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Upcoming OpenStack New York Meetup – March 20

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Greetings!

On Tuesday, March 20, AppFirst will be hosting our next OpenStack New York Meetup. This lab-session will be held at Dogpatch Labs on 36 East 12th Street, 2nd Floor, Manhattan, NY.

Monty Taylor, manager of Automation and Deployment at HP, will be our guest speaker and will be running a lab session. This will be an in-depth, hands-on session on how to set-up OpenStack. We’ll walk through setting up devstack, with the end result of creating a working OpenStack development environment by the end of the night. And thanks to the folks at HP, everyone will be up and running on HP cloud hardware. So make sure to bring your laptop!

If anyone’s interested, Monty can also present how to stand-up a larger deployment in an automated fashion.

Join us at 6:30 for some pizza and beer, and we’ll get started at 7. Hope to see everyone there!

Some links for further reading:

HP Cloud Services – http://hpcloud.com/

Monty Taylor’s blog – http://inaugust.com/

Follow Monty on Twitter – http://twitter.com/e_monty

George Vanecek speaks at the first OpenStack NY Meetup

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The inaugural OpenStack NY user group Meetup was a success. About 40 souls braved the weather to come listen to George Vanecek, PhD, principal architect at Huawei, share why cloud computing is important and why specifically they are excited about OpenStack.  We can’t share the pizza and beer with you, but you can hear a synopsis of George’s talk below. You can also check out some pictures of the event at OpenStack’s Flickr page.

We look forward to seeing familiar faces and new faces at the next OpenStack NY user group Meetup. Stay tuned for details!

OpenStack New York Meetup is Next Wednesday

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Happy New Year!

We’d like to remind you that the first OpenStack Meetup event in New York City is coming up next Wednesday. It will be held on January 12th, 2011 @Dogpatch Labs (36 East 12th Street).

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community.

Our guest speaker will be George Vanecek, PhD is a principal architect at Huawei’s US Innovation Center R&D. Huawei is a world-leading telecom solutions provider, innovating to provide robust, scalable IaaS and PaaS services to their customers. When looking around the market Dr. Vanecek and his team considered building everything from scratch and adopting commercial technologies. Their decision ended up being to adopt OpenStack. In this open discussion Dr. Vanecek will share what led he and his team to decide on OpenStack and some of the concerns both technical and business he wrestled with.

Also, Michael Mayo, cloud developer evangelist of Rackspace Hosting and Rackspace Cloud will be joining us from the West Coast. To RSVP, please go to: http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup/calendar/15634525/. And don’t forget to forward this event to anyone that might be interested.