[2024]Digital Global Overview Report 2024 Meltwater.pdf
Cloudstack never heard of it
1. CloudStack – Never heard of it!
Giles Sirett
CEO, ShapeBlue
Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue
2. @ShapeBlue #CloudStack #CCCNA14 CloudStack Collaboration Conference NA 2014
10:30-11:05
Giles Sirett: the challenges we face in terms of awareness & market
perception
11:05 – 11:40
Mark Hinkle: opportunities for better promoting Apache CloudStack to
improve awareness and to reduce friction due to lack of brand awareness
11:40 – 12:15
Aaron Delp & Ken Hui: ways to get started in Social Media including Twitter,
Blogging, Podcasting, and Video Creation (The Social Media Pyramid) as
tools for both personal and community involvement
Our own “mini – track”
3. @ShapeBlue #CloudStack #CCCNA14 CloudStack Collaboration Conference NA 2014
CEO of ShapeBlue
Been working with ACS since late 2011
PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack
Chairman – European CloudStack user group
Declaration: I’m a business guy
Also: Physicist, ex-programmer, husband, runner, Dad, rugby
coach
About Me
4. @ShapeBlue #CloudStack #CCCNA14 CloudStack Collaboration Conference NA 2014
My Qualifications for this subject
Weaknesses
Being focused on a single
technology as an expert can
be a good differentiator, but
also means the target market
is considerably smaller.
Threats
Much of the company's success
depends on CloudStack's success. If
OpenStack takes off as much as its
participants hope, will CloudStack be
less relevant?
451 Research, Feb 2014
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“CloudStack –
Never heard of
it!”
Architect at unnamed
company that now runs a
200 host production ACS
environment
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________ ___ is the smallest amount of fissile
material needed for a sustained nuclear chain
reaction.
Critical Mass
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Our main defence play
We are production ready,
we’re easy to install. That
other thing you’re
considering isn’t
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The world according to ASF
The roles
• Users
• Contributors
• Committers
• PMC
• Customers?
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The most important participants in the project are people who use our
software. Users can contribute to the Apache projects by providing
feedback to developers in the form of bug reports and feature
suggestions. As well, users can participate in the Apache community by
helping other users on mailing lists and user support forums. Users who
participate in the project through any mechanism are considered to be
Contributors
The most important participants in the project are the
people who don’t contribute directly to the project.
They are the people who influence others in order to
allow them to use our software. They are the customers
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The FOSS adoption cycle
Contributors
Committers
Development
Adoption
Users
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Problem #4
Our largest contributor has a $dayjob
Citrix do not sell CloudStack
No incentive at grassroots level
Waiver: Citrix created this thing, that was visionary. Citrix spend $$$$ in supporting
this project. They are our biggest contributor and, without their hard work, events
like this wouldn’t happen …..today
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Problem #7
“I could see the
tumbleweeds
blowing through
your community”
CEO of SDN startup
Mailing lists don’t demonstrate
activity well to outside world
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Summary
A great product, great community
Perception & awareness problems
Our structure doesn't let us engage well with
customers
Need for more coherent marketing
How do we fix it ?
42. CloudStack – Never heard of it!
Giles Sirett
CEO, ShapeBlue
Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue