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 …

Here’s a quick summary of my past and current relationship with the DRBD User’s Guide.

As you probably know, I created the original DRBD User’s Guide several years back, and I maintained it throughout my time at Linbit. When I left last year, it was originally mutually …

Haven’t heard of Ceph, the open-source distributed petascale storage stack? Well, you’ve really been missing out. It’s not just a filesystem. It’s a filesystem, and a striped/replicated block device provider, and a virtualization storage backend, and a cloud object store, and then some.

Most of …