1. European CloudStack User Group
Welcome - 26 June 2014
Giles Sirett
Group Chairman
giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue

2. CEO of ShapeBlue
Involved in Cloudstack for 3+ years
PMC member & Committer Apache CloudStack
Chairman of this group
#WhoAmI ?

3. Thanks to todays sponsors

4.  Welcome, introduction & CloudStack news roundup – Giles Sirett, ShapeBlue
 Using a cloudstack powered public cloud- Antoine Coetsier, Exoscale
 Designing a production ready CloudStack Cloud - Geoff Higginbottom, ShapeBlue
 BREAK
 Running Desktop Workloads on CloudStack with Citrix XenDesktop – Donal Lafferty, Citrix
 Clocker - Creating a Docker Cloud with Apache Brooklyn - Andrew Kennedy and Sam Corbett ,
Cloudsoft
 Providing load balancing as a service by provisioning on-demand highly available load balancer pairs
per tenant – can it work for CloudStack? - Samuel Bercovici
 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Agenda

5.  Collaborative environment for:
 all things CloudStack/ CloudPlatform
 Related tech: 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 Apache developer
community
 No pitching !
The aims of this group

6.  4.3.1 release in about 2 weeks
 Hard work ongoing on 4.4.0
 RC to be cut on Friday (tomorrow)
 Cloudmonkey 5.1.0 released May 16
CloudStack News…

7.  Over 60 CloudStack sessions
 Tutorials & Bootcamp training
 Co-located with ApacheCon
CCCNA14 - Denver

8.  19-22 November,Budapest
 Now planning schedule
 Space for 60 talks
 Consider submitting
 Travel funding available
CCCEU14

9.  Community continues
to grow
 Meet-ups getting
bigger
 200+ active
contributors, 7o+
organisations
 Now 72 86 96
committers
CloudStack News…..

10. Two new
committers
in this room
CloudStack News…..

11. We still have an awareness problem

12.  Great software
 Great Community
 Big install base
 So, what’s the problem ?
So, whats the problem?

13. Just a reminder on the real world
20132012

14. And another….

15. CloudStack Users

16. CloudStack Users 2.0

17. 17
CloudStack Users 3.0

18.  Support the community
 Spread the word!
 Align your business with the technology – tell the world!
 Help your company realise the benefits of community
involvement
 Sponsor events
 Volunteers always welcome at Apache
So, what can we do to help?

19.  Let the community help
you by joining a mailing
list
 Help
 Be helped
 Get social
 #cloudstackworks
Specific calls to action

20.  Does the world know
your org runs Cloudstack ?
 Make sure they’re public
about their use
 Push for a case study
 Explain the benefits
 Be proud of ACS (they are
in Japan)
Specific calls to action

21. Antoine Coetsier
Exoscale
Using a cloudstack
powered public cloud
Next speaker..