Moving a Large Workload from a Public Cloud to an OpenStack Private Cloud: Is It Really Worth It?

Nicolas Brousse is Senior Director of Operations Engineering at TubeMogul (NASDAQ: TUBE). The company's sixth employee and first operations hire, Nicolas has grown TubeMogul's infrastructure over the past seven years from several machines to over two thousand servers that handle billions of requests per day for clients like Allstate, Chrysler, Heineken and Hotels.com.

Adept at adapting quickly to ongoing business needs and constraints, Nicolas leads a global team of site reliability engineers and database architects that monitor TubeMogul's infrastructure 24/7 and adhere to "DevOps" methodology. Nicolas is a frequent speaker at top U.S. technology conferences and regularly gives advice to other operations engineers. Prior to relocating to the U.S. to join TubeMogul, Nicolas worked in technology for over 15 years, managing heavy traffic and large user databases for companies like MultiMania, Lycos and Kewego. Nicolas lives in Richmond, CA, and is an avid fisherman and aspiring cowboy.