• First Community Developed Software Release under Apache • CloudStack leadership beyond Citrix - Chip Childers (Sunguard), Jon Kinsella (Tier 3), Wido den Hollander (PCExtreme), Hugo Trippaers (Schuberg Philis) • Thriving ecosystem of contributions and integrations: • Juniper • Nicira/VMware • Basho/Riak • Ceph/Inktank • Puppet/PuppetLabs • Many, many more
• Inter-VLAN Routing (VPC) • Site-to-Site VPN • Local Storage Support for Data Volumes • Virtual Resource Tagging • Secure Console Access on XenServer • Ability to create a VM without immediately starting it (via API) • Upload an Existing Volume to a Virtual Machine • Dedicated High-Availability Hosts • Integrated Support for Amazon Web Services API (formerly a separate package) • AWS API Extensions to include Tagging • Support for Nicira NVP (L2) • Ceph RBD Support for KVM • Support for Caringo as Secondary Storage • KVM Hypervisor support upgraded to work with Ubuntu 12.04 and RHEL 6.3
Cloud Workloads Traditional Workload Reliable hardware, backup entire cloud, and restore for users when failure happens Distributed Workload Tell users to expect failure. Users to build apps that can withstand infrastructure failure Both types of workloads must run reliably in the cloud