The OpenStack Summit is organized to allow telecommunications companies, cloud managers, app developers, open-stack contributors, and IT industry leaders, who will construct the future of cloud computing, to share business cases and operational experiences, learn about new products in ecosystems, and participated in the actual workshop. Starting with keynote on May 8th, there will be a variety of programs such as 4-day conference with various themes, a forum for developers and operators, a marketplace where new products of the ecosystem are presented, and events for networking among participants.
At the OpenStack Summit, the OpenStack Foundation presented 'next generation private cloud environment' which can accommodate all sizes, and '3C' keywords including cost, capacity, and compliance, with the future direction of OpenStack. The summit also emphasized the connection with the overall cloud ecosystem, not only with the OpenStack, but also with 'Open-source Days' with various open-source projects with OpenStack. Meanwhile, the Summit's Super User Award was the first joint award to UKCloud and Paddy Power Betfair.
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▲ The Open Stack Summit in the first half of this year was held at Heinz Convention Center in Boston.
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▲ From this year, keynote session focuses on overall cases of the ecosystem rather than the presentation of new versions.
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▲ This year's Super User Award was the first 'joint award'.
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▲ In this year's event, a lot of companies throughout the cloud ecosystem participated.
The OpenStack Foundation hosted OpenStack Summit Boston at Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, for 4 days from May 8 to 11, 2017. The OpenStack Summit, held twice a year, provides opportunities to plan cloud strategies and share knowledge about OpenStack cloud architecture and operations with thousands of experts and stakeholders from more than 60 countries attending. Especially from this summit, since it became separated from the announcement date of the latest version of OpenStack, it is changed to be more focusing on "use cases" aspect.
At the OpenStack Summit, the OpenStack Foundation presented 'next generation private cloud environment' which can accommodate all sizes, and '3C' keywords including cost, capacity and compliance, with the future direction of OpenStack. Today, OpenStack is the most widely deployed open-source software for cloud construction, and it has already been introduced and used in a wide range of industries, various enterprises and organizations in commercial operating environments. Over 1,500 companies and 38,000 people in 178 countries are sponsoring the OpenStack project.
Through this summit, OpenStack Foundation introduced 'Private Cloud as a service' as a new private cloud model with '2nd generation private cloud', and announced an addition in the new category of 'Remotely managed private cloud' at the marketplace of OpenStack. Besides, the Summit's Super User Award was the first joint award to UKCloud, in the UK, and Paddy Power Betfair, the online betting site.
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▲ Starting with the keynote speech, session programs with a variety of themes were held.
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▲ The marketplace event where various products and technologies are presented was progressed with the session.
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▲ The marketplace event was also surrounded by the participants.
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▲ There was a special stage for broadcasting at the site.
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▲ There were organizational lounges throughout the event site for relaxation and networking.
Starting with the keynotes progressed on the morning of Monday and Tuesday, the OpenStack Summit Boston held various programs from a 4-day conference with various themes, a forum for developers and operators, a marketplace where new products of the ecosystem are presented, and events for networking among participants. Moreover, 'Open-source Days' with a variety of open-source projects with OpenStack and Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) qualifying examination are also scheduled during this summit.
Various tracks were prepared for the conference of the summit according to the four types of participants; architecture and operation, business and strategy, app developers, and upstream developers. In particular, it was possible to check various strategies and cases through not only technological themes such as operation, management, and development, but also sessions related to business and strategy for managers. Meanwhile, at the session for developers, the participants could get a lot of information on development contributions, along with topics such as cloud app development, big data, and containers.
At 'Open-source Days', a variety of projects that are closely related to open-source projects are invited. The projects that have been invited include Ceph, Kubernetes, OPNFV, OVS (Open vSwitch), Ansible, Cloud Foundry, OpenSwitch, OpenContrail, FD.io, OpenDayLight, and Cloudify. These projects will present the use cases and roadmap of each project through the Open-source Days of this OpenStack Summit.
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