Komei Shimamura, Timothy Okwii, Johnu George, and Marc Solanas Tarre presented Surge, a service for deploying and managing real-time data processing pipelines on OpenStack. Surge supports Apache Kafka for distributed messaging and Apache Storm for real-time data processing. It allows 1-click deployment and scaling of pipelines and manages the processes through a web UI, making complex systems easier for users. The goal is to simplify running machine learning and analytics jobs on streaming data hosted on OpenStack.