This panel discussion centres on Paul Bankert, Founder at Cyso Group, as he shares real-world experiences evaluating and operating open-source cloud platforms. The discussion explores the challenges of OpenStack adoption at scale, including operational complexity, community dynamics, and long-term maintainability, and contrasts these with CloudStack’s simpler architecture and operational model. Paul shares hands-on insights into proof-of-concept deployments, networking automation, multi-tenant and multi-site architectures, and the role of community-driven feature development. The discussion offers a candid look at how cloud builders assess platform choices, manage migrations, and balance innovation, stability, and scalability when selecting infrastructure technologies for the long term.
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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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Registration is now open for #CloudStackCollab 2026, taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 18 – 20. Register early and save €130 with the Super Early Bird ticket.
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