CloudStack Collaboration Conference: Europe’s most significant cloud conference for 2013?
Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue discusses why the upcoming Cloudstack Collaboration conference in Amsterdam may be a lot more significant than many people think. The title of this article is bold, I know. A lot of people are going to question whether a conference around a specific open-source project can really be billed as the […]
Deploying CloudStack with Ansible
In this article, Paul Angus Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue takes a look at using Ansible to Deploy an Apache CloudStack cloud. What is Ansible Ansible is a deployment and configuration management tool similar in intent to Chef and Puppet. It allows (usually) DevOps teams to orchestrate the deployment and configuration of their environments without having to […]
Build a Cloud Day | Event Roundup
On Thursday 10th October, the quarterly meeting of the CloudStack European User Group was combined with a Build A Cloud Day – a format for people looking to understand the basics of building clouds using open-source technology. The event was hosted by our friends ControlCircle: a leading provider of managed and cloud-based services to enterprises […]
Citrix CloudPlatform 4.2 – a first review
With much fanfare, Citrix yesterday formally announced the 4.2 release of their IaaS cloud orchestration technology CloudPlatform. In parallel, the Apache Software Foundation are about to announce version 4.2 of Cloudstack. In this article, Giles Sirett CEO of ShapeBlue gives his first impressions on CloudPlatform 4.2 At ShapeBlue, we’ve had both of these technologies on […]
CloudStack 101
What Is Apache CloudStack™ Apache CloudStack™ is an open source software platform that pools computing resources to build Public, Private, and Hybrid Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. Apache CloudStack manages the Network, Storage, and Compute nodes that make up a Cloud infrastructure. The Story So Far. CloudStack started life as VMOps, a company founded […]
CloudStack European User Group | Event Roundup
There was a great turnout for the July meeting of the European CloudStack User Group. It was fantastic to see a good mix of developers, users, integrators and customers: all in the room ready to share experiences and ideas around CloudStack. One interesting observation was that we had representatives from organisations using Apache CloudStack and […]
Apache CloudStack 4.1 | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack 4.1 has just been released, bringing with it a raft of new features and improvements. 4.1 presents a milestone for Apache CloudStack as it is the first release since the projects graduation to a top level Apache project. Here’ I take a detailed look at some of the new features Add / Remove Network on […]
CloudStack European User Group Meeting 2013 | Event Roundup
The CloudStack European User group met on Thursday 11th for our quarterly meeting. We had a packed room, with standing room only and attendees coming from as far afield as UK, France, Turkey and Germany. Giles Sirett (CEO of ShapeBlue, Chairman of the Group, and author of this blog) opened the meeting with his usual […]
CloudStack becomes a Top-Level Apache Project – why all the fuss ?
Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue the Cloud specialists, gives his opinion on the recent news that Apache CloudStack has graduated to a Top level Apache project. You can read the full the full story, here, but in summary, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today released this : The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, […]
Bangalore cloud conference
As the world transitions to the cloud era, the convergence of private, enterprise clouds and public cloud services offers exciting new possibilities to IT teams and businesses. This event will give an executive briefing on the drivers, developments and innovations that are expected to influence the adoption of cloud over the next 12 months.The target […]
