openstack

At Rishidot Research, we strongly believe in having transparent and open discussions on topics related to our research areas. As a part of this move, we are planning to run a series of Google+ Hangout discussions on some of the topics of interest. We believe that every analyst firm should have open conversation with the community as a way to strengthen the industry.

The first conversation in this series is on OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform. OpenStack held a design summit and conference last week and there was lots of enthusiasm among the partners and practitioners. We want to bring interested people in the community together to discuss where the project is heading in the coming years. We welcome you to join us on Google+ Hangout which will also be livestreamed on Rishidot Research Youtube Channel.

When: April 26th 2012 (Thursday) at 2:15 PM PST

Where: To join the discussion, visit my Google+ page at the time or add me to your Google+ circles. It will also be livestreamed on our Youtube Channel.

The following have confirmed their participation in the event.

• Dave Cahill, Director of Strategic Alliances at SolidFire
• Narendar Shankar, Senior Director of Product Management at Nexenta
• Boris Renski Jr., Co-founder & CMO at Mirantis
• Alex Williams, SiliconAngle
• Matt Weinberger, SiliconAngle
• Ben Kepes, Diversity Limited
• Niki Acosta, Evangelist, Rackspace CloudBuilders
• Florian Otel, HP

We are hoping to see you on Thursday and let us take the OpenStack conversation forward.