Presenters

Beautiful Boris
Boris Renski
Mirantis co-founder and EVP responsible for helping define Mirantis’ strategic vision and executing on it in the marketplace across the OpenStack ecosystem. Boris is a member of the OpenStack Foundation Board. Over the last 15 years Boris has held executive positions with several companies he helped establish and sell. He holds a BSC in Information Systems from Santa Clara University. 

psiwczak
Piotr Siwczak
With a strong background in web-scale compute infrastructure automation, and high performance computing, Piotr has been an active Openstack advocate since its inception. He's deployed a production-grade IaaS cloud based on Essex for a large European dotcom. At Mirantis, he consults and trains engineers in using OpenStack and is the author of many technical articles. Piotr lives in Poznan, Poland. 

On-Demand Webcast
What's New in OpenStack:
Folsom Release Overview

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(originally presented Thursday 4 Oct 2012)

With baseline features set and hardening for enterprise usage in place, the Folsom release marks OpenStack’s transition from a service provider platform to an enterprise ready solution.

Targeted to experienced OpenStack users and cloud infrastructure teams considering new deployments, this overview of what's new with the Folsom Release features Boris Renski, EVP and Co-founder of Mirantis and member of the OpenStack Foundation Board; and Piotr Siwczak, Senior Staff Engineer at Mirantis and contributor to OpenStack.

Key topics include:

  • Synopsis of market developments since the April Essex release
  • New capabilities and user features: Nova, Cinder, Keystone, hypervisor support
  • Quantum and Load Balancer as a Service
  • Under-the-covers with key new architectural features 
  • Supplementary Resources about Folsom

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