i partially agree with the premise it could be mutually beneficial. Some companies view cloudstack as their competitive advantage, and guard that info religiously.
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Clayton Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a suggestion to this; having been part of such an exercise. What > about a jointly published case study with CS/CP customers/users who are > willing to share. Since it involves good press for both companies such a > thing is mutually beneficial. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathias Mullins [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 9:13 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Peder Ulander > Subject: Re: CloudPlatform/CloudStack Customers and Marketing > > Ilya, > > I think to take that one step further, we do have an official "public" > list of customers that have signed off on letting us use their name in > marketing, presentations, etcŠ What we probably need to find out is how > far can we take that with ACS. Can those names be published at an ACS > level as well since the official title of CCP is CloudPlatform powered by > Apache CloudStack. > > I'm copying in Peder Ulander in here to see if maybe he can help with some > clarification. If that list can be brought to bear for the good of both > Citrix customers using Apache CloudStack technology then maybe there is a > win-win without showing any favoritism, more of a use case. > > Mark / Karen - I know you are both active on this list, if you have any > advice that would be helpful too. > > Thanks > Matt Mullins > CloudPlatform Implementation Engineer > Worldwide Cloud Services Citrix System, Inc. > +1 (407) 920-1107 Office/Cell Phone > [email protected] > > > > > > > On 5/18/13 6:04 PM, "Kelly Hair" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Agree with Joe. > > > >As an account rep @ Citrix developing CloudPlatform for the NE US (PA -> > >DE -> ME), I will do everything I can to ensure we can publish customer > >names with their consent. However, there's a number of enterprises that > >will never allow this to occur. It's just they way their legal > >departments work.. > > > > > >While it may be frustrating at times, the fact remains that Apache > >CloudStack, and commercial variants like Citrix CloudPlatform, is user > >driven rather than a marketing focus like other options in the market. > > > > > >I can share that there's 150+ paying CloudPlatform customer. In 2011, > >around 80% of new customers were Service Providers. In 2012, this number > >was evenly split between SPs & enterprises. The enterprise number & ratio > >will grow this year especially in mature markets. This is not only > >because the SP market is saturated but also because enterprises are > >investing more in building private clouds. In developing markets, SPs > >building clouds are mostly focused on either a CloudStack or OpenStack > >based solution. > > > >Getting back to customers - as you could imagine, we have a slide that > >lists ~ 30 customers we can talk about but I would prefer to defer to some > >colleagues inside Citrix to bless the publishing of these names. A slide > >presented to a prospect is very different than publicly posting :) > > > > > >Best, > >Kelly > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On 5/18/13 3:59 PM, "Joe Brockmeier" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >>On Fri, May 17, 2013, at 03:06 PM, Musayev, Ilya wrote: > >>> What is the take on publishing names of CCP customers? I continuously > >>> learning about more CloudStack/CloudPlatform customers that are huge in > >>> size - but it hurts our marketing strategy as names don't get > >>>published. > >>> > >>> Perhaps I can start un-official CS/CP customer list on personal blogs > >>> based on public information (like job descriptions posted online). > >>> > >>> Thoughts? > >> > >>So, unless a company has specifically signed-off on having their name > >>published, I think it's probably not a good idea to put it out there > >>without their blessing. That can have a backlash. > >> > >>Having a "NASCAR" page of organizations that do use and are willing to > >>talk about their use of CloudStack would be a good thing. I just don't > >>want to incur any ill-will on the part of users who don't want to be > >>public, for whatever reason. > >> > >>Best, > >> > >>jzb > >>-- > >>Joe Brockmeier > >>[email protected] > >>Twitter: @jzb > >>http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ > > > >
