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NYC local event July 18: Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller

From jeffj@panix.com
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Subject NYC local event July 18: Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller
Date 2019-07-14 23:23 -0400
Organization http://www.unigroup.org
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Unigroup is happening next week on Thursday evening...
Please RSVP, if you are planning to attend...

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JULY 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JULY 2019 GENERAL MEETING
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     Topic:  Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller
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   Speaker:  Candida Valois, Senior Sales Engineer,
             Scality <http://www.scality.com>

      When:  Thursday, July 18th, 2019  (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

     Where:  The Cooper Union   <http://www.cooper.edu>
             School of Engineering
             41 Cooper Square   (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
             East Village, Manhattan
             New York City
             Meeting Room: 503  (** New Building: 5th Floor **)

      Time:  6:15 PM - 6:30 PM  Registration
             6:30 PM - 6:45 PM  Ask the Wizard, Questions,
                                Answers and Current Events
             6:45 PM - 7:00 PM  Unigroup Business and Announcements
             7:00 PM - 9:30 PM  Main Presentation

      Cost:  See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.


   INTRODUCTION:
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   For our July 2019 meeting, Unigroup is welcoming back
   Scality's Candida Valois, who last presented to Unigroup on
   20-OCT-2016 on the topic of: Fundamentals of Using Object
   Storage.  This month's presentation will discuss using the
   Zenko Open-Source Data Controller to access Multi-Cloud data
   from various cloud storage vendors/systems, where each may
   be using a variety of back-end cloud storage/data protocols.

   Unigroup has a couple handfuls of speakers lined up for our
   upcoming meetings, and we are working on locking down
   topics/speakers to meeting dates (see the updated Upcoming
   Meetings section below).

   Unigroup's Meeting Calendar:
   18-JUL-2019: Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller
                (Scality/Candida Valois).
   19-SEP-2019: To-be-determined.

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   SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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   Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!

   To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
   Registration Page:
     http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

   This will allow us to automate the registration process.
   (Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
   Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.

   Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
   for any last minute updates concerning this meeting.  If you
   registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
   minute announcements as the meeting approaches.  Also make sure
   any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
   If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
   our mailing list.

   Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
   Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
   of our Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site.  NO OTHER
   SOURCE provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.

   Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
   prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
   RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

   Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
         will let you into the building.  RSVP also helps us to
         properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
         seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
         If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
         still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
         we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
         you are "not on the list" (note: things tend to work out OK).

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   MAIN PRESENTATION
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   Topic:  Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller

   Related Topics/Keywords
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   Computer Storage, Object Storage, Cloud Storage, File Storage,
   Multi-Cloud, Storage Architecture, Microservices,
   Cloud APIs, Cloud Storage APIs, Kubernetes,
   Cloud Data Development, Cloud Data Management, Data Replication,
   Reliable Distributed Storage, CEPH RADOS, AWS S3.

   Introduction & Description of Talk
   ----------------------------------

   Today's world is multi-cloud: in a recent 2018 study, 81 percent
   of enterprises respondent confirmed they had a multi-cloud strategy
   (Flexera Blog: https://bit.ly/2EGVZwH).  One can only assume these
   multi-cloud strategies come from the fear of vendor lock-in: in
   July 2017, a study found that vendor lock-in was a concern for 80%
   of enterprises (Stratoscale Study: https://bit.ly/2J9Ys1j).

   For engineers and sysadmins, multi-cloud strategies usually imply
   complexity: multiple APIs, multiple endpoints, and opaque workflows.
   Hence why Scality made Zenko (http://www.zenko.io), the free open
   source Multi-Cloud Data Controller.  Zenko is a modular stack of
   microservices, that leverages Kubernetes for seamless
   deployment and management.

   Zenko gives you the freedom to manage your data across all the main
   public clouds (currently: AWS S3, MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform,
   Digital Ocean Spaces, Wasabi; upcoming: Backblaze B2) and private
   clouds (Scality RING, local (privately hosted) S3 buckets, and soon
   Ceph RADOS) using a single endpoint (of your choice), and a single
   API: the S3 API.  Zenko also lets you replicate across all these
   backends, and do metadata search across all of them.  Practically,
   this means you get a single namespace across all of your backends.
   As if that wasn't enough, Zenko also comes with a web management UI,
   Orbit, that lets even the least technical of us set up replication
   across their storage infrastructure(s).

   Finally, Zenko writes everything in native format, committing to
   giving you and your data freedom: Zenko is not a restrictive
   gateway: once you used it to write your data using the S3 protocol
   to any cloud, you may access / transform / read / get that data
   with any tool compatible with the backend you wrote to (including
   tools native to that backend).

   This talk will assess the current state of multi-cloud,
   the enterprises need for more transparency on how their data is managed,
   and the solutions brought to them by Zenko, a free open-source stack
   of microservices that scales up to petabyte-scale
   for multi-cloud storage.  The talk will include a live demo.

   Presentation Outline
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   (See above)

   References & Web Resources:
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   Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller:
     http://www.zenko.io

   Scality:
     http://www.scality.com

   Scality Technical Resources/Whitepapers/Videos:
     http://www.scality.com/resources/

   Scality Blog:
     http://www.scality.com/blog/

   Cloud Computing Trends: 2018 State of the Cloud Survey - Cloud Management
     http://blogs.flexera.com/cloud/cloud-industry-insights/cloud-computing-trends-2018-state-of-the-cloud-survey/

   Stratoscale Survey: Hybrid Cloud Survey Reveals 8 out of 10 Enterprises Fear Vendor Lock...
     http://www.stratoscale.com/press/stratoscale-hybrid-cloud-survey-reveals-8-10-enterprises-fear-vendor-lock-avoid-running-sensitive-data-public-cloud/

   Unigroup's Fundamentals of Using Object Storage Meeting:
     http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-201610.html

   Wikipedia on Cloud Storage:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_storage

   Wikipedia on Object Storage:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage

   ADMIN Magazine: The RADOS Object Store and Ceph Filesystem:
     http://www.admin-magazine.com/HPC/Articles/The-RADOS-Object-Store-and-Ceph-Filesystem

   Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3):
     http://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3/index.html

   Amazon S3 REST API Introduction - Amazon Simple Storage Service
     http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html

   Wikipedia on CEPH:
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph_(software)

   Ceph RADOS block devices (RBD)
     http://ceph.com/ceph-storage/block-storage/

   CEPH RADOS (Reliable Autonomic Distributed Object Store):
     http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/

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   Speaker Biography
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   Candida Valois, Senior Sales Engineer, Scality.

   Candida Valois is a Senior Sales Engineer with 18+ years of IT
   experience in architecture and development of software products
   and solutions for various industries across many countries.
   Currently helping customers achieve their Cloud Object Storage
   and Software Defined Storage architecture implementation goals.

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   Company Biography
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   Scality is the leader in software-defined storage at petabyte-scale.
   Founded in 2009, Scality has deployed software storage solutions
   that delivers billions of files to more than one hundred million
   users daily with 100% availability.  Scality customers include the
   world's largest enterprises, particularly in media,
   telecommunications, and cloud.  For more information please visit
   the Scality Web Site: http://www.scality.com.

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   Giveaways:
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   Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
   been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
   books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
   meetings.  The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
   the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

   Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
   provided by their User Group programs.

   As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
   start of the meeting.

   Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to
         restock.

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   Fee Schedule:
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   Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
   and its members pay a yearly membership fee.  For Unigroup members,
   there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
   their membership year.  Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
   meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

       Yearly Membership (includes all meetings):      $ 50.00
       Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID):   $ 25.00
       Non-Member Single Meeting Fee:                  $ 20.00
       Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID):   $  5.00

     * Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
                        MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).

     ! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
       currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
       full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
       a CURRENT date.  We have been presented Student IDs
       containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
       current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
       to university facilities just does not feel right.
       If your ID contains no date, please bring
       additional proof of current enrollment.  Thanks,

   NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
         NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

   Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
            you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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   Food:
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   Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.

   We expect to have Pizza, soft drinks, and cookies/brownies
   at this meeting.

   Scality will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting.
   Thanks Scality!

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   Directions:
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     The Cooper Union  <http://www.cooper.edu>
     School of Engineering  (*** New Building ***)
     41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
     East Village, Manhattan
     New York City, 10003
     Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

   Located on the East side of Cooper Square.  Look for the
   new building with the non-traditional appearance.
   Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

   Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
   Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
     directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

   Nearest mass transit stations are:
     '6'           to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
                   then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
     'R'           to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
                   then 1 block South.
     '4/5/N/Q'     to Union Square, then walk South and East.
                   or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
     'B/D/F/V'     to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
                   or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.

   Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

   There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
     Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of
     Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.

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   Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
   Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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   ** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
      in an upcoming announcement.  Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
      to all our speakers and sponsors!

   Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
   and its staff, for hosting our meetings.

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
   ----------------------------

   a) NYC*BUG - NYC BSD User Group - July 2019 Meeting
      ================================================

      : From: NYC*BUG Announcements
      : Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG July 10: Everyday ZFS
      :
      : Everyday ZFS, Brian Reynolds
      : 2019-07-10 @ 18:45 - Suspenders, 108 Greenwich Street; typically on the
      : second floor, otherwise on the first
      :
      : The ZFS storage management system from Sun Microsystems, and available
      : for FreeBSD, is well known for data reliability in the data center. This
      : talk will discuss using ZFS in more low key environments like the
      : desktop, or on your laptop.

      For information visit:
        http://www.nycbug.org

   b) AWS Summit NYC
      ==============

      Date:  Thu, Jul 11, 2019

      Where: Javits Center
             Midtown, NYC

      For information and complimentary registration visit:
        https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/new-york/expo/

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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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   We have a series of meetings in the works:
   - 2019??: Open Source Security Tools and Current Security Threats
   - 2019??: Multi-Path Redundant Networking/Routing/Switching
   - 2019??: IBM AIX Tuning and AIX Update
   - 2019??: SDP - Software Defined Perimeter
   - 2019??: Linux on ARM
   - 2019??: AI+ML using Open Source Tools
   - 2019??: The Latest C++ Standards, Part 2.
   - Planning: New CPU Architectures, x86 and ARM.
   - Planning: Programming for Performance with GPUs.
   - Planning: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
   - Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
   - Planning: Building a Data Server with ZFS
   - Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
   - Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
   - Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
   - Planning: IPsec and VPNs  (possibly 2 meetings)
   - Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
   - Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
   - Planning: NO SPAM!
   - Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
   - Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
   - Planning: The latest on AIX
   - Planning: Security Threats & Anti-Virus
   - Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
   - Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
   - Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
   - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
   - LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
   - Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
   - Samba
   - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
   - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
   - GNU Development Environments
   - Java and/or JavaScript Programming
   - Web Development Frameworks

   ** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
   Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
   interested in.  Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
   technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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   Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
   the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
   Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
   volunteer organization.  Unigroup holds regular and special event
   meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to the
   Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities.  Unigroup
   meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
   Administrators, and Software Developers.

   Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
   THURSDAY of Odd Months.  We generally try to hold Field Trip or
   Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
   ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

   Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
     07/18/2019, 09/19/2019, 10/17/2019, 11/21/2019, 01/16/2010, ...
   Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
   facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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   = For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
   = visit our World Wide Web Home Page:                                   =
   =       http://www.unigroup.org                                         =
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   For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
   List send an EMail message to:
        unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org

   To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
        uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org

   If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
   Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
   corrections to our lists.

   Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
   meeting topics and speakers.  Unigroup welcomes contributions and
   content suggestions for our newsletter.  Unigroup is a volunteer
   organization and we need your assistance!  Please let us know if you
   can help!

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-Rob Weiner
 Unigroup Executive Director
 unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
 http://www.unigroup.org

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