Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Giles Sirett, CEO of ShapeBlue
Could you introduce yourself – who is Giles Sirett? I’m the CEO and founder of ShapeBlue. I founded ShapeBlue in 2011. I’m responsible for overall strategy, strategic partnerships, sales, and finance, and I have oversight of the various teams within the company. Before ShapeBlue, I’d been in the industry for 20 years. I was CEO […]
From CloudStack User to Head of Cloud Architecture at The CloudStack Company
Hi, I’m Ingo, and I’d like to share a bit about my journey and my first six months at ShapeBlue. Before joining ShapeBlue, I worked in a variety of roles across the IT infrastructure landscape — from Cloud Systems Engineer to Team Lead and eventually Head of Datacenter. My career has always revolved around infrastructure: […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Rohit Yadav, CTO of ShapeBlue
For our readers- who is Rohit Yadav? I’m Rohit Yadav, CTO at ShapeBlue and a long-time contributor to the open source cloud orchestration project Apache CloudStack as a committer and PMC member. In the open source community, over the years, I’ve held various roles including the VP of the CloudStack project and release manager of […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Ivet Petrova, Marketing Director of ShapeBlue
Who is Ivet Petrova? Marketing Director at ShapeBlue and Apache CloudStack PMC Member. I am a change-driven professional passionate about tackling new challenges. I’ve been working in the IT industry for the majority of my career, closely following its rapid evolution, emerging trends, and innovations. As a professional, I strive to lead by example – […]
Executive Perspectives: ShapeBlue Leadership Talks: An Interview with Steve Roles, COO of ShapeBlue
For those unfamiliar – who is Steve Roles, and what is your role at ShapeBlue? I am the Chief Operations Officer (COO). As COO there isn’t an area of the business that I’m not involved with – sales, finance, the service desk and project management to name but a few. I guess most of my […]
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 […]
ShapeBlue and Ampere Reference Architecture for IaaS Cloud on ARM64 Architecture
As organizations increasingly build on-premises clouds or enter the Service Provider market with public cloud offerings, the need for the right set of tools to launch, manage and scale the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform has never been greater. However, selecting the appropriate technology stack can be a challenging decision. From hardware to hypervisor, […]
ShapeBlue Supports the CloudStack European User Group 2025
The CloudStack European User Group (CSEUG) 2025 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria on May 8th, at the Quartier Belvedere Central 3. This spring’s CSEUG local host will be LINBIT, the company behind the open-source storage software DRBD and LINBIT. ShapeBlue is proud to be sponsoring the User Group once again, alongside LINBIT and […]
ShapeBlue Joins CloudFest 2025 to Support the Apache CloudStack Project
From March 17-20, the world’s leading internet infrastructure event – CloudFest – will return to Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. ShapeBlue will be supporting the Apache CloudStack project, with a number of team members helping at the booth alongside other community members. For the third consecutive year, Apache CloudStack will have a presence at CloudFest, showcasing […]
ShapeBlue Security Advisory: Unauthorised access to annotations
The Apache CloudStack project has announced an advisory against CVE-2025-22828 (severity ‘Low’) – Unauthorised access to annotation. Affected Versions Apache CloudStack 4.16.0 or later. Description and Resolution CloudStack users can add and read comments (annotations) on resources they are authorised to access. Due to an access validation issue that affects Apache CloudStack versions […]
