My Ceph tutorial from LinuxCon Europe 2012. Presented in Barcelona in November of 2012, this is a dense summary of the features of the Ceph distributed storage stack.

This tutorial gives an overview of

• Native RADOS object storage,
• The RBD block device,
• ReSTful object storage with radosgw,
• the Ceph distributed …

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 …

An update on high-availability development during the OpenStack Folsom development cycle. This presentation was delivered August 30, 2012 in San Diego, California. It was part of the inaugural CloudOpen conference hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Following up on my earlier talks at OpenStack Summit and OSCON, I summarized the high-availability …

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 …

This presentation was delivered July 17, 2012 at OSCON in Portland, Oregon.

I summarize high availability in OpenStack Folsom, particularly OpenStack integration with the Pacemaker high availability cluster stack.

I talk about high availability shortcomings in OpenStack Essex, comparing OpenStack to some of its important competitors. I then explain how …