help me help you from cloudstack collab
DESCRIPTION
I recently joined Citrix and am now leading a team that includes a large number of CloudStack commitors and contributors. I have overall product development responsibility for Citrix's CloudPlatform product -- which is Powered by Apache CloudStack. As such, I'm interested in ensuring the best possible working relationship between Citrix and the Apache CloudStack community as a whole. In this session, I'll describe Citrix's goals in working with the community and will lead an interactive feedback session on how you (the attendees) think Citrix can best interact with the community so that we can ensure that everyone meets their goals.TRANSCRIPT
VP, Cloud Engineering at Citrix
November 21st, 2013
Help Me Help YouHow Should Citrix Best Work with CloudStack?
Steve Wilson - @virtualsteve
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Agenda
• A little bit about my background
• What does Citrix really do?
• Why the heck is Citrix so committed to CloudStack?
• About the CloudPlatform Team
• Citrix and Apache
Who is this Steve guy anyway?Just so you know who you’re working with
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Early Work Years
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Java, Java, Java
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Utility Computing, Virtualization & Cloud
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Guitar
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Martial Arts
Why is Citrix Here?
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Citrix Enables Mobile Work Styles
http://youtu.be/X2OQehB7kHs
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CloudPlatforms
CloudNetworking
DataSharing
SocialCollaboration
MobilePlatforms
DesktopVirtualizationCloud solutions to enable mobile workstyles
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Mobile &Desktop
55%
21% 24%
Network& Cloud
Collaboration& Data
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What Does CloudPlatform do for Citrix?
• Standalone Businessᵒ Service Providersᵒ Enterprisesᵒ Providing the back-end to the mobile workforce
• Cloudifying the Desktopᵒ Better deployments for in-house XenApp/XenDesktop customersᵒ Enabling public clouds to deliver on-demand desktops
• Driving into new markets (e.g. co-working with NetScaler team)
• Increasingly used by our in-house SaaS division
About the CloudPlatform Team
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Santa Clara
HyderabadBangalore
• Architects• Alex• Chiradeep• Darren
Citrix and ApacheDiscussion
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Citrix as a Community Member
• What are we doing well?
• What should we be doing differently?
• Can we be more transparent with our needs to the community?
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Release Planning and Timing
• Citrix has a large, commercial dependency on CloudStack
• We want to stay in sync with the community, but have other forces driving us as well
• Suggestions for how we best align CloudStack and CloudPlatform?
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Cloudstack.next
• What are your priorities?
• What does it mean to you?
• How do we plan for it?
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My Areas of Interest for Cloudstack.next
• Hackability!!!
• Easy maintenance
• Massive Scale
• Adopting the latest cloud technologies
Work better. Live better.