Hi all,
time for the first round of work! ;-)
The Linux Foundation wishes to send out a press release about this new
working group at the time of Collab Summit. Which is all fairly short
notice, for which I apologize, but I only got the draft Friday evening
too.
This is the proposed draft - it's fairly late, and apparently, the
blandness is a bit by design, I'm told. ;-) So we don't get to do major
changes, but can do minor corrections & edits.
Please discuss them here; I'll aggregate & pass them on to their press
person Tuesday night.
Also, the press release is intended to be spiced up with company quote
section; always looks good, apparently. But clearly, we can't discuss
company statements here, so that section isn't included in this draft.
If your company is interested, please pass on a press contact to me! The
LF will then directly contact you.
> The Linux Foundation Announces High Availability Working Group
>
> New demands on high-availability computing are met with collaborative
> approach to hosting projects, prioritizing features
>
> SAN FRANCISCO {Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit} April 6, 2011 ?
> The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to
> accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the formation of the
> High Availability (HA) Working Group.
>
> The Working Group will bring together projects and stakeholders to
> collaboratively define the open source HA software stack and
> prioritize features based on input from developers, vendors, and
> customers that include the companies and governments running
> mission-critical workloads in the world's most sophisticated
> environments.
>
> The projects that will participate in this forum hosted by The Linux
> Foundation include corosync, DRBD, GFS2, hawk, Linux-HA, Linux Virtual
> Server, OCFS2, Open Clustering Framework, and pacemaker. Founding
> companies include LIN:BIT Novell, NTT, Oracle and Red Hat. The
> technology is already adopted by Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu,
> as well as the leading enterprise distributions.
>
> There will a full-day track dedicated to HA at the upcoming Linux
> Foundation Collaboration Summit:
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/hpc.
> And, the HA Working Group members will be meeting at a mini-summit
> preceding the The Linux Foundation's first annual LinuxCon Europe
> taking place in Prague October 24th-26th:
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe.
>
> ?The Linux Foundation?s HA Working Group will bring together leading
> projects to collaborate on a common set of components and priorities
> to support this growing area in the enterprise,? said Jim Zemlin,
> executive director at The Linux Foundation. ?The collaborative
> development model can accelerate the advancement of key technologies
> and we expect the HA Working Group will do just that.?
>
> HA refers to the availability of resources in a computer system or
> network and today is more critical than ever due to internal and
> external demands on infrastructure and applications. Ranging by
> industry, analysts have estimated that the cost of computing downtime
> is well over $1 million an hour. With an explosion of big data and new
> expectations from business customers and consumers about 24/7
> connectivity, HA is taking center stage among the Linux community.
>
> As the requirements on HA computing have increased, Linux has risen in
> its popularity among companies working on these systems. Achieving HA
> with cluster computing, cloud computing, and virtualization, among
> other strategies, can be maximized with Linux. Commodity-based
> hardware and software components make it easier and more affordable to
> deliver the high-performance, availability and scalability required of
> mission-critical Linux systems.
Regards,
Lars
--
Architect Storage/HA, OPS Engineering, Novell, Inc.
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg)
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde
time for the first round of work! ;-)
The Linux Foundation wishes to send out a press release about this new
working group at the time of Collab Summit. Which is all fairly short
notice, for which I apologize, but I only got the draft Friday evening
too.
This is the proposed draft - it's fairly late, and apparently, the
blandness is a bit by design, I'm told. ;-) So we don't get to do major
changes, but can do minor corrections & edits.
Please discuss them here; I'll aggregate & pass them on to their press
person Tuesday night.
Also, the press release is intended to be spiced up with company quote
section; always looks good, apparently. But clearly, we can't discuss
company statements here, so that section isn't included in this draft.
If your company is interested, please pass on a press contact to me! The
LF will then directly contact you.
> The Linux Foundation Announces High Availability Working Group
>
> New demands on high-availability computing are met with collaborative
> approach to hosting projects, prioritizing features
>
> SAN FRANCISCO {Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit} April 6, 2011 ?
> The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to
> accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced the formation of the
> High Availability (HA) Working Group.
>
> The Working Group will bring together projects and stakeholders to
> collaboratively define the open source HA software stack and
> prioritize features based on input from developers, vendors, and
> customers that include the companies and governments running
> mission-critical workloads in the world's most sophisticated
> environments.
>
> The projects that will participate in this forum hosted by The Linux
> Foundation include corosync, DRBD, GFS2, hawk, Linux-HA, Linux Virtual
> Server, OCFS2, Open Clustering Framework, and pacemaker. Founding
> companies include LIN:BIT Novell, NTT, Oracle and Red Hat. The
> technology is already adopted by Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu,
> as well as the leading enterprise distributions.
>
> There will a full-day track dedicated to HA at the upcoming Linux
> Foundation Collaboration Summit:
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/hpc.
> And, the HA Working Group members will be meeting at a mini-summit
> preceding the The Linux Foundation's first annual LinuxCon Europe
> taking place in Prague October 24th-26th:
> http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe.
>
> ?The Linux Foundation?s HA Working Group will bring together leading
> projects to collaborate on a common set of components and priorities
> to support this growing area in the enterprise,? said Jim Zemlin,
> executive director at The Linux Foundation. ?The collaborative
> development model can accelerate the advancement of key technologies
> and we expect the HA Working Group will do just that.?
>
> HA refers to the availability of resources in a computer system or
> network and today is more critical than ever due to internal and
> external demands on infrastructure and applications. Ranging by
> industry, analysts have estimated that the cost of computing downtime
> is well over $1 million an hour. With an explosion of big data and new
> expectations from business customers and consumers about 24/7
> connectivity, HA is taking center stage among the Linux community.
>
> As the requirements on HA computing have increased, Linux has risen in
> its popularity among companies working on these systems. Achieving HA
> with cluster computing, cloud computing, and virtualization, among
> other strategies, can be maximized with Linux. Commodity-based
> hardware and software components make it easier and more affordable to
> deliver the high-performance, availability and scalability required of
> mission-critical Linux systems.
Regards,
Lars
--
Architect Storage/HA, OPS Engineering, Novell, Inc.
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N?rnberg)
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde