The OpenStack Summit will take place on October 27-30 in Tokyo, will be a five-day conference for OpenStack contributors, enterprise users, service providers, application developers and ecosystem members.  Attendees can expect visionary keynote speakers, 200+ breakout sessions, hands-on workshops, collaborative design sessions and lots of networking. In keeping with the Open-Source spirit, you are in the front seat to cast your vote for the sessions that are important to you!

Today we will take a peak at some recommended storage related session proposals for the Tokyo summit, be sure to vote for your favorites! To vote, click on the session title below and you will be directed to the voting page. If you are a member of the OpenStack Foundation, just login. If you are not, you are welcome to join now – it is simple and free.

Please make sure to vote before the deadline on Thursday, July 30 2015, at 11:59pm PDT.

Block Storage

OpenStack Storage State of the Union
  • Sean Cohen, Principal Product Manager @ Red Hat
  • Flavio Percoco, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Jon Bernard ,Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Ceph and OpenStack: current integration and roadmap
  • Josh Durgin, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Sébastien Han, Senior Cloud Architect @ Red Hat
State of Multi-Site Storage in OpenStack
  • Sean Cohen, Principal Product Manager @ Red Hat
  • Neil Levine, Director of Product Management @ Red Hat
  • Sébastien Han, Senior Cloud Architect @ Red Hat
Block Storage Replication with Cinder
  • John Griffith, Principal Software Engineer @ SolidFire
  • Ed Balduf, Cloud Architect @ SolidFire
Sleep Easy with Automated Cinder Volume Backup
  • Lin Yang, Senior Software Engineer @ Intel
  • Lisa Li Software, Engineer @ Intel
  • Yuting Wu, Engineer @ Awcloud
Flash Storage and Faster Networking Accelerate Ceph Performance
  • John Kim, Director of Storage Marketing @ Mellanox Technologies
  • Ross Turk, Director of Product Marketing @ Red Hat Storage

File Storage

Manila - An Update from Liberty
  • Sean Cohen, Principal Product Manager @ Red Hat
  • Akshai Parthasarathy Technical Marketing Engineer @ NetApp
  • Thomas Bechtold, OpenStack Cloud Engineer @ SUSE
Manila and Sahara: Crossing the Desert to the Big Data Oasis
  • Ethan Gafford, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Jeff Applewhite, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp
  • Weiting Chen, Software Engineer @ Intel
GlusterFS making things awesome for Swift, Sahara, and Manila.
  • Luis Pabón, Principal Software Engineer @Red Hat
  • Thiago da Silva, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Trevor McKay, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat

Object Storage

Benchmarking OpenStack Swift
  • Thiago da Silva, Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat
  • Christian Schwede, Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Truly durable backups with OpenStack Swift
  • Christian Schwede, Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Encrypting Data at Rest: Let's Explore the Missing Piece of the Puzzle
  • Dave McCowan, Technical Leader, OpenStack @ Cisco
  • Arvind Tiwari, Technical Leader @ Cisco