Today, as you’ve probably noticed if you’re following the development of the Ceph stack, something mighty cool has been happening. The ceph.com web site received a major makeover with a slick new design, and the people behind Ceph have announced the launch of a brand new company …

I’ve just returned from the OpenStack Folsom Design Summit and Spring 2012 Conference, and am finally getting rid of my jet lag. Here’s a summary of what’s been a mind-blowing conference experience for me.

I’ll be speaking at OSCON 2012 in Portland, on high availability in OpenStack.

I learned from O’Reilly yesterday that my presentation proposal for this year’s OSCON, which takes place July 16-20, 2012 in Portland, Oregon, has been accepted. As this is my first OSCON speaking slot (actually …

I just learned that my presentation is going ahead at the OpenStack Spring 2012 Conference.

My presentation, Reliable, Redundant: High Availability in OpenStack, has been accepted for the main conference track. The official schedule isn’t yet up pending confirmation from all speakers, but I’ve been tentatively informed that …

A few thoughts on high availability features (or the current absence thereof) in OpenStack.

I’ve just proposed a session for the OpenStack Folsom design summit which Jay Pipes was nice enough to invite me to (thanks!), and I thought I’d write up a few thoughts of mine ahead …