It never fails. Someone manages to break their Pacemaker cluster, and Henrik starts preaching his usual sermon of why Pacemaker is terrible and why you should never-ever use it. And when that someone is GitHub, which we all know, use and love, then that sermon gets a bit of excess attention. Let's take a quick look at the facts.

Next week, I will be speaking at the inaugural CloudOpen conference in San Diego. This is your chance to learn about OpenStack high availability and Ceph!

August 29-31, San Diego hosts the first CloudOpen conference, colocated with LinuxCon North America. CloudOpen is the Linux Foundation's brand new, stack-agnostic cloud …

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 to drive …

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, it's my first …