Megan A. Irvine

Big announcement today about IBM and the OpenStack Foundation. OpenStack enhances the IBM SmartCloud Foundation offerings by expanding support for different hypervisors at the IaaS Cloud layer. It uses standards such as TOSCA and Linked Data to integrate workload optimization and deployment simplification higher in the cloud management stack. You can learn more about the OpenStack Foundation at http://www.openstack.org . Today's #cloudchat (April 12) will discuss the newly announced OpenStack Foundation. Join from 4 to 5 p.m. ET on Twitter. Panelists will be: Rackspace’s VP Business & Corporate Development Mark Collier  IBM’s VP Standards Angel Diaz  Here is how the #cloudchat works: What: A tweetchat is an online conversation held at a pre-arranged time following a specific hashtag, in this case #cloudchat. You will need a Twitter ID to take part.  When: Thursday, April 12, at 4 p.m. ET, repeating the 2nd Thursday of every month at 4 p.m. ET.  Wh...

IBM Technical World for Smarter Computing  featuring Cloud, Power Systems and System z  April 16-19, 2012 San Francisco, CA http://ibm.co/HsVCha Very excited about speaking at this show next week! I will be giving these talks on cloud computing: cBU09 – Birds of a Feather: Cloud and Social Media – Tuesday 10:30 - Franciscan C cBU06 – Planning Your Cloud Education – Wednesday 1:00 - Union Square 1/2 cBU07 – An IBM Cloud Offering Decoder – Wednesday 2:30; repeat Thursday 9:00 - Union Square 1/2  I also plan on doing some live social media reporting. Look for my tweets @mirv_pgh .