Hi all I attended the Cloud World Forum event in Johannesburg on Tue & Wed this week, and wanted to highlight a couple of things.
Firstly, the audience here is extremely receptive to the concept of IaaS (we're behind many other markets), the local telcos and service providers were very well represented and the FOSS message is understood and generally accepted. Concern is that amongst all the vendor messages, the running theme was OpenStack is the only orchestration solution in town, in fact the only mention of CloudStack was a question from me to which the reply was that CloudStack is confined and not viable. Sub saharan Africa is most definitely ready to start mass build out, and at this early stage, while the market is 'tuned in' and receptive I feel there must be a presence and a voice for ACS or the battle will be lost before it begins. I am building the CloudStack user community in South Africa with our first user group meeting today in Cape Town, but feel we need: 1. A presence at the bigger events in SA - (AfricaCom is the next, November 11-13th) Can we consider a stand at this event? Has the project got any budget to do things like this ? 2. A high profile African case study (I am working on this!) but do we know of any right now? There are a number of users attending this evening that I will be speaking to about raising their profile, but would be good to be able to namecheck other sub saharan users we know of. Any advice, greatly appreciated! Thanks Dan Crowe Managing Consultant, South Africa [Description: Mail Logo Bottom Align] OFFICE: +27 (0) 21 527 0091 M: +27 (0) 7977 04085 D<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.shapeblue.com<http://www.shapeblue.com/> | Twitter:@shapeBlue<https://twitter.com/#!/shapeblue> ShapeBlue SA (Pty) Ltd, Unit 209 Pinehurst, Somerset Links Office Park, De Beers Avenue, Somerset West, Cape Town 7130 Find out more about ShapeBlue and our range of CloudStack related services IaaS Cloud Design & Build<http://shapeblue.com/iaas-cloud-design-and-build//> CSForge - rapid IaaS deployment framework<http://shapeblue.com/csforge/> CloudStack Consulting<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-consultancy/> CloudStack Infrastructure Support<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-infrastructure-support/> CloudStack Bootcamp Training Courses<http://shapeblue.com/cloudstack-training/> 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 or related companies. 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. ShapeBlue Services India LLP is a company incorporated in India and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. Shape Blue Brasil Consultoria Ltda is a company incorporated in Brasil and is operated under license from Shape Blue Ltd. ShapeBlue is a registered trademark.
