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[Andrew Weiss <weissa@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I would also like to reiterate that I will only have until the first week in
May to conduct this research. This is a semester-long initiative, and as a
result of this constraint, I would like to avoid becoming overwhelmed with
too many research areas. I will be spending the next couple of weeks
deploying an OpenStack environment from which to gather data as well as
providing the community with a more detailed proposal. My hope is to provide
the OpenStack community with some additional information about their
platform, whether or not it results in a complete "beginning to end"
solution.

Thanks,


Andrew Weiss
weissa@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:weissa@xxxxxxxxxx>
LinkedIn | http://www.linkedin.com/in/weissa
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From:  hitesh wadekar <hitesh.wadekar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:10:33 +0530
To:  Andrew Weiss <weissa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc:  OpenStack Academic Initiative <openstack-academia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx>
Subject:  Re: [Openstack-academia] New Research Initiative

Thanks everyone for update.
 
Andrew,
 
I am Hitesh Wadekar, I am prospective student for MS computer sciecne (Fall
2012). It will be glad for us if you could specify or elaborate more what
exactly you want to do, as cloud is vast, We need to choose specific domain
for study, for example, I have choosen OpenStack + Xen Cloud Platform.
 
I undestand that your focus towords IT engineering. but, I would suggest we
should first study OpenStack nut and bolts. then we can come across good
solution for IT engineering for OpenSatck ( for instance, deployment,
performance study, virtualization layer automation through cloud
orchastration etc...)
 
OpenSatck is good platform to study public vs private. I guess now all
industry is planning to opt OpenStack. SOA (Software Oriented Architecture)
will play major part in the future. and for this Nova-API and XAPI (Xen
API), LibVirt  are very important.
 
I completly agree with Todd. We need to provide first proposal to draw an
overview to study.
 
Thanks Andrew and Todd.
 
Let me know Andrew if you need more information, we can chat over gmail.
 
Hitesh Wadekar,
+91 9762046036
 
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Todd Deshane <todd.deshane@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Andrew Weiss <weissa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hey everyone,
>> >
>> > I wanted to introduce myself to this group. My name is Andrew Weiss and
>> > I am a senior undergraduate student in the Computer & Information
>> > Technology Department at Purdue University.  Throughout the course of
>> > this semester, I will be conducting research in cloud computing with
>> > focus areas that include: security, scalability, and business process
>> > enhancement. I recently contacted Stefano about using OpenStack as the
>> > primary tool for our cloud computing research and he mentioned this
>> > academic group.
>> >
>> > My goal with this project is to explore the advantages and disadvantages
>> > of deploying an open source private cloud in an enterprise environment.
>> > The degree I am pursuing is geared towards IT engineering in regards to
>> > the maintenance, support, and implementation of enterprise technologies.
>> > If anyone has any areas in particular that relate to this project that
>> > they would like me to also look into, I would certainly be interested.
> 
> I think you should also try to take into account privacy, cloud
> economics, and be more explicit about your comparison to public cloud.
> Are you thinking about private vs. public? Or is it more of a old
> school IT vs. cloud-style, more devops-minded IT?
> 
> I would like to see you go into more depth with your proposal to try
> to draw out a possible mentor in the OpenStack community. The more
> detail that you go into, the more advice we can give you.
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd
> 
>> > Please contact me with more information and whether or not you are
>> > interested in following along with our project's progress.
>> >
> 
> Maybe you could have a wiki page or have report(s) on the blog.
> 
> Thanks,
> Todd
> 
> --
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> http://blog.xen.org/
> http://wiki.xen.org/
> 
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