BALUG Tu 2011-04-19: GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2011-04-19 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy Also, Linux CDs and other giveaway items.
2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
"Slides" from 2011-03-15 BALUG meetnig: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android
Other Linux & Open Source happenings
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-04-19
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-04-19 meeting, we're proud to present:
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster[2] on GlusterFS[1] - Petascale Cloud Filesystem
Title: - GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem
Abstract: As the explosion of unstructured data continues unabated, filesystems are under tremendous architectural strain. Traditional and hybrid filesystem architectures fail to meet the demanding challenges of both public and private clouds and users in these environments struggle with filesystem limitations. The GlusterFS petascale filesystem architecture is designed to easily handle massive amounts of unstructured data and linearly scale performance and capacity in order to efficiently manage unplanned spikes in performance and provide high availability as a standard function of the filesystem. GlusterFS is an Open Source filesystem.
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO As CTO and Co-founder, AB sets the vision and strategy for the Gluster product platform. Prior to Gluster, AB served as CTO at California Digital Corporation[3] (CDC), where his work led to the scaling of the commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. He drove the adoption of cluster computing and GNU/Linux at enterprise data centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. In 2004, AB led the development of the world's second fastest Supercomputer "Thunder", for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[4]. AB also serves on the board of "Free Software Foundation - India[5]". He is the author / contributor of various other Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP Daemon), bios-config (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC interpose for GNU Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk (Scheme extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo (Scheme extensible messenger for YahooIM). He holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
1. http://www.gluster.com/products/glusterfs/ 2. http://www.gluster.com/ 3. http://www.californiadigital.com/ 4. http://www.llnl.gov/ 5. http://www.gnu.org.in/
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (CDs, etc.)
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such. We've also tweaked our "door prize" / giveaway practices a bit - so RSVPing and arriving sufficiently on time increases one's odds of winning door prize(s) and/or getting first or earlier pick of giveaway items.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 2011-04-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have "door prizes".
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For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private or hybrid deployments. o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT (C3) API and the vCloud API o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage resources by user, location and deployment. o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and managing services to be consumed within your cloud. o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance. o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance, security and comprehensive metering customer usage. o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user, enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues while giving the client more control and agility over the service by providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
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"Slides" from the BALUG 2011-03-15 meeting: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2011-March/004733.html
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Other Linux & Open Source happenings
Too many to list here :-) - but one might also want to: peek at BALUG's "talk" list/archives, if one's not subscribed: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org check other lists of events/sites, and their respective sites/lists: http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso@group.c...
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Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
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