Head in the Clouds

Interested in building elastic, scalable and profitable open source clouds? Join Citrix for free day of learning, best practices and industry insights at the Build a Cloud Workshop in San Francisco, CA on May 10, 2012.  This free one-day workshop is held alongside with Citrix Synergy 2012 and includes a pass to the Synergy Keynote and Solutions Expo. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the cloud building as well as the challenges and successes of delivering cloud services.

• Learn how to build an open source cloud with solutions from Citrix CloudStack, Canonical, RightScale, Zenoss and Xen.org.
• Network with peers, industry experts and solution providers at the CloudStack Community Reception

The Build a Cloud Workshop is held at the Westin Market Street (Metropolitan Ballroom 1 and 2, 2nd Floor) located at 50 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103. Click here to learn more and register.

Build a Cloud Workshop Agenda

8:30 – 1:00 Optional            Free admission to the Synergy Keynote,Synergy Solutions Expo and lunch

1:00 – 2:00                           Introduction to Cloud Computing Mark Hinkle, Sr. Director Cloud Community

2:00 – 3:00                           Virtualization in the Cloud Lars Kurth, Xen.org Community Manager

On February 28th and 29th we'll be holding a two day session focusing on the open source technologies you can use to build, manage and deploy an open source cloud compute environment as well as DevOps presentation on operational methodologies for managing "cloudy" infrastructure.  The program will feature speakers from CloudStack, Citrix, Xen.org, Red Hat, Gluster, PuppetLabs, Opscode, Zenoss and enStratus. 

Even if you can't attend all the sessions feel free to sign-up and we'll make our best effort to get you links to recordings and slide decks after the event.

Day 1 Agenda

Day 1 of Build an Open Source Cloud Day will focus on the infrastructure that compromises an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing environment. The speakers will outline options for virtualization, storage and orchestration that provide the foundation for an open source cloud compute environment.