Thank you, Giles; hello, everyone. We might be making this a "Project press release" vs. "ASF Project Milestone" announcement. Minor difference, primarily of the voice as well as testimonials (you can include more Committers, vs. corporate users if needed).
The Gartner pointer is too old to be impressive at this stage. Any idea of a more recent analyst highlight? What's your intended timeframe for this? Best, Sally - - - Vice President Marketing & Publicity Vice President Sponsor Relations The Apache Software Foundation Tel +1 617 921 8656 | s...@apache.org On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, at 09:53, Giles Sirett wrote: > Hi Daan > [Sally in CC by way of a heads-up that this is coming] > > Good start. I've updated below to keep more inline with previous > release announcements and also added a summary of the 4.15 major > enhancements > > It would be good if we can get a couple of quotes from: > a) release Manager (you) > b) VP - Sven > c) some users - I've copied Wido and Si as theyre usually an easy > touch for a quote 😊 > > Anybody happy to send in a quote, reply to this thread and I'll edit it > into the release > > = ========= [start]======== > > The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® CloudStack® v 4.15 > Mature Open Source Enterprise Cloud platform powers billions of dollars > in transactions for the world's largest Cloud providers, Fortune 5 > multinationals, educational institutions, and more. > > The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, > stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and > initiatives, announced today Apache® CloudStack® 4.15, the latest > version of the mature, turnkey enterprise Cloud orchestration platform. > > Apache CloudStack is the proven, highly scalable IaaS platform of > choice to rapidly and easily create private, public, and hybrid Cloud > environments: it "just works". Apache CloudStack includes the entire > "stack" of features in an IaaS cloud: compute orchestration, > Network-as-a-Service, user and account management, full and open native > API, resource accounting, and a first-class user interface. > > [Insert quote from VP/User/etc) > > The new 4.15 release ships with over 200 new features, improvements and > bug fixes including: > > -A new, modern user interface at general availability > -Secondary storage Management tools > -vSphere advanced capabilities to support VMware storage policies, > vSAN, VMFS6, etc > -"deploy-as-is" templates for deploying virtual appliances in > CloudStack clouds > -Roles based users in projects > -Dynamic roles enhancements for more granular RBAC > -Configure root disk via service offering > -noVNC console for performance improvements to VM console access > -Redfish support for out of band management > Support for Centos 8, Ubuntu 20.4, XCP-ng 8.1 and MySQL 8 > -Boot into hardware setup > > > [another nice quote from somebody] > > # Documentation > The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes > at > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html > The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from > previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/upgrading/index.html > The official installation, administration and API documentation for > each of the releases are available on our documentation page: > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/ > > # Downloads > The official source code for the 4.15.0.0 release can be downloaded > from our downloads page: > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html > > In addition to the official source code release, individual > contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the > Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at: > http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/ > http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ > http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/ > > Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, > including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. > Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud > Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service > provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A > list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at > http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html > > ======[ends]=== ==================== > > Kind regards > Giles > > giles.sir...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 3 London Bridge Street, 3rd floor, News Building, London SE1 9SGUK > @shapeblue > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Daan Hoogland <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> > Sent: 11 January 2021 13:23 > To: Apache CloudStack Marketing <marketing@cloudstack.apache.org>; dev > <d...@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: draft [ANNOUNCE]ment version 4.15 [DISCUSS] > > As a draft announcement and discussion item the text for an > announcement mail below. Note that the features list is far from > complete and any suggestions on that will be incorporated. > > > *The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache**®** CloudStack**®** v4.15* > > The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release of > Apache CloudStack v4.15. Apache CloudStack 4.15 is a 4.15 LTS release > which contains over 250 new features, enhancements and fixes since > 4.14, such as > - advanced capabilities for Vmware, > - a UI overhaul, > - DB engine support for mysql 8. > > Highlights include: > > - Supporting advanced storage configuration for VMware > - VMware 7 support > - New UI > > # Documentation > The full list of new features can be found in the project release notes > at > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/releasenotes/changes.html > The CloudStack documentation includes upgrade instructions from > previous versions of Apache CloudStack, and can be found at: > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/4.15.0.0/upgrading/index.html > The official installation, administration and API documentation for > each of the releases are available on our documentation page: > http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/ > > # Downloads > The official source code for the 4.15.0.0 release can be downloaded > from our downloads page: > http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html > > In addition to the official source code release, individual > contributors have also made convenience binaries available on the > Apache CloudStack download page, and can be found at: > http://download.cloudstack.org/ubuntu/dists/ > http://download.cloudstack.org/centos/7/ > http://www.shapeblue.com/packages/ > > Apache CloudStack powers numerous elastic Cloud computing services, > including solutions that have ranked as Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders. > Highlighted in the Forrester Q4 2017 Enterprise Open Source Cloud > Adoption report, Apache CloudStack "sits beneath hundreds of service > provider clouds", including Fortune 5 multinational corporations. A > list of known Apache CloudStack users are available at > http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html > > -- > Daan >
