Giles Sirett of Shapeblue gives welcome to European CloudStack User Group

1. European CloudStack User Group
Welcome
Giles Sirett
Group Chairman
giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue

2. 13:15 – 13:45 Welcome, Cloudstack News & Collaboration Conference Roundup (Giles
Sirett, ShapeBlue)
13:45 – 14:30 Storage In Cloudstack And The Storage Plugin Architecture(Mike Tutkowski,
SolidFire)
Break
14:45-15:45 Cloudstack Networking: Technical Deep-Dive (Geoff Higginbottom,
ShapeBlue)
15:45 – 16:30 Cloudstack Usage & Cost Management With Amysta (Pierre Vacherand,
Amysta)
16:30 -17:00 Implementing a Control Segment into the Cloudstack Networking Model –
Challenges and Lessons Learned. (Len Bellemore, Control Circle)
17:00 onwards Drinks in the pub
Agenda

3. Collaborative environment for:
all things CloudStack/ CloudPlatform
Related tech: CloudPortal BM, CloudBridge, ecosystem
products, hypervisors, storage, etc
Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
Case studies & ideas
To showcase complementary technologies
To give a strong voice for feedback to vendor/community
No pitching !
The aims of this group

4. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cloudstack-European-
User-Group-4294158
http://cloudstack.apache.org/contribute.html
#cloudstack
Get involved

5. Graduation
Apache CloudStack is now a top level Apache project
4.1 Release
Significant Architectural Improvements
20 new features, 24 “improvements”, 155 bug fixes
Helped several 2.x users be able to upgrade to 4.1
Ever growing contributor community….
Apache News…..

6. Community continues
to grow
Meet-ups getting
bigger
722 active
contributors, 272
organisations
New committers
Still a Perception
problem
Apache News…..

7. Growing community

8. CloudStack Collab
23-25 June,
Santa Clara
C.400
attendees
Developers,
Vendors,
integrators,
customers…..

9. 272
275 280
Production Clouds on CloudStack

10. CloudStack Customers

11. CloudStack Customers 2.0

12. 12
CloudStack Customers 3.0

13. Collab Europe
Amsterdam
November 20-22, 2013

14. Cloudportal BM 2.0 (Danube) released
ITaaS
Seems to be a decoupling from CloudStack / platform
2.1 Release due soon
Syncing release cycles with Apache
Citrix News -

15. Next up
Mike Tutkowski, SolidFire
Storage In Cloudstack And
The Storage Plugin
Architecture
Next speaker..

16. Thanks for coming & thanks to speakers
Please give feedback – essential
Comments on governance going forwards
Request for speakers
Look out for news on Collab Europe
Please continue to contribute to the LinkedIn group
Get involved in Apache project
Next meeting planned for September
Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com @shapeblue
Wrap Up