For the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Portland, Syed Armani and I have submitted a talk on OpenStack high availability. Here's how you can make sure it makes it into the program.

Our talk, More reliable, more resilient, more redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and beyond, is an extended overview …

linux.conf.au 2013 has kicked off this morning, and here is a brief preview of my talks and related activities this week.

This afternoon, as part of the Cloud, Distributed Storage and High Availability miniconf, I am moderating the Grand Distributed Storage Debate. In this debate, we'll have Sage …

Over the past couple of years, it seems that the term ecosystem is being broadly applied to what we previously called a community. I don't like that, and here's why.

The origin of the term ecosystem, when applied to the environment in which a software project is being developed, used …

During lunch at the EMEA OpenStack day in London this week, I had a brief but excellent conversation with fellow OpenStacker Adam Spiers from SUSE. Our chat turned to the merits of working from home, and he encouraged me to write up a blog post about some of the ideas …

Early next month, I'll be off to Barcelona for speaking at LinuxCon Europe. Here's an overview of my talks.

November 5-7, the Linux Foundation is holding the annual LinuxCon Europe in one of Europe's most beautiful cities — some say the most beautiful — Barcelona. I will be attending the full conference …