How Cloud and Virtualisation Market Reshaped in 2025
2025 was a year of significant restructuring of the cloud and virtualisation market. Uncertainty with vendors, rising need for better cost control, rapid adoption of AI workloads and new requirements around data sovereignty pushed organisations to reassess long-established assumptions about where and how their workloads should run. After years of “cloud-first” enthusiasm, many companies shifted […]
Apache CloudStack 4.22 – Release Overview
Apache CloudStack 4.22 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release focused on stability and production readiness. It consolidates the platform work introduced in 4.21 and delivers targeted improvements in Backup and DR, VMware migration, Extensions, and operational observability. Highlights include enhanced Backup & DR (cross-zone restore, Ceph/Shared MountPoint support, backup selection at deploy), SSL offloading on […]
Apache CloudStack 4.21: GPU Power Meets Seamless Orchestration
Apache CloudStack 4.21.0 is the latest community release and is the result of approximately eight months of active development and collaboration. With contributions from a number of community members, this version delivers 15 new features, around 40 improvements and more than 150 bug fixes since 4.20. The release introduces meaningful enhancements continuing the project’s focus on […]
Apache CloudStack vs. Proxmox for Your Virtual Environment: A Comprehensive Comparison
Apache CloudStack and Proxmox are two widely used platforms for managing virtualisation environments, each catering for different use cases and organisational needs. While Proxmox is designed as a robust virtualisation platform suitable for small and medium-sized businesses, CloudStack is a fully-fledged cloud management platform designed for scalable and multi-tenant cloud environments across businesses of all […]
Looking for a Nutanix Alternative? Why Open Source Infrastructure Ensures Long-Term Freedom
Explore Apache CloudStack as a compelling open-source alternative to Nutanix. This article reviews Apache CloudStack as a Nutanix replacement for organisations seeking infrastructure flexibility, vendor neutrality, and long-term cost efficiency. While Nutanix provides a robust hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform with integrated compute, storage, and networking, it imposes limitations such as hardware lock-in, proprietary ecosystems, and […]
Automating Infrastructure with Terraform and Apache CloudStack
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is transforming the way IT teams provision, manage, and scale cloud environments. Rather than relying on manual steps or scripts, infrastructure can now be defined in human-readable configuration files, enabling repeatability, version control, and automation. When it comes to managing resources in Apache CloudStack, Terraform stands out as a powerful and […]
CloudStack vs. VMware: The Best Open-Source VMware Alternatives
The Broadcom acquisition of VMware has driven rising costs, licensing uncertainty, and vendor lock-in concerns—prompting organisations to actively seek open-source alternatives, with Apache CloudStack emerging as the strongest, most mature, and cost-effective VMware replacement. In this page, you will find detailed information on VMware alternatives if you are looking for a VMware exit path. The […]
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 […]
Apache CloudStack Public Demo Cloud – Get Instant Access to a CloudStack Demo Environment
Open-source technology has the power to transform businesses, providing flexibility, cost-efficiency, and scalability. However, not every organization has the time or resources to thoroughly evaluate new technologies through a detailed Proof of Concept. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Apache CloudStack Public Demo Cloud—a hassle-free way to explore Apache CloudStack’s capabilities instantly. This initiative […]
Apache CloudStack vs. Nutanix as VMware Alternatives for Virtualisation Management
The search for VMware alternatives has intensified amidst significant shifts in the virtualisation and enterprise cloud computing market, particularly following VMware’s acquisition by Broadcom. In this article, we will compare Apache CloudStack and Nutanix as VMware alternatives. Nutanix and CloudStack emerge as two leading options for virtualization and cloud management. With VMware’s pricing changes and […]
