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

[je...@panix.com]

Unigroup is happening next week on Thursday evening...
Please RSVP, if you are planning to attend...

=================================================================
UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JULY 2019 ANNOUNCEMENTS
=================================================================

------------------------------------
1. UNIGROUP'S JULY 2019 GENERAL MEETING
------------------------------------

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

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:
-------------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
---------------------

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).

-------------------------------------------------------------------

MAIN PRESENTATION
-----------------

Topic: Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller

Related Topics/Keywords
-----------------------

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
--------------------

(See above)

References & Web Resources:
---------------------------

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/

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Speaker Biography
-----------------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Company Biography
-----------------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Giveaways:
----------

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.

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Fee Schedule:
-------------

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!

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Food:
-----

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!

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Directions:
-----------

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.

-----

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

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------
2. PRIOR MEETINGS
--------------

** 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.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------
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/

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------------
4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
-----------------

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.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------
5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
--------------------

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.

=========================================================================
= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
=========================================================================

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!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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