This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Mårten Mickos, Head of Cloud Business at HP, formerly CEO of Eucalyptus and of MySQL AB. Some highlights of our discussion: HP has made loud public commitments to OpenStack. What does HP’s acquisition of Euca…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical. Some highlights of our discussion: The role Ubuntu and Canonical will play in OpenStack’s future. OpenStack is the next phase of Linux: Linux at large scale. The majority of Op…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Benny Schnaider, Chairman and co-Founder of Ravello Systems. Some highlights from the episode: The history of virtualization in two minutes, and why it is still important today. Virtualization provides separa…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Dagan Gilat, Senior Manager of Cloud Platforms at IBM Haifa Research Lab. Highlights from the podcast: The major areas of focus of the IBM Haifa Research Center. How cloud computing workloads have changed ove…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Nelson Nahum, CEO and founder of Zadara Storage. We talk about: What does Zadara Storage do and how do you use OpenStack? How easy or difficult have you found it to keep up with the changing APIs across relea…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Yaron Haviv, VP of Datacenter and Storage Solutions at Mellanox. We talk about: Why is OpenStack interesting for Mellanox today? What lessons are being learned by Mellanox’s customers using OpenStack? What ar…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Ken Pepple, CTO of Solinea and author of Deploying OpenStack. We talk about: What does Solinea do? How does OpenStack compare to other infrastructure cloud software on the market, such as CloudStack, vCloud, …

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Florian Haas of Hastexo. We talk about: OpenStack Icehouse and breaking out of IaaS Trove Data Storage API Typical challenges to building highly available OpenStack services. Shlomo Swidler’s OpenStackIL Podc…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I speak with Nati Shalom, CTO of Gigaspaces. We talk about: General update on the upcoming OpenStack Icehouse release Recent Gigaspaces Cloudify 2.7 updates Upcoming Cloudify 3.0 additions Call for Papers for the upcoming…

This podcast series explores topics of interest to OpenStack practitioners, focusing on the ecosystem in Israel. In this episode I welcome back Samuel Bercovici of Radware, and we talk about how to contribute to OpenStack. Shlomo Swidler’s OpenStackIL Podcast Episode 6: Welcoming Back Samuel Bercovici of Radware Subscribe to this podcast series The…