Datacenter Services choose Apache CloudStack to deliver enterprise grade public IaaS cloud
Datacenter Services choose Apache CloudStack for seamless IaaS deployment. ShapeBlue’s expertise ensures a smooth transition to open-source technology, delivering security, scalability, and 100% uptime.
University of São Paulo move to open source Apache CloudStack to power Latin Americas largest educational cloud | Case Studies
ShapeBlue, The Cloudstack Company, announced that they have been selected to help The University of São Paulo to rapidly scale and enhance their massive “Cloud USP” private cloud by migrating it to Apache Cloudstack open source technology. The project will also involve developing an additional feature set for the USP cloud environment. This follows a […]
ShapeBlue SA extends distribution agreement with NetApp
ShapeBlue SA are pleased to announce the extension of their distribution partner agreement for NetApp in South Africa, building out a successful relationship that started in 2014. ‘ShapeBlue has built a strong partnership with NetApp in this region. Expanding our capabilities to represent the full NetApp portfolio presents a strategic opportunity for us and our […]
CloudStack and the new XenServer licensing model
Citrix have announced that as of XenServer 7.3, the free version (including the ‘opensource’ version packaged by Citrix) will no longer have feature parity with the paid-for Standard version. Of the features which are restricted in the free version, a maximum pool size of 3 hosts and the removal of Xen Storage Motion are going to make the use of free XenServer to run production clouds pretty much untenable.
At Africacom with Netapp Solidfire | Case Studies
ShapeBlue recently attended the AfricaCom show in Cape Town, South Africa. We had an excellent opportunity to catch up with a number of our clients and partners and listened to a number of storage challenges being faced by the industry. We captured some of these thoughts, and also got some updates from our partner NetApp […]
Apache CloudStack 4.9.2 LTS (Long Term Support)
ShapeBlue are delighted to confirm that the latest version of CloudStack is now on our support matrix as a fully supported and recommended version for our customers. We have worked extensively with the CloudStack community on quality control and testing, and this release contains more than 80 bug-fixes and improvements on the CloudStack 4.9 release. […]
ShapeBlue contributes native support for Kubernetes and Docker to Apache CloudStack
Offers seamless Container-as-a-Service without disruption to user experience or business process Sevilla, Spain — 17 November 2016 — ShapeBlue, the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies worldwide, today announced at ApacheCon Europe that it will be donating its CloudStack Container Service software to the Apache CloudStack project. The technology integrates CloudStack with Kubernetes and Docker […]
Shapeblue harness the power of Kubernetes and CloudStack to give Cloud Service providers a seamless Container as a Service offering
Shapeblue, The CloudStack Company, and Skippbox today announced the first release of the CloudStack Container Service: software that gives Cloud Service Providers a Container as a Service (CaaS) offering within their existing IaaS environments. The software gives end-users the ability to use multiple container engines such as Docker and rkt, and hosted container registries like […]
Taxi for Citrix, now time for CloudStack to shine
Today, Citrix announced that it was selling off two product lines: Citrix CloudPlatform and Citrix CloudPortal. For once, many Cloud commentators are right: this absolutely IS Citrix picking up its ball and going home. They’ve thrown this business line over the fence to Accelerite from Persistent Systems. However the sale tells us more about Citrix […]
RSAWEB Selects SolidFire to Provide First and Only Cloud Hosting and Connectivity Solutions in Africa with Guaranteed Storage Performance
With infrastructure and data center as the top technology investment priority for Africa CIOs in 2015, SolidFire’s storage platform enables businesses to increase agility and benefit from the cloud BOULDER & CAPE TOWN, August 18, 2015 –ShapeBlue and SolidFire, the leader in all-flash storage systems built for the Next Generation Data Center, today announced that […]
