Citrix OpenStack team is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer in Cambridge, UK

Would you like to work with the Citrix OpenStack team? Now is your chance:
http://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_citrix/emea_region/jobDetails.do?functionName=getJobDetail&jobPostId=38269&localeCode=en-us

OpenStack Folsom Design Summit & Spring Conference in San Francisco

April 13 2012

Next week Ewan Mellor, John Garbutt and Renuka Apte will be at the OpenStack Summit and OpenStack Conference.

We will be hosting a session on XenAPI development:
http://folsomdesignsummit2012.sched.org/event/87b0f07db6f2d00e3696243205d8233c

Hopefully see you there!

OpenStack Essex has released!

April 13 2012

OpenStack Essex has been released. Read about what Citrix has done during Essex:
http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/04/13/openstack-essex-and-folsom-design-summit/

South Bay OpenStack Meetup

January 12 2012

http://www.meetup.com/openstack/events/41485502/

This week in one main room we will run a session on 'Learning OpenStack through the Art of Debugging':

• Identify the various components of openstack, and show each as a service that runs in devstack.
• Enable/disable logging for major services.
• Take image upload as a sample operation. Trace how the image upload should proceed through various devstack components. Then, upload an image and follow the logs to confirm that that is the case. Then, step into code and trace the image upload process.

Pre-requisites for all attendees: Bring your laptops, with ubuntu 11.10 and devstack installed on it. Follow directions on devstack.org to install devstack.

In the other main room we will be doing a 'What is OpenStack?' whiteboard lecture for beginners.

There will also be space for people who want to work together on new features, whatever they might be.

OpenStack hackathon, South Bay style. We'll have OpenStack core team members on hand for designing, coding, or advice, and if any beginners turn up then we'll run a presentation session explaining what OpenStack is and how it all fits together.

Beer, food, whiteboards and wifi provided by Citrix. Bring a laptop if you want to code or to try an all-in-one install to take away with you.

These will run on alternate weeks from the San Francisco meetups. All the cool kids go to both.

902 Light Rail schedule: http://www.vta.org/schedules/SC_902.html

Citrix Summit and Synergy Barcelona 2011

October 24-28 2011

We discussed our upcoming OpenStack-based products at Citrix Summit and Synergy in Barcelona:

Breakout:
SYN205: Introduction to cloud computing architectures
Wednesday October 26, 3:30pm, Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona 117
Slides: Introduction to cloud computing architectures.pptx
Video: http://citrix.com/tv/#videos/4788

It was also in the Secret Demo Room, all week.

OpenStack Project Policy Board elections

August 28 2011 – Ewan Mellor

It's election time in OpenStackLand! You could, of course, do no better than to vote for me

• My manifesto
• Details on the process

Citrix acquires cloud.com

July 12 2011

Today Citrix announced the acquisition of cloud.com, a leading vendor in the cloud infrastructure space. One area that isn't given a lot of coverage in the official marketing materials is how this fits with our commitments to OpenStack and Project Olympus. The short answer is: we're doubling down on our OpenStack bets. The acquisition will enable us to deliver more into the OpenStack community and Project Olympus at a faster rate, and we get an infusion of top rated cloud IQ that would have taken us years to grow organically. For longer answers former XenSource and Citrix CTO Simon Crosby's blog post sums it up best.

Welcome to the cloud.com team!

OpenStack EMEA Day

July 10 2011

To read more about this exciting event, go to OpenStack EMEA Day .

OpenStack networking update

June 25 2011

Salvatore has written a couple of articles on the current state of the various OpenStack networking services:

• Quantum: a new building block for virtual networks in OpenStack clouds
• Building networks in the cloud with NetStack

Project Olympus: Hello World!

May 25 2011

If you've ever worked on a project that you couldn't tell people about you know how exciting it is to finally be able to speak publicly about all the cool stuff you're doing. For Project Olympus that means Synergy 2011 is finally here.

If you haven't already check out the "real" marketing site, and then check back here regularly or sign up for the RSS feed for the scoop from the engineering team.

To start here are a couple things to chew on:

CitrixTV Videos - Project Olympus in action!

10 Minutes to Cloud The basics of what we're building and how it works


Load Balancing as a Service An example of how we're meeting the dual goals of contributing to the OpenStack community and integrating Citrix products

Synergy 2011

If you're at Synergy in San Francisco this week we have breakout and Ask the Experts sessions:

Breakout:
SYN215: OpenStack for the Enterprise
Thursday May 26, 2:00pm, Moscone West 2016-2018

Ask the Experts:
Wednesday May 25, 26, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Thursday May 26, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Expo hall

Or just look for us - we'll have some kind of OpenStack logo on.

And we've got some good stuff to give away!

Early Access Program

We've been working with a small set of our closest partners since we started Project Olympus, and much of what's already in the project is a result of feedback from those relationships. It's now it's time to expand. And what better way than leveraging the respective strengths of OpenStack co-founders RackSpace and Dell to do it. We invest in these relationships very seriously so if you are interested in proof of concept or pilot deployments of Project Olympus, and more importantly helping up shape our solution, we want to hear from you.

More information

You can contact us via

Web: http://community.citrix.com/openstack (here)
Email: openstack@citrix.com
Twitter: #citrixolympus

Development focus for Cactus

• xs-inject-networking and xenapi-basic-network-injection: Network address injection. Merged!
• xenapi-vlan-network-manager: VLAN networking for XenAPI. Merged!
• hypervisor-vmware-vsphere-support: VMware vSphere support. Merged!

Development focus for Diablo

• network-service: Networking as a Service.
• xenapi-sm-support: XenAPI storage manager support.
• xenapi-text-console-support: XenAPI text console support.

OpenStack Conference and Design Summit

The Diablo OpenStack Conference and Design Summit was at the end of April, right across the street from the Citrix office in Santa Clara. The conference was a two day, four track event, for both business and technical community members; the design summit was where all the technical work for Diablo was done.

The slides from both the conference and the summit are all here: http://www.slideshare.net/event/openstack-conference-and-design-summit-apr-2011/slideshows