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 it's on …

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 of time …

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 understood (or so …

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 you will, by now …

This year, I have the pleasure of returning to the MySQL Conference & Expo as a speaker. Percona have picked up the torch that O'Reilly had held as the conference organizers, and they're putting together a 3-day conference this year. I am co-presenting a tutorial with Yves Trudeau from Percona.

Our …