Apache CloudStack

In a market where Cloud offerings are increasingly commoditized, providers running on powerful platforms like Apache CloudStack have a unique opportunity to differentiate beyond price. The path to durable growth lies in leveraging CloudStack’s flexibility to elevate your role from a simple provider to a strategic partner. Simon Weller's #CloudStackCollab session details how to achieve this transformation through deliberate innovation in your service delivery and customer support models. https://lnkd.in/gcPY_zs8

Watch Lead Software Engineer at ShapeBlue, Nicolas Vazquez's #CloudStackCollab session "VMware to KVM Migration Tooling in CloudStack"! Nicolas walks through the latest state of the VMware to KVM migration tool, highlighting the major improvements made since the initial version, and shares what’s coming next for operators looking to move workloads. https://lnkd.in/gMDwi8VK

Watch LINBIT CEO, Philipp Reisner's #CloudStackCollab session! In this session, Philipp provides a concise introduction and overview of LINSTOR and DRBD, explaining how they offer highly available block storage to VMs in CloudStack clusters. From there, Philipp presents the recently introduced features and improvements of LINSTOR and DRBD, including a discussion of the rationale behind the changes and the next items on the project’s roadmap. https://lnkd.in/gp8k8_q5

The VNF appliance, introduced in Apache CloudStack 4.19, has been used by several CloudStack users as an alternative to the CloudStack Virtual Router. Wei ZHOU's #CloudStackCollab talk provides an overview of VNF appliances and showcases some real-world use cases. It also introduces ongoing work on the VNF provider framework, which offers much better integration with VNF appliances. Topics includes technical details, the built-in VNF provider, and guidance on how to develop custom VNF providers. Watch Wei's session! https://lnkd.in/eBpcPfei

Watch proIO GmbH, Alexander Lapp's #CloudStackCollab session! Alex explores how the internet’s decentralized roots gave way to dependence on a handful of dominant platforms. He unpacks the risks of vendor lock-in, geopolitical pressure, and AI-driven cultural influence and shows how open-source tools like CloudStack enable organisations to regain true control over their data and infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/ga9yt-KU

Experience the power of AI-driven ChatOps tailored for Apache CloudStack with Yotta Data Services Private Limited's vivek kumar! Watch this #CloudStackCollab session to see how conversational AI can streamline your operations and accelerate problem resolution. This modular Python-based chatbot, powered by OpenAI, enables users to ask natural language questions that translate into real-time MySQL queries, fetch logs from Elasticsearch, and deliver actionable insights, all through an intuitive web-based interface. https://lnkd.in/gHkmBSQK

Watch DIMSI's Grégoire Lamodière and Joffrey Luangsaysana's #CloudStackCollab session! This session offers a comprehensive business overview of migrating from VMware to CloudStack, examining impacts on services, cost management, and IT strategy to help organizations maximize their cloud investments. https://lnkd.in/gezSCDFE

Watch US Signal's, Daven Winans's #CloudStackCollab session! This session explores how infrastructure is evolving to support the growing demand for AI, large language models, and inference workloads. Daven walk sthrough real-world performance metrics comparing CPU-only vs GPU-accelerated workloads and x86 vs Arm64 platforms. He also covers the role of open-source hypervisors, GPU virtualization, time slicing, and containerized workloads on high-core hosts — and how these approaches help improve efficiency and reduce stranded resources. https://lnkd.in/gaDNJrsM

Happy New Year from the Apache CloudStack community! Thank you to everyone who contributed, deployed, tested and supported CloudStack over the past year. From major releases to our biggest #CloudStackCollab to date, 2025 showed the power of open-source!

CDLAN adopted CloudStack to build a truly sovereign cloud, distributed across its data centers in Milan and Rome, with a multi-zone architecture and multi-hypervisor support (KVM and VMware). Thanks to their pay-per-use model, their customers and partners can access scalable resources with no upfront costs, while benefiting from hybrid integration and simplified management. In this talk, Brian Turnbow and Marco Ziglioli share how this resilient infrastructure has enabled CDLAN and its partners to accelerate the adoption of cloud services in the Italian Market. https://lnkd.in/gxQu2GwW