+1, hope we can get more concerted effort in talking about Cloudstack! BTW, few users do blog consistently… but there are lot more users, who can share their experience/case studies! From: Tim Mackey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 6:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
+100 to skip the hype. I've always believed touting "how we compare" is disingenuous to adopters. It assumes we aspire to be like someone else. I feel if we focus on core strengths (the what) and highlighting what people have solved by using us (the why), then people will start to draw their own comparisons. As someone who's been the face of a product the Gartner folks deem "niche" (XenServer in case readers aren't familiar) for some years, I'm happy with focusing on the niche and ensuring those who'e adopted XenServer are successful as a result of that choice. Their advocacy is worth its weight in gold, and I rather like that Apache CloudStack events have users talking openly about their successes. I feel we need to find ways to increase the reach of those user messages. -tim On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Chip Childers <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: +1 to what both Giles and Ian are saying. Skip the hype. Focus on real value being seen by users. Educate, don't confuse. On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Ian Rae <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Absolutely Giles. With the Citrix exit from the community it is time for the large users and commercial supporters to reboot the effort to build an Apache CloudStack related marketing alliance. This can be done as a lean and agile effort, and is less about having a hype machine and more about sharing information with the world on key use cases, success stories, etc…. That CloudStack is the dark matter of the open source cloud computing world is of benefit to none. I realize most analysts and certainly much of the OpenStack community would prefer Apache CloudStack to remain in obscurity but in the real world it has sustainable and defensible value for use cases that OpenStack, and other vendor driven projects are unable to effectively address. CloudOps has always believed the market is not an either/or proposition. We have a responsibility to make the capabilities and key use cases widely known, especially since the Apache Foundation cannot do it. We need to work on this now. Ian On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Giles Sirett <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ilya - I agree 100% - this is a really good testament to the quality of our software and the effort by this community Although it gauls me slightly to have to caveat everything with "despite the marketing" and "despite the committer base" We here all know that Cloudstack is the "invisible man" in this space. We all know its in widespread adoption but it continues to not get the attention of AN Other project This can be changed, but we are a user led community. It can be changed by our largescale users coming out and showing their public support for this project. 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