8 Products And Features Unveiled At AWS Summit 2017

AWS Summit Product Roundup

Amazon’s series of Summit events are primarily about educating partners and customers to use the advanced features of the world’s largest public cloud.

But whenever Amazon CTO Werner Vogels takes a stage, as he did to deliver the keynote at the recent AWS Summit in San Francisco, you know he’s not going to resist revealing some cool features to the AWS community.

Vogels didn’t disappoint in San Francisco, showing off a number of new, or newly available, capabilities of AWS cloud.

“Over past few years, cloud has become the new normal,” said the CTO. “The default environment to build apps on.”

With all the new features, partners feel like James Bond, Vogels said, with Amazon, giving them “all these fancy tools,” filling the role of Bond’s innovative quartermaster Q. Read more..

OpenStack Summit 2017 | Boston, MA

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Date : May 8-11, 2017

Location : Boston, MA

Venue : Hynes Convention Center

The world runs on open infrastructure. At the OpenStack Summit, you’ll learn about the mix of open technologies building the modern infrastructure stack, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Ceph, OVS, OpenContrail, OPNFV, and more. Whether you are pursuing a private, public or multi-cloud approach, the OpenStack Summit is the place to network, skill up and plan your cloud strategy.

Hear business cases and operational experience directly from users, learn about new products in the ecosystem and participate in hands-on workshops to build your skills. Attended by thousands of people from more than 60 countries, it’s the ideal venue to plan your cloud strategy and share knowledge about architecting and operating OpenStack clouds.

To register for the event, click here.

AWS Summits 2017 | San Francisco

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Date : April 18-19, 2017

Location : San Francisco

Venue : Moscone West


Why Should You Attend?

Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something new at the AWS Summit. This free event is designed to educate you about the AWS platform. Develop the skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.

Sessions & Workshops

More than 50 learning opportunities: services intros, new service deep dives, solutions and tech talks.

Bootcamps

Hands-on training opportunities in paid training bootcamps.

The HUB

Experience The Hub, a high-energy expo with top AWS technology and consulting partners, and access to AWS engineers and architects. [Know more about the Conference]

ChefConf 2017

Date : May 22-24, 2017

Location : Austin, TX 78701

Venue : JW Marriott Austin

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BUILD. DELIVER. DELIGHT

Chef comes alive when nearly 2,000 passionate leaders, practitioners, and innovators from the DevOps community converge upon Austin, Texas. We’ll present an invigorating blend of technology and local Austin experiences to engage and energize both technical practitioners and corporate leaders. [Know more about the Conference]

2017 DevOps Conferences: Your Guide to Top DevOps Conferences

DevOps Confernces 2017
If you are looking for the best DevOps conferences to learn what’s new in DevOps world. We’ve put together few top conferences to help you choose the ones you want to attend in 2017.

DevOps Enterprise Summit

Web: events.itrevolution.com/us
Date: Nov. 13-15
Location: San Francisco, California.

DevOps Enterprise Summit is a conference for the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The event programming emphasizes both evolving technical and architectural practices and the methods needed to lead widespread change efforts in large organizations. The goal is to give leaders the tools and practices they need to develop and deploy software faster and to win in the marketplace.

DockerCon

Web: 2017.dockercon.com
Date: April 17-20
Location: Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas

DockerCon is the community and container industry conference for makers and operators of next generation distributed apps built with containers. The three-day conference provides talks by practitioners, hands-on labs, an expo hall of Docker ecosystem innovators and great opportunities to share your experiences with other virtual container enthusiasts.

Velocity Conference

Web: conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca
Date: Training, June 19-20; tutorials and conference, June 20-22
Location: San Jose, California

The O’Reilly Velocity Conference: Build resilient distributed systems.
Our industry is evolving rapidly, shifting to a distributed systems stack that spans the application layer all the way down through compute, storage, networking, to the data center (whether yours is in the cloud or not). At Velocity, we’ll delve into these domains, helping you focus on engineering performance and operations from the bottom of the stack right up to the customer.

DevOps Days

Web: devopsdays.org
Date: Varies
Location: Held throughout the year in multiple cities.

Devopsdays is a worldwide series of technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them. Topics often include automation, testing, security, and organizational culture.

ChefConf

Web: chef.io/chefconf
Date: May 22-24
Location: Austin, Texas

Chef comes alive when nearly 2,000 passionate leaders, practitioners, and innovators from the DevOps community converge upon Austin, Texas. We’ll present an invigorating blend of technology and local Austin experiences to engage and energize both technical practitioners and corporate leaders.

Jenkins World

Web: cloudbees.com/jenkinsworld
Date: August 28-29, training and workshops; August 30-31, conference
Location: Marriott Marquis, San Francisco, California

Jenkins World will bring together the largest gathering of Jenkins® users in the world, including Jenkins experts, continuous delivery thought leaders and companies offering complementary technologies for Jenkins. Jenkins World will provide opportunities for attendees to learn, explore and network face-to-face, as well as to help shape the future of Jenkins. Secure your spot now by registering today!

PuppetConf

Web: puppet.com/puppetconf
Date: October 10-12
Location: Hilton San Francisco Union, San Francisco, California

PuppetConf 2017 is your path to sharpening Puppet skills by learning from industry experts, enthusiasts, community members, and Puppet employees. Explore how to drive change across your infrastructure, team, and organization’s culture.

IT/Dev Connections

Web: devconnections.com
Date: October 23-26
Location: Hilton Union Square, San Francisco, California

The IT/Dev Connections teams work hard in the background to bring a seamless and valuable experience each year so all you have to do is show-up.
One of those teams is responsible for the content. Called Track Chairs, these individuals sift through the submitted session proposals to hand-select just the right content and just the right speakers. There’s no question that the content provided at IT/Dev Connections is just right. Our content provides deep technical education without even a hint of marketing or keynote fluff. Developing great and valuable content like we have each year for IT/Dev Connections takes a lot of work, but the effort gets a lot easier when we have the right people on the content team.

Agile Dev West

Web: adcwest.techwell.com
Date: June 4-9
Location: Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada

Discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership rinciples.
Whether you’re new to the agile process and need to get up to speed quickly, or you’re experienced and ready to take your team or organization to the next level, our hands-on, in-depth workshops have you covered. Plus, all Agile Dev West is held in conjunction with Better Software West and DevOps West conferences, allowing you to choose from three distinct programs.

Agile Dev East

Web: adceast.techwell.com
Date: Nov. 5-10
Location: Hilton Orlando Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida

Discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and leadership principles.
Whether you’re new to the agile process and need to get up to speed quickly or you’re experienced and ready to take your team or organization to the next level, our hands-on, in-depth workshops have you covered. Plus, Agile Dev East is held in conjunction with Better Software East and DevOps East, allowing you to choose from three distinct programs.

dockercon17

Date : April 17-20, 2017

Location : Austin, TX

Venue : Austin Convention Center | 500 E. Cesar Chavez St. Austin

DockerCon is the community and container industry conference for makers and operators of next generation distributed apps built with containers. The three-day conference provides talks by practitioners, hands-on labs, an expo hall of Docker ecosystem innovators and great opportunities to share your experiences with other virtual container enthusiasts.

ACTIVITIES

. 3 Keynotes & 7 Tracks . 60+ Breakout Sessions . Community Presentations . Hands-on Lab . Ask The Experts . Workshops . Birds-of-a-feather . Hosted Happy Hours . After Party . Ecosystem Expo
[REGISTER NOW]

ERE Recruiting Conference 17

Date : April 18-20, 2017

Location : San Deigo, CA

Venue : San Diego Marriott

Why ERE?

As a TA leader, I know you’ll only attend one or two or conferences this year, and choosing where to invest your conference dollars is not always easy.

To help your decision making, here are a few good reasons why we think ERE is the best conference for you this spring.

We know TA leaders

ERE’s agenda is built specifically for experienced TA and recruiting leaders like YOU. This is not a “how-to” or “Recruiting 101” conference.

You’ll attend sessions led by experts in the field on topics that matter:

Leadership & successful roadmaps
Future trends, emerging technologies and how to utilize them
Data, predictive analytics, and metrics that matter
The focus this spring is about current changes in the industry that are shaping the future role of talent acquisition. We are bringing together the people and companies that can help you the most in the road ahead. [Know more about the Conference]

OpenStack Summit Boston, MA | May 8-11, 2017

Date : May 8-11 2017

Location : Boston, MA

Venue : Hynes Convention Center

THE MUST-ATTEND: Open Infrastructure Event

The world runs on open infrastructure. At the OpenStack Summit, you’ll learn about the mix of open technologies building the modern infrastructure stack, including OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Ceph, OVS, OpenContrail, OPNFV, and more. Whether you are pursuing a private, public or multi-cloud approach, the OpenStack Summit is the place to network, skill up and plan your cloud strategy.
Hear business cases and operational experience directly from users, learn about new products in the ecosystem and participate in hands-on workshops to build your skills. Attended by thousands of people from more than 60 countries, it’s the ideal venue to plan your cloud strategy and share knowledge about architecting and operating OpenStack clouds. [Know more about the Conference]