Hi Giles, To add to this , a huge apache event/hackathon is being organized in Bangalore for the very first time in the last week of march and since it's an apache event , there would be talks/hands on sessions on quite a number of apache projects with a major focus towards CloudStack . I just got in touch with Nick from Apache who's flying to Bangalore and we'll be helping him in conducting this huge event. Hopefully , CloudStack will gain a lot more popularity .
And a big thanks to you for delivering an awesome session here in Bangalore . This has attracted so many CloudStack enthusiasts here with almost 200 people having attended your talk live and over the webinar. Regards, Pranav From: Giles Sirett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Cloudstack marketing Hi marketing folks First of all, Ilya, I think this is a fantastic initiative. Cloudstack is great technology, its main weakness to date has been poor perception in the market: as a second rate player to Openstack. The main issue I see is that Rackspace, et al *openly* back Openstack whereas Citrix back CS from a distance (I wont criticise Citrix for this, they have been great in their donation and MASSIVE contribution to date) . Therefore, we don't have a big name vendor assocated with the project At ShapeBlue, we have done a lot over the last year to help *try* and change that perception, but theres still lots more to do. I'm about to go on vacation for a week, so haven't really got time to start to work up ideas and tell you how I (we) can contribute to this effort, but we certainly will. Kind Regards Giles Giles Sirett CEO & Managing Consultant (UK) [cid:[email protected]] D: +44 20 3603 0541 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +44 796 111 2055 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com/> | Twitter:@shapeBlue<https://twitter.com/#!/shapeblue> ShapeBlue Ltd, 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London, WC2N 4HS, UK ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue's expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
