Omar Khedher - Mastering OpenStack

Omar Khedher is a network engineer and cloud computing researcher. Based in the Netherlands, he has worked in a cloud computing solution project that turned into an OpenStack deployment and became integrated with it. Leveraging his skills as a system administrator in virtualization, storage, and networking, he is currently pursuing a PhD on performance research preparation in the cloud computing paradigm and architecture patterns in which OpenStack is taking an active part. He has recently authored a few academic publications based on new researches for the cloud performance improvement.

A big thanks goes out to my PhD supervisor, Dr. Mohamed, in KSA, my professional friend Belgacem in Tunisia for his guidance, critics, and my special colleagues at the company for sharing their knowledge at HiQInvest. I appreciate the encouragement provided by my new family in the Netherlands and the warmth they provided to make me feel at home. I would like to thank all the reviewers of this book for their accurate notes and precious remarks. I extend a special thank to Merwyn D'souza for his continued and great work on this book, which has been a big piece of work. I am grateful to William Sprakel, who has helped me dive into the cloud computing world and also Michiel Karnebeek and Rick Stokkingreef for sharing their knowledge. Of course, a big thank you to the OpenStack community for the wonderful work in making the cloud computing solution such a unique and wonderful experience.

Derek Chamorro is a network security engineer/architect with 15 years of experience in information technology. He first started his career with cable MSOs, working in a variety of roles ranging from technical support to network architecture. He has spent the last 3 years focused on abstracted computing and software-defined networking using a variety of new technologies to enhance security and automation within next-generation networks. Derek currently works at Cisco Systems as a technical engineering lead for Cisco Cloud services. He specializes in network virtualization and enjoys working with Open vSwitch development.

In his spare time, Derek enjoys distance running, Asian cooking, and microbrewing beer.

Ryan Hallisey is a software engineer at Red Hat. He has worked on OpenStack for 2 years. Primarily, his focus is on developing SELinux to function for enterprise OpenStack solutions as well as developing the Tripleo installer and containerizing OpenStack using Docker.

Dr. Benoit Hudzia is a cloud/system architect working on designing the next generation cloud technology as well as running the Irish operations for Stratoscale.

He previously worked as a senior researcher-architect for SAP on HANA Enterprise Cloud.

Benoit has authored more than 20 academic publications and is also the holder of numerous patents in the domains of virtualization, OS, cloud, distributed system, and so on. His code and ideas are included in various SAP commercial solutions as well as open source solutions such as the QEMU/KVM hypervisor, the Linux kernel, and OpenStack.

His research currently focuses on bringing together the flexibility of virtualization, cloud, and high-performance computing (also known as the "Lego cloud"). This framework aims to provide the memory, I/O, and CPU resource disaggregation of physical servers while enabling dynamic management and aggregation capabilities on Linux native applications as well as Linux/KVM VMs using commodity hardware.

Bhargesh Patel completed his MTech in computer engineering from Dharmsinh Desai University, Nadiad. He has more than 3 years of teaching experience in cloud computing security, big data mining, and networking. Currently, he is working with G H Patel College of Engineering and Technology, Vallabh Vidyanagar. His areas of interest are cloud computing, grid computing, data mining, operating systems, computer networks, and cyber security. Currently, he is working on cloud security and big data mining projects.

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I would like to dedicate this book to my family, who supported me immensely throughout the writing of this book.