State of the Hypervisor Market

In the ever-evolving realm of virtualization, hypervisors are a fundamental technology enabling the management of virtual machines. The choice of the underlying hypervisor for CloudStack-based clouds is one of the most important architectural decisions to make, impacting everything from resource utilisation to IT budgeting and the ability to adapt to future technological shifts. Unlike other solutions on the market, Apache CloudStack is a hypervisor-agnostic solution. This gives you the freedom to build your own flexible technology stack, optimise costs and ensure a more competitive price for your end products. At ShapeBlue, we are often asked by our customers what’s going […]

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VMware abstraction with Apache CloudStack

VMware Abstraction Using Apache CloudStack

The hypervisor market is in a state of flux. For over a decade, VMware has entrenched itself as the gold-standard virtualisation platform for enterprises. However, their relentless march for revenue, expected to deepen by announcements earlier this year, has led many users to reconsider their long-term strategy. In the service provider space, the weight of this decision is amplified by the need to maintain margins for public cloud services. Over the past decade, alternative virtualisation platforms (such as KVM and XCP-ng) have started to demonstrate that they are serious contenders for enterprise use. At ShapeBlue, we have seen a slow […]

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CloudStack vs. OpenStack Comparison – What you need to know before choosing a cloud management system

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is recognized as facilitating speed-to-market and for its ability to drive business agility. When a company demands specific answers to a business problem, the answers lie in a jumble of calculations, including investments and platform operation and maintenance. Apache Cloudstack and OpenStack are two widely-known Cloud Management Platforms that can provide an effective abstraction layer for your cloud infrastructure. Both are similar in terms of the services they deliver but seen from an operational perspective, they are very different. So, which one is the right choice for your company? Let’s take a look at how […]

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Pricing IaaS the Right Way

Pricing Your IaaS Offering the Right Way

There is currently enormous market demand for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), with organisations looking for the right solution to host their applications and workloads, build a high-performing test/dev environment or deploy a hybrid cloud solution. Others, like telcos and MSPs, need to offer a full range of services to their customers, and the cloud is key for them. This means the IaaS market is attractive for service providers around the globe to enter and launch public cloud services. Whether you launch a new service on existing infrastructure or deploy completely new infrastructure, correct pricing is vital to ensure your […]

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