The OpenStack STL January meetup on 1/20/2015 covered key updates from Q4 2014, including new releases and member additions to the OpenStack foundation. Highlights included Canonical's OpenStack distribution, HP's Helion release, and significant funding rounds for various OpenStack startups. The meetup was sponsored by Cisco.

1. OpenStack STL
January Meetup
1/20/2015
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2. Agenda
• OpenStack 2014 Q4 Updates – Ranga
• OpenStack install on RHEL – James
• Migrating to OpenStack – Zack Peters
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3. OpenStack 2014 Nov-Dec
• Canonical officially unveils its OpenStack distro.
• HP releases Helion OpenStack community edition.
• IBM has added OpenStack services to its cloud
marketplace.
• OpenStack Summit Paris (Juno release & Kilo Design)
• Symantec joins OpenStack Foundation as Gold Mem
• Mirantis releases Mirantis OpenStack 6.0
• OpenStack community elects 2015 Foundation
Board members
• Tesora makes DBaaS available on BlueBox &
Vexxhost.
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4. OpenStack Startup
Update
• EMC acquires Cloudscaling
• SwiftStack raises $16M funding.
• Mirantis raises $100M.
• OpenStack provider Bluebox raises $4M.
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5. OpenStack Meetup
• Thanks to our sponsor Cisco
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