OpenStorage Summit + SDC
This is a little belated, but I wanted to go over some of the cool things that happened at the conference and thank all of those folks that attended the OpenStorage Summit. The summit was a tremendous success. We had a whole variety of speakers (the presentations are available from the wiki). There's too much to cover here. Next time I hope we will get even more community speakers to participate. The caricature artist at the dinner was a lot of fun too. I'll upload mine pretty soon.
SDC was also pretty interesting, I spent almost every moment of each day listening to presentations about various technologies. The highlights for me were:
- Andy Bechtolsheim's keynote speech on Flash and storage
- Meeting a variety of OpenSolaris luminaries (Darren Moffat, Alan Wright, etc)
- Meeting a variety of Linux luminaries (James Bottomley, Steven French, Andrew Tridgell, Jeremy Allison, etc)
- Having a long conversation with Martin Petersen about BTRFS
- (and learning BTRFS is pronounced "Butter FS")
There were lots of other things that went on too. I'll try to take some time and dive down deeper into some of these topics over the coming weeks.
