Apache CloudStack is an open source private cloud server. In other words, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service). In this talk we’ll take a look at CloudStack system architecture and how to configure and deploy your own private cloud with CloudStack. We’ll also look at some CloudStack Java code and see how it uses Java APIs to control the XenServer hypervisor.

Speaker: Daniel Kranowski is Lead Software Engineer and Principal at Business Algorithms, LLC (www.bizalgo.com). He has spent over a decade coding in Java, .NET, C++ and related technologies. Amidst his regular schedule of Java enterprise application development, he feeds his addiction to "making big systems go fast" by hacking on CloudStack.

The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software.

The Oregon Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS) today announced the date of their latest Tech Talk entitled “Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud Computing in Healthcare”

Presenters will include John McDaniel, National Practice Leader with NetApp’s Healthcare Provider Segment, and Sonney Sapra, CIO for Tuality Healthcare.

“Big data is a big thing in healthcare today, and the next critical success factor we need to be prepared for is analytics” stated Brian Ahier, Health IT Evangelist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. “Now that we have digitized much of our health data and begun exchanging and aggregating it, we need the business intelligence tools and analytics capabilities to make good use of this massive data set. This event will combine solutions with real world implementation, looking at the challenges and successes in moving towards the next frontier in health information technology."

The Cloud’s business model allows your organization to leverage existing infrastructure and platform investments for greater convenience, but developing a secure Cloud strategy involves numerous considerations and planning. Join us for this free webinar on October 29th, 2014 at 11am PT where we we will explore Microsoft Azure and Cloud Security.

Getting up to speed in OpenStack can be challenging. Whether you're just getting involved or trying to find the deepest details on a given project, where to start is not obvious. Vern Hart (Director of Delivery at Solinea) will cover the landscape of training options available, as well providing a roundup of the best sources of OpenStack information out there. He'll also give some guidance on interacting with the community and how best to leverage the knowledge of the thousands of brilliant developers available via mailing list or IRC.

Vern Hart is the Director of Delivery at Solinea. He is a proven consultant specializing in open infrastructure and helping customers adopting new infrastructure architectures and solutions. Vern has over 20 years of systems administration experience. Prior to Solinea, He was CTO at three separate companies including his own which eventually merged with their largest competitor. Most recently Vern was Director of Support Operations and Training at Morphlabs where he was instrumental in the migration of Morphlabs onto OpenStack from Eucalyptus. He has proven success in both systems development and engineering roles.

Dinner & drinks provided.

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