Piston to Exhibit and Present at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver
Company to provide unique insights into improving OpenStack ecosystem and showcase new capabilities of CloudOS, the operating system for the modern data center
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Piston Cloud Computing, Inc. today announced details of its participation at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. In addition to exhibiting in booth #T53, Piston team members and customers will participate in the following speaking sessions:
Tuesday, May 19
4:40pm - 5:20pm
Mad Stacks: Beyond Thunderdome
Location: Room 114/115
Moderator: Randy Bias
Featuring: Christopher MacGown, Co-founder and CTO, Piston Cloud, Jesse Proudman, Founder and CTO, Blue Box, Chris Kemp, Founder and CSO, Nebula, Boris Renski, Founder and CMO, Mirantis
Judged by: Caroline McCrory, GigaOm and two guest members from the audience
Experts who have deployed OpenStack in each of five methodologies — services, appliances, distributions, DIY and consulting — will engage in a judged debate, each making their cases for the best OpenStack deployment model.
Wednesday, May 20
11:50am - 12:30pm
Panel: How to Select an OpenStack Distribution that's Right for You
Location: Room 114/115
Featuring: Shawn Madden, Product Manager, Piston Cloud, Seth Fox, VP of Operations, Solinea, Azmir Mohamed, Sr. Director of Product Management, PLUMgrid, Mark Williams, CTO, Redapt
OpenStack distributions are gaining preference in the market because they provide pre-packaged installers and automation, add reference architectures and add enterprise class support options. This panel will provide insight on what they see in the OpenStack distribution landscape.
12:30pm – 12:50pm
Marketplace Theater Lite – Cloudvendors: Age of Ultra-OpenStack
Location: Market Place Theater: West Level 1 - Hallway
Featuring: Shawn Madden, Product Manager, Piston Cloud
This demo will highlight some of the most interesting capabilities of Piston CloudOS, including high availability, automated deployments and explain some of the underlying concepts behind Piston's turn-key software.
4:30pm - 5:10pm
Panel: The Entrepreneur's Challenge: The Realities of Starting an OpenStack Company
Location: Room 116/117
Panel: Christopher MacGown, Co-founder and CTO, Piston Cloud, Ken Rugg, CEO, Tesora, Jesse Proudman, CTO, Bluebox, Joe Arnold, CEO, Swiftstack, Simon Anderson, Dreamhost & Inktank
The explosive growth of OpenStack is creating a host of opportunities for people looking to start new companies. This panel of OpenStack companies, including Tesora, Piston Cloud Computing, Bluebox, and SwiftStack will explore the challenges of founding a company and provide advice to prospective entrepreneurs.
Additional Resources
Piston website
Piston customer case studies
Piston CloudOS
Piston blog
Piston on Twitter
This year's OpenStack Summit will include speakers, panels, and end user sessions for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack. For more information or to register for the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, please visit https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/
About Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
Founded in 2011, Piston Cloud Computing makes software that enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily deploy highly-available frameworks, services, and tools on commodity hardware, without wrestling with infrastructure plumbing. Customers like Swisscom, King Digital Entertainment, Intelemage, Radio Free Asia, and Zulily use Piston CloudOS™ to automate their IT operations and bring new software products to market faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and funded by True Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Swisscom Ventures, Cisco Systems, Inc., Data Collective, and Divergent Ventures. For more information, please visit: http://pistoncloud.com
SOURCE Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
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