When creating cloud object storage with open source software, a strong understanding of the underlying hardware infrastructure is key to creating a high-functioning, scalable solution.

We had a great time meeting our colleagues and talking to attendees about the kinds of solutions they are looking for and the solutions we need to develop.

Moving into our second day in Sydney, our coverage extended to chats with analysts, an OpenStack PTL and some industry luminaries.

With our mascot, Kangy the Kangaroo, we at Host-Telecom have been bouncing our way around the marketplace on the first day of the OpenStack Summit.

Host-Telecom is very excited to join the OpenStack community at the OpenStack Sydney Summit next week to share our IT infrastructure solutions with you and learn about the initiatives you are engaged in as well.

We run OpenStack cloud on bare metal in our data centers so users can take advantage of the flexibility, power, and stability of an open source platform.

Whether we’re people of wealth and taste is debatable, but we have been around for a long time enabling OpenStack on bare metal.

At first glance, the issue would seem to be the ransomware cost, but the more serious problem is the downtime and subsequent revenue loss.

“Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.” – Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO

With the forecast that night for strong winds and heavy rain, the worst happened when a tornado touched down at 2am local time.