Please join the upcoming OpenStack Chat 24th May 2012, 4.00 – 5.00 pm CET (9.00 - 10.00 am CST). In brief: What is Open Stack and Dell Crowbar?

Open Stack
Open Stack is a global community of developers working to create an alternative open source solution to Amazon EC2 and S3. Dell has been an active member of the community since its founding and currently distributes and supports OpenStack deployments. Dell has also developed Dell Crowbar, an open source installation tool built on Chef to install OpenStack quickly and automatically.  

Dell Crowbar
With Crowbar, you can install cloud software across clusters and scale out systems quickly and automatically. Crowbar also provides capabilities for network monitoring and discovery, and gathering performance data, among other advantages. With Crowbar, you have a configurable, adjustable framework complete with many built-in features that can save time, streamline effort and potentially lower costs.

Guest Speakers
Rob Hirschfeld, Technical Lead OpenStack & Lead Architect Crowbar at Dell
Scott Purcel, Technical Trainer & MESA SME at Dell
Jim Plamondon, Director Developer Experience at Rackspace (see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Plamondon)
Andrew Shafer, Co-Founder Puppet at Rackspace
Duncan McGreggor, Cloud Engineering Manager at DreamHost

Dell & Rackspace engineers talk with customers
We want bring together engineers who design and build OpenStack and Crowbar with customers seeking first hand technical information. In order to attend the chat, go to delltechcenter.adobeconnect.com/chat (important note: do not type www  …) No registration is required. If you have any questions, please contact florian_klaffenbach@dell.com. Looking forward to see you there!

Chat Hosts
Stephen Spector, Cloud Evangelist at Dell (Twitter: @SpectorAtDell)
Florian Klaffenbach, Solution Expert – Microsoft & Cloud Computing at Dell (Twitter: @FloKlaffenbach)
Rafael Knuth, Social Media Manager at Dell (Twitter: @RafaelKnuth)