Launching a new cloud platform is never just about technology – it’s about solving real customer challenges. In this session, US Signal’s VP of Product Development, David Humes, shares the journey of building OpenCloud, a high-performance, enterprise-ready platform powered by Apache CloudStack.
Attendees hear the lessons learned from design to launch, how customer feedback shaped key features, and the tangible business outcomes customers are experiencing today. The session also provides a forward-looking view into the next wave of innovations, designed to give enterprises and service providers more flexibility, resiliency, and choice in an evolving landscape.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1. Learn from real-world experience – Understand the challenges and best practices US Signal faced in launching OpenCloud on Apache CloudStack, like customer migrations, data protection, product documentation, and more.
2. See customer value in action – Explore how OpenCloud is helping enterprises and MSPs solve issues like cost certainty, scalability, and application performance.
3. Gain a preview of what’s next – Get insight into the roadmap and how upcoming features will continue to address evolving customer needs, such the need for virtual desktops, on-premise deployments, high performance processing for LLMS and SLMs, and more.
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The CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2025 took place in November 19-21 in Milan, Italy, bringing together CloudStack users, developers, and operators from 40+ countries. This annual, in-person event provided a unique opportunity for the global CloudStack community to connect, collaborate, and help shape the future of the open-source platform.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our sponsors for their support in making this event possible: ShapeBlue, US Signal, LINBIT, StorPool, CYSO Cloud, DIMSI, CDLAN, Your.Online, Ampere, Stack Console, Yotta, proIO and weSystems.
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