Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue
Could you introduce yourself – who is Giles Sirett? I’m the CEO and founder of ShapeBlue. I founded ShapeBlue in 2011. I’m responsible for overall strategy, strategic partnerships, sales, and finance, and I have oversight of the various teams within the company. Before ShapeBlue, I’d been in the industry for 20 years. I was CEO […]
From CloudStack User to Head of Cloud Architecture at The CloudStack Company
Hi, I’m Ingo, and I’d like to share a bit about my journey and my first six months at ShapeBlue. Before joining ShapeBlue, I worked in a variety of roles across the IT infrastructure landscape — from Cloud Systems Engineer to Team Lead and eventually Head of Datacenter. My career has always revolved around infrastructure: […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Rohit Yadav, CTO of ShapeBlue
For our readers- who is Rohit Yadav? I’m Rohit Yadav, CTO at ShapeBlue and a long-time contributor to the open source cloud orchestration project Apache CloudStack as a committer and PMC member. In the open source community, over the years, I’ve held various roles including the VP of the CloudStack project and release manager of […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Ivet Petrova, Marketing Director of ShapeBlue
Who is Ivet Petrova? Marketing Director at ShapeBlue and Apache CloudStack PMC Member. I am a change-driven professional passionate about tackling new challenges. I’ve been working in the IT industry for the majority of my career, closely following its rapid evolution, emerging trends, and innovations. As a professional, I strive to lead by example – […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Steve Roles, COO of ShapeBlue
For those unfamiliar – who is Steve Roles, and what is your role at ShapeBlue? I am the Chief Operations Officer (COO). As COO there isn’t an area of the business that I’m not involved with – sales, finance, the service desk and project management to name but a few. I guess most of my […]
What Enterprises Can Learn from Cloud Service Providers
Enterprises face a multitude of technology challenges when managing internal infrastructure and virtualization, that often hinder their ability to operate efficiently and innovate at scale. Legacy systems and technical debt can create barriers to efficiency. Cloud adoption, while beneficial, brings its own set of issues related to governance, performance optimization, efficiency and cost control, especially […]
Empowering Excellence: ShapeBlue’s Commitment to Employee Ownership
At ShapeBlue, our employees are not just our workforce – they are our partners in success. We have built our organisational culture around core values of empowerment, ownership and responsibility, openness, honesty and fairness, and creating value through our work. Our commitment to these principles forms the foundation of our employee ownership model, fostering a […]
Mastering CloudStack with ShapeBlue’s Apache CloudStack Online Bootcamps
Companies choosing to adopt Apache CloudStack as part of their infrastructure have several options. Either to hire CloudStack professionals to help them by providing support, or to train their own staff. Those choosing the latter option can enrol their employee in our remote bootcamps, which are regularly held throughout the year, rather than doing the […]
ShapeBlue Joins the Good Business Charter, Demonstrating Commitment to Responsible Business Practices
ShapeBlue is delighted to announce it has joined leading companies in the United Kingdom in signing up to the Good Business Charter (GBC), an accreditation that seeks to raise the bar on business practices for employees, tax, the environment, customers and suppliers. As an employee-owned company, we believe in the importance for businesses to regain […]
ShapeBlue Has Become an Employee-Owned Business
Today we announcе that ShapeBlue is now a 100% employee-owned business: owned by all of its employees, for the benefit of all of those employees. I will continue as full-time CEO, and am excited to do so, but am no longer a shareholder in the business. The business is now legally owned by a trust […]
