Geoff Higginbottom is the CTO of ShapeBlue and a CloudStack committer. He has experience designing and building clouds based on Apache CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform. The agenda includes presentations on CloudStack news, XenServer HA, monitoring CloudStack, redundant virtual private clouds, CloudStack 4.5 features, and contributing to CloudStack. There will also be discussions on collaborating in the CloudStack community and showcasing complementary technologies.

1. CloudStack European User Group
12 February 2015
Geoff Higginbottom
CTO ShapeBlue
geoff.higginbottom@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @CloudStackGuru

2.  Cloud Architect & ShapeBlue CTO
 Specialise in….
 Designing & Building Clouds based on Apache CloudStack / Citrix CloudPlatform
 Developing CloudStack training
 Blogging and sharing CloudStack knowledge
 Involved with CloudStack before donation to Apache
 Designed Clouds for Cloudera, Everyware, SunGard, Ascenty, BskyB, Trader
Media, M5 Hosting, Team Cymru, Interoute, University of Pennsylvania.…
 CloudStack Committer
Who Am I?

3. Thanks to today’s sponsors

4.  Thanks to David Williams (Interoute) for improving
blog article aimed at helping new users build a
cloudstack test environment
http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack/virtualbox-test-env/
Community Member Thanks

5.  CloudStack news round-up – Geoff Higginbottom, ShapeBlue (13:40-14:00)
 XenServer HA - Geoff Higginbottom, ShapeBlue (14:00-14:30)
 Monitoring CloudStack – Richard Chart, ScienceLogic (14:30-15:00)
 BREAK 15:00-15:30
 Redundant Virtual Private Clouds – Wilder Rodrigues, Schuberg Philis (15:30-16:00)
 CloudStack 4.5 What’s New – Paul Angus, ShapeBlue (16:00-16:30)
 So you think you can contribute? – Daan Hoogland, Schuberg Philis (16:30-17:00)
 17:00 onwards - drink in pub for questions !
Agenda

6.  Collaborative environment for:
 all things CloudStack
 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

7.  CCCEU14
 19-22 November - Budapest
 www.cloudstackcollab.org
 Presentation Videos
 https://www.youtube.com/pla
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CloudStack News…

16.  Community
CloudStack News…

17. CloudStack News…

18. CloudStack News…

19.  New conference format – multiple 1 day events
 CloudStack Days Austin 2015 (April 16th)
 CloudStack Days Tokyo 2015 (June 2nd)
 CloudStack Days Seattle 2015 (August 20th)
 CloudStack Days Budapest 2015 (October 1st)
 CloudStack Days Dublin 2015 (October 8th)
CloudStack News…

20.  CloudStack Day Brazil – 300 Registrants
 2:00 pm Opening presented by Carlos Ruggiero
 2:15pm 2:15 pm Apache CloudStack, the best kept secret in the cloud presented by Giles Sirett
 2:45pm 2:45 pm Project Cloud USP presented by Cyrano Rizzo
 3:15pm 3:15 pm Introduction to Apache CloudStack networks presented by Marcelo Lima
 4:15pm 4:15 pm Cloud Computing Panel presented by Fernando Carolo , Rafael Peregrino da
Silva , Marco Sinhoreli , Giles Sirett , Cyrano Rizzo and Anchises Moraes
 5:00pm 5:00 pm PaaS Tsuru presented by Andrews Medina
 5:30pm 5:30 pm Starting the journey to the Cloud? presented by Ari Neto
 6:00pm 6:00 pm Closure presented by Marco Sinhoreli
CloudStack News…

21.  4.5.0 Release
 Small number of new features
 LOTS of Improvements and Bug Fixes
 XenServer 6.5 Released
 Significant Performance Improvements
CloudStack News…

22.  Nuage Networks’ China Deal Hinged on CloudStack
 XenApp / XenDesktop can now be deployed on CloudStack
https://www.cupfighter.net/2014/12/implementing-xenapp-7-
6-on-apache-cloudstack-4-3
 Super small testing VM template ‘Macchinina’ (Nux)
https://github.com/NuxRo/macchinina
CloudStack News…

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

24.  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

25.  XenServer HA - Geoff Higginbottom, ShapeBlue
Next Speaker…

26. CloudStack Day Brazil Live Feed
Then the Pub…
Just for fun