2014 – April 6, 2014)

As the community gears up to look forward with the release of Icehouse next week and the upcoming OpenStack Summit, RightScale has released it’s 2014 State of the Cloud report, Mirantis strikes a history-making deal with Ericsson, and Cisco makes sure nobody forgets it’s a hardware company.

Cloudy with a Chance of Hybrid: the 2014 State of the Cloud report

You can stop arguing over whether enterprises are ready for the cloud. According to Rightscale’s 2014 State of the Cloud Survey, a whopping 94% of enterprises and SMBs are either running applications in the cloud or experimenting with Infrastructure-as-a-Service.  As far as public or private, the answer is, increasingly, “yes”; 74% of enterprises are planning to use a hybrid cloud strategy, with OpenStack (and VMware) leading in private cloud (depending who you ask).  Read the full story

Ericsson engages Mirantis in record-breaking OpenStack deal

Swedish communications technology and services provider giant Ericsson has signed a five-year software licensing deal with Mirantis that is worth a reported $30 million and is thought to be the largest OpenStack-related deal on record.  The company plans to use OpenStack as the software foundation for the telecommunications network, internal data centers and cloud computing services that Ericsson will offer its customers. Read the full story

Is Cisco’s plan to reverse SDN’s advances with OpFlex?

Last week we reported on Cisco’s $2 billion commitment to building the InterCloud.  At the time, we speculated that it was Cisco’s way of keeping its hand in as the world changed around it and headed for the Internet of Everything.  This week we get a better look at Cisco’s real game: turning Software Defined Networking (SDN) on its head and bringing control back to the hardware — or is it? Read the full story

Red Hat

• Essential Talks to Catch at OpenStack Summit Atlanta — Red Hat Open Source Community

• OpenShift Origin community goes agile with GitHub and social coding | opensource.com

• Red Hat | Raising the Bar in Open Souce Capabilities: Cisco and Red Hat

• Red Hat reveals CentOS plans | ZDNet

• Red Hat, Amazon Wreck Computing – TheStreet

VMware

• As Cisco’s SDN Focuses on Policy, Martin Casado Offers an Alternative

• VMware: Price Tag versus OpenStack Immaterial, Says ISI – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com

• Cisco, VMware take SDN battle to policy arena – Network World

• The battle for enterprise cloud takes shape among AWS, OpenStack, VMware – The Troposphere

• The Race for the Software-Defined Enterprise

Cloudscaling

• Cloudscaling Reduces the Complexity of Bringing Openstack into the Enterprise with New Cloud Concierge Service | Cloudscaling

IBM

• How SoftLayer Guided IBM’s Journey To The Cloud

• What’s behind SoftLayer’s cloud infrastructure? | Thoughts on Cloud BlogThoughts on Cloud Blog

HP

• Attending the OpenStack Summit in May? Be Sure to … – HP Enterprise Business Community

• HP: New Style of IT Impossible Without Partners – Page: 1 | CRN

• HP News – European Commission Selects HP to Drive Security for Data Sharing in the Cloud

Tesora

• Tesora Partners With hastexo to Deliver World’s First Enterprise-Class Trove Training | Virtual-Strategy Magazine

• Tesora seeks riches in OpenStack’s Trove, elastic scale-out databases

Intel

• Intel plays defense against ARM with Cloudera stake – Computerworld

Suse

• Announcing a New SUSE-Microsoft Collaboration on Cloud Technologies

Juniper

• Juniper, Wedge collaborate on open cloud | ITWeb

Rackspace

• Rackspace Selected by British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to Host for Website Peak Performance for Awards Season Traffic Spikes

Pluribus

• “What VMware was to server virtualisation we want to be to network virtualisation” – Pluribus – 02 Apr 2014 – Computing News

• Pluribus Networks Expands to Europe with Deployments in the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy and Portugal | The InfoStrides

Vendor Announcements

• Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise to Address the Network Application Challenge with New Access Switch, Added Analytics and SDN Capabilities

• Aspera Drive Delivers Extreme File Sharing To The Desktop | Benzinga

• Contract Manufacturer Jabil Sells Straight Into Hyperscale Datacenters

• ElasticBox gets $9M funding from Nexus Venture Partners & Intel Capital – MediaNama

• Emulex Announces Ethernet Networking And Converged Network Adapters For The Open Compute Project – TheStreet

• Extreme Networks Debuts SDN 2.0 Architecture

• Growth in Cloud Service Provider Market Drives Flexiant Adoption | WebHostMagazine | The Hosting Authority

• Nexenta to Showcase the Benefits of Software Defined Storage in Hosted Environments at WHD.global 2014 | Cloud Computing Journal

• Open Source Storage Launches Open Cluster ZX

• ProphetStor(TM) Elevates Vendor Agnostic Software-Defined Storage With Elastic Management and Reduced Storage Costs for Enterprises in Federator(TM) SDS

• Sardina Systems Announces FishDirector for OpenStack Data Center Automation – PR.com

• Softbank Telecom and Midokura Collaborate on SoftBank’s Initiative, “IT Infrastructure Standardization Project” – Midokura

• Spirent Demonstrates Industry’s First Open Framework Cloud Test Platform with Wedge Networks’ Next-Generation Network Security Solution – BWWGeeksWorld

• Storage Made Easy Blog » Blog Archive » OpenStack Swift Android App released

• StorageNewsletter » « Astute Networks Gaming-Changing New Features Include NFS and OpenStack Support. »

• StorageNewsletter » CloudBerry Backup V3.8 With Cloud-to-Cloud and Cloud-to-Local Backup Support for Public Cloud

• Telefónica buys cloud desktop startup eyeOS

• Telefónica focuses on network innovation with UNICA | Telefónicawatch Report #85 February-March 2014 | Telefonicawatch | Market Mettle

• WSO2 Technology Experts Will Explore How to Take Advantage of Apache-Based Enterprise PaaS Capabilities at ApacheCon North America 2014 | North Fork Vue

Commentary and Other News

• “Open Network Linux” could boost viability of vendor-neutral switches | Ars Technica

• Cloud Computing’s Watershed Week – NYTimes.com

• Creating the Gold ‘Standard’ for Cloud Computing | Innovation Insights | Wired.com

• DevOps and OpenStack Disrupt the Enterprise | The Path To Open Hybrid Cloud

• Enterprises slowly but steadily adopt open source storage software – Cloud News

• Five Models For Open Source Revenue – Software – CRN India

• Is OpenStack Ready for the Enterprise? Maybe.

• IT Embracing the Cloud as Best Way to Deliver Value to Enterprises

• Joerg’s Storage Blog: Is 2014 the Year of Object Based Storage?

• Keynote: OpenStack Co­Opetition, A View from Within – YouTube

• Open source cloud tools preferred, but IT skills, standards needed

• Open source software and tools for the enterprise | opensource.com

• OpenStack in Asia – Where Business Agility Trumps Cost Savings | Linux

• Say Goodbye to the Noisy Neighbor! | Hosting Blog

• The Hottest Technology Trends of 2014 | Zumasys, Inc.

• The key to moving to DevOps is adopting the open source way | opensource.com

• Trimming the fat in the cloud – Tech Opinion | The Star Online

• What the latest cloud explosion really means | Cloud computing – InfoWorld

• MBaaS, Cloud Computing and Architectures for Enterprise Mobility | Cloud Computing Journal

Vulnerabilities

• [RHSA-2014:0367-01] Moderate: openstack-swift security update – Upcoming News – Compatible Support Forums

• [RHSA-2014:0368-01] Moderate: openstack-keystone security update – Upcoming News – Compatible Support Forums

• AusCERT – ESB-2014.0437 – [Linux][RedHat] OpenStack 3: Multiple vulnerabilities

• Axetel Consulting | RHSA-2014:0364-1: Important: ruby193-libyaml security update

Events

• April 8, 2014, San Francisco, CA: OpenStack Trademark Update (DefCore)

• April 9, 2014, Montreal, Canada: PyCon

• April 9, 2014, Boston, MA: OpenStack Boston Meetup

• April 10, 2014, San Francisco, CA: Webinar: Planning Your OpenStack Proof of Concept

• April 10, 2014: Google+ Hangout: UForge Application Automation & Marketplace Platform – OpenStack Online Meetup (Mountain View, CA) – Meetup

• April 12, 2014, Mumbai, India: OpenStack India Meetup

• April 13th, 2014, San Francisco, CA: Gluster Community Announces Data Liberate: an Open Source Storage Hackathon & Mixer — Red Hat Open Source Community

• April 14th-17th, 2014, San Francisco, CA: OpenStack Private Cloud: Accelerate Your ROI – Webcast – 2014-03-19 13:00:00 EDTRed Hat Summit,

• April 17, 2014, Mountain View, CA: SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO

• April 17, 2014, Sunnyvale, CA: SFBay OpenStack

• April 17, 2014: SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO

• April 17, 2014 Amsterdam, Netherlands: Icehouse Release Party!

• April 17, 2014: Running OpenStack User Groups

• April 22-23, 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa:  SAFNOG

• April 22, 2014, Columbia, MD: Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift Seminar | Red Hat Services

• April 26, 2014, Bangalore, India:  OpenStack India Meetup

• April 29, 2014, Mexico City, Mexico: OpenStack Day Mexico

• April 29, 2014, Paris, France: OpenStack Paris Meetup

• May 1st, 2014, Sunnyvale, CA: SFBay Meetup – Beginner track

• May 1st, 2014: SFBay OpenStack Hackathon #OSSFO

• May 5, 2014: OpenStack Networking With Neutron | ONUG

• May 6, 2014, Webinar: Beyond Installation: Managing Your OpenStack Cloud – May 6 2014

• May 9, 2014, Berlin, Germany: OpenStack DACH Day at LinuxTag 2014

• May 12-16, 2014, Atlanta, GA: OpenStack Summit May 2014

• May 21st, 2014, Boston, MA: OpenStack IceHouse and Juno releases, technical review, sponsored by Red Hat – Openstack Boston

• June 10th-12th, 2014, San Francisco, CA: OpenStack Security Conclave – SFBay OpenStack (San Francisco, CA) – MeetupOpenStack and the Future of Computing | SYS-CON MEDIA

• June 17 – 18, 2014, London, England: What do the ODCA, OpenStack, DCA, CSA predict on the future of Cloud

Community and Developer News

With just over a week until the release of OpenStack Icehouse, release candidates are starting to appear.  It also means we’re getting close to the next summit, and you know what that means: the OpenStack User survey!  Don’t forget to participate by April 11 to have your answers counted.  The OpenStack Docs team is also looking for feedback on how to make that process easier, and if you’re attending PyCon in Montreal (or even if you’re not) you might want to consider participating in the Port OpenStack to Python 3 sprint.  Finally, if you’re involved in an open source project that’s important to OpenStack, considering submitting a proposal to Open Source @ OpenStack Summit.

• Companies contributing to Icehouse: preliminary results | Bitergia’s blog

• Developer – Sprint at Pycon: Port OpenStack to Python 3

• Docker use and challenges | As the IT crumbles

• Graffiti – OpenStack

• Laying Stones for Mozilla India Developer Engagement v2.0

• Migrating Wikimedia Labs to a new Data Center — Wikimedia blog

• OpenStack at Mega-scale: Meetup, 2 April Wednesday – Pure Play OpenStack.

• OpenStack Documentation Contributions

• OpenStack Heat Link-Dump | Professional OpenStack

• OpenStack Icehouse Release Candidate 1

• OpenStack Summit – now with more Ops » The OpenStack Blog

• Participate in the OpenStack User Survey by April 11! » The OpenStack Blog

• SSL/TLS Everywhere – visions of a secure OpenStack | Orderly Chaos

• TechWell | Atlanta OpenStack Summit: OpenStack Grows Up

• The InIT Cloud Lab Seed Project | InIT Cloud Computing Lab

• The OpenStack Summit agenda has a track for everyone – 推酷

• #vBrownBag at OpenStack Summit, first Sponsor | Professional OpenStack

• Call for Proposals Open Source @ OpenStack Summit » The OpenStack Blog

• Celebrate Firefly and Icehouse | Loïc Dachary

Featured Tutorials

• Software Defined Boden: Managing OpenStack & SoftLayer Resources From A Single Pane of Glass With Jumpgate

• Developing with Cloud Images for Fun and Profit – Rackspace Developer Center

• Client Challenges for Infrastructure APIs

• Autoscaling with Heat on Devstack | Professional OpenStack

• Create Windows stack using Heat Orchestration Template in Openstack ~ The Technology chronicle!!!

• Windows Images for OpenStack

• Howto Create A Minimal Viable OpenStack Deployment With Devstack In Your Local LAN

• Intro 1 Basic Networking Router Part 1 – YouTube

• Openstack Resources Cleanup Script – Cloudwatt

• Public Key Document Signing for Oslo Messaging | Adam Young’s Web Log

You can also find additional tutorials here.