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 […]
Understanding CloudStack’s Physical Networking Architecture
Understanding and configuring the physical connections of a host in a CloudStack deployment can at first be very confusing. While Software Defined Networking (SDN) is set to greatly simplify some aspects, its integration within CloudStack is not fully mature yet and it won’t be the right solution for everyone. In this article, Paul Angus, Cloud […]
Citrix Cloud Technologies webinar series REGISTER NOW
As the world transitions to the cloud era, the convergence of private, enterprise clouds and public cloud services offers exciting new possibilities to enterprise IT teams and businesses.During this webinar series, ShapeBlue will discuss the benefits that Citrix cloud solutions offer, from building & delivering clouds through to cloud services that offer organisations the elasticity […]
Apache CloudStack 4.0 – a first review
Giles Sirett, Managing Consultant of ShapeBlue, the cloud specialists, takes a first look at Apache CloudStack 4.0. The Apache software foundation yesterday announced their first release of the CloudStack Cloud Management platform. This is the first release from the Apache community since Citrix’s donation of the technology to them in April of this year. The […]
CloudStack Collab Conference Nov 30- 2 Dec 2012
ShapeBlue are proud to be sponsoring the first CloudStack Collab conference. The event will be between Nov 30 and Dec 2 2012, held at The Venetian, Las Vegas Attendees will enjoy the opportunity to see presentations from the developers contributing to the Apache CloudStack project, as well admins who are using CloudStack to build clouds […]