During the first week of November, the OpenStack Summit is coming to Australia for the first time. With sessions focussing on the needs of everyone from the OpenStack newbie through to seasoned professionals with years of experience, the Summit is a biannual event that takes place in different cities around the world. I spoke with Mark Collier, the of the COO OpenStack Foundation, to find out what we can expect from the Sydney event.
The OpenStack Summit is a global event that is held in a different city twice a year. In November, it comes to Sydney. The full agenda was announced today and early bird registrations are available for a couple more weeks.
At the opening of OpenStack Day in Melbourne, hosted by Aptira, Jonathan Bryce said we are at an important tipping point with cloud technologies. And while his comments were informed by the results of the foundation's recent user survey, I think he's right.
The OpenStack Foundation User Survey has been released with the 44% more deployments of the open source IaaS platform and 22% more companies than a year ago. The ninth User Survey found almost a third of the users have 10,000 employees or more, while 25 percent of organisations have fewer than 100 employees. The majority of deployments are outside of the United States.
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