News: Australia Ramps Up for Cloud Technology Wave With OpenStack Events
Announcement posted by Aptira 24 May 2017
~ Global Technologists descend on Sydney for major international technology events focused on fast growing cloud computing software project ~
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, May 24 2017 - The Australian OpenStack Community continues its ramp-up to the first OpenStack Summit planned for Australia, with a series of OpenStack cloud computing events, including the next OpenStack Australia Day, which will take place June 1st in Melbourne. Key trends include how OpenStack enables faster innovation, how smart organisations are taking a multi-cloud strategy, and how new consumption models such as remotely managed private cloud mean more organisations of all sizes can benefit from cloud computing.
The first OpenStack Day in Australia, held in Sydney in May 2016, revealed strong growth in the local market and significant opportunities for vendors and service providers specialising in OpenStack technology and services. This growth continued, with senior technologists calling 2017 the year OpenStack becomes mainstream in the Government during the second OpenStack Australia Day, held in Canberra last November.
Maintaining this momentum, local community leaders are set to host a third OpenStack Australia Day in Melbourne, June 1st. The event will delegates a taste of what to expect at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, a global gathering of thousands of cloud computing executives and technologists happening November 6-8, 2017. The latest OpenStack User Survey recorded a 44% increase in deployments year over year, and the Summit brings together users to share their business case studies and operational best practices.
“Aptira first became involved in OpenStack almost six years ago and it is immensely satisfying to see something that we have invested so much time in, develop and grow to the point where it has become such an important fulcrum for change,’ said Tristan Goode, Aptira CEO, who is organising the community event in Melbourne.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne has already attracted a range of speakers from Australia and worldwide. The event has received strong support from the education sector, with a stream of sessions already scheduled from the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (NeCTAR), highlighting the importance of OpenStack and open source software within the Education, Research and Innovation sectors.
“In Australia, we’ve seen the Finance, University/Government and Telecommunications industries become first movers with OpenStack, because they were technically savvy and could quickly benefit from the cost savings and speed associated with cloud computing,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. “Now that the technology and OpenStack ecosystem has matured, we are seeing more mid-sized enterprises experience the same benefits with OpenStack. We look forward to sharing these case studies alongside the stories of global brands like Adobe Advertising Cloud, CERN, China UnionPay, Deutsche Telekom, Gap, GE, JFE Steel, Volkswagen and more at the OpenStack Day Melbourne and OpenStack Summit Sydney.”
Immediately prior to the Sydney Summit in November, the OpenStack community will host its first Application Hackathon, where participants will learn how to develop distributed applications using platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift and Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. Winners from the Australian Application Hackathon will be awarded at Summit.
“Thousands of people from around the world will gather in Sydney for the first OpenStack Summit held in the southern hemisphere. I’m very excited about this and I strongly encourage you all to mark that week in your calendar, It’s going to be tremendous in so many ways,” added Goode.
About Aptira
Aptira is the leading provider of OpenStack in the Asia-Pacific, providing cloud solutions and technology consultancy to meet the most demanding technology specifications for a wide range of organisations in telecommunications, media, finance, retail, utilities and government. With offices across the APAC region, Aptira is a growing global business as its reputation for high quality services expands.
As the founder and prime motivator of the OpenStack community in Australia and India, the company is committed to the idea that what it is doing for its customers today will be mainstream tomorrow.
For more information, please visit aptira.com or follow Aptira on Twitter: @Aptira
About OpenStack
OpenStack is the most widely deployed software for public and private clouds, with more than 5 million cores in production. It has become a standard for private clouds and is also available via dozens of public cloud providers globally. At its core, OpenStack is an open source integration engine that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual machine and container resources on a single network. The same OpenStack code powers a global network of public and private clouds backed by the largest ecosystem of technology providers, to enable cost savings, control and portability.
OpenStack is a global community of more than 73,000 individuals across 185 countries supported by the OpenStack Foundation, which facilitates the development of many innovative projects in the open infrastructure space. The community delivers two software releases each year, which are Apache 2 licensed and productised by a large ecosystem of technology vendors in our Marketplace. For more information and to join the community, visit www.OpenStack.org.
For more information on OpenStack, please visit openstack.org or follow OpenStack on Twitter: @OpenStack
To stay up to date with the latest OpenStack news and events in Australia, please visit australiaday.openstack.org.au or follow OpenStackAU on Twitter: @OpenStackAU
For more information, please contact
Jo Balfour
Progressiva
+61 405 542 018
jo@progressiva.com.au
The first OpenStack Day in Australia, held in Sydney in May 2016, revealed strong growth in the local market and significant opportunities for vendors and service providers specialising in OpenStack technology and services. This growth continued, with senior technologists calling 2017 the year OpenStack becomes mainstream in the Government during the second OpenStack Australia Day, held in Canberra last November.
Maintaining this momentum, local community leaders are set to host a third OpenStack Australia Day in Melbourne, June 1st. The event will delegates a taste of what to expect at the OpenStack Summit Sydney, a global gathering of thousands of cloud computing executives and technologists happening November 6-8, 2017. The latest OpenStack User Survey recorded a 44% increase in deployments year over year, and the Summit brings together users to share their business case studies and operational best practices.
“Aptira first became involved in OpenStack almost six years ago and it is immensely satisfying to see something that we have invested so much time in, develop and grow to the point where it has become such an important fulcrum for change,’ said Tristan Goode, Aptira CEO, who is organising the community event in Melbourne.
OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne has already attracted a range of speakers from Australia and worldwide. The event has received strong support from the education sector, with a stream of sessions already scheduled from the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (NeCTAR), highlighting the importance of OpenStack and open source software within the Education, Research and Innovation sectors.
“In Australia, we’ve seen the Finance, University/Government and Telecommunications industries become first movers with OpenStack, because they were technically savvy and could quickly benefit from the cost savings and speed associated with cloud computing,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. “Now that the technology and OpenStack ecosystem has matured, we are seeing more mid-sized enterprises experience the same benefits with OpenStack. We look forward to sharing these case studies alongside the stories of global brands like Adobe Advertising Cloud, CERN, China UnionPay, Deutsche Telekom, Gap, GE, JFE Steel, Volkswagen and more at the OpenStack Day Melbourne and OpenStack Summit Sydney.”
Immediately prior to the Sydney Summit in November, the OpenStack community will host its first Application Hackathon, where participants will learn how to develop distributed applications using platforms such as Cloud Foundry, OpenShift and Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. Winners from the Australian Application Hackathon will be awarded at Summit.
“Thousands of people from around the world will gather in Sydney for the first OpenStack Summit held in the southern hemisphere. I’m very excited about this and I strongly encourage you all to mark that week in your calendar, It’s going to be tremendous in so many ways,” added Goode.
About Aptira
Aptira is the leading provider of OpenStack in the Asia-Pacific, providing cloud solutions and technology consultancy to meet the most demanding technology specifications for a wide range of organisations in telecommunications, media, finance, retail, utilities and government. With offices across the APAC region, Aptira is a growing global business as its reputation for high quality services expands.
As the founder and prime motivator of the OpenStack community in Australia and India, the company is committed to the idea that what it is doing for its customers today will be mainstream tomorrow.
For more information, please visit aptira.com or follow Aptira on Twitter: @Aptira
About OpenStack
OpenStack is the most widely deployed software for public and private clouds, with more than 5 million cores in production. It has become a standard for private clouds and is also available via dozens of public cloud providers globally. At its core, OpenStack is an open source integration engine that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual machine and container resources on a single network. The same OpenStack code powers a global network of public and private clouds backed by the largest ecosystem of technology providers, to enable cost savings, control and portability.
OpenStack is a global community of more than 73,000 individuals across 185 countries supported by the OpenStack Foundation, which facilitates the development of many innovative projects in the open infrastructure space. The community delivers two software releases each year, which are Apache 2 licensed and productised by a large ecosystem of technology vendors in our Marketplace. For more information and to join the community, visit www.OpenStack.org.
For more information on OpenStack, please visit openstack.org or follow OpenStack on Twitter: @OpenStack
To stay up to date with the latest OpenStack news and events in Australia, please visit australiaday.openstack.org.au or follow OpenStackAU on Twitter: @OpenStackAU
For more information, please contact
Jo Balfour
Progressiva
+61 405 542 018
jo@progressiva.com.au