That’s a wrap for #CloudStackCollab 2025! A big thank you to all our community members for contributing, collaborating, and coming together in Milan this year. Your energy and commitment continues to drive the evolution of the #CloudStack project.

As #CloudStackCollab wraps up, join us for the Panel Discussion and Closing: Building Sustainable IT with Open-source and the Next Decade of #CloudStack. A forward-looking conversation on CloudStack’s future and sustainable IT strategies.

In the Mercurio Room, @ussignalcom’s Alex Dietrich shares how organisations can move from closed-source to open source, using their shift to #CloudStack as the example. He highlights how teams can adjust their mindset and work effectively within the open-source support model.

Simon Weller from UDT explains how cloud providers can break out of the commodity trap by using #CloudStack’s flexibility to differentiate beyond price. He shows how innovation in service delivery and support helps providers help shift from a simple vendor to strategic partner.

In the Venere Room, @Kiranchavala from @ShapeBlue is showing how to build a full #CloudStack monitoring solution using the Grafana stack. Expect Prometheus scraping, building Grafana dashboards, capacity and failure alerts, and more!

In the Mercurio Room, Pearl Dsilva from @ShapeBlue walks through new #CloudStack Kubernetes Service enhancements since 4.21, including template registration, per-node template and offering selection, dedicated etcd nodes, adding external nodes and CNI/CSI integration!

The next session in the Venere room is underway! Christian Reichert from @scsynergy is walking attendees through a real-world migration of production-grade Kubernetes workloads from Microsoft Azure to an Apache #CloudStack-based cloud infrastructure.

In the Mercurio Room, David Humes of @ussignalcom and Ruben Renders of @Commvault present Image-Based Backups with #CloudStack APIs, showing how US Signal and Commvault are bringing native backup and recovery directly into #CloudStack.

On stage in the Venere Room is @ShapeBlue Software Engineer, @visheshj92, who is exploring how #CloudStack 4.21 natively orchestrates GPU workloads on KVM, from device discovery and capability classification to host setup and GPU-backed offerings, plus a full end-to-end demo.

Joining us on Zoom: Saurabh Rapatwar, CEO of @StackConsole, with AI Meets #CloudStack. Showcasing StackAI, an AI assistant that turns natural language into CloudStack actions. It streamlines VM & network setup, reduces support needs and makes CloudStack more intuitive for users.

A number of #CloudStackCollab attendees are taking the Apache CloudStack® Certification by @ShapeBlue exam!

Cloud Architect at @ShapeBlue, Alexandre Mattioli, is on stage in the Venere Room covering how to build complex, scalable #CloudStack networks with IPv6 and BGP. Learn how end users can create publicly routable networks with no operator intervention!

Taking place in the Nettuno Room is @LINBIT's Rene Peinthor's workshop: Setup LINSTOR SDS and #CloudStack. This workshop will guide attendees through installing LINSTOR in HA mode, configuring #CloudStack and running live migration and failover tests.

Taking place in the Venere room, CTO at @YottaInfra, @KBShivKumar presenting: Building India’s Sovereign Hyperscale Cloud with the #CloudStack Ecosystem. #CloudStackCollab

Live in the Mercurio Room: Stefan Schmitt from @IBM on #CloudStack on LinuxONE. He explains what LinuxONE is, how IBM’s mission-critical expertise meets Linux openness, and what the team achieved by integrating it with CloudStack, plus the benefits this combination delivers.

Up next in the Venere Room: Boyan Krosnov from @StorPool on running 2800 VMs on just 5 servers. A deep dive into hyperconverged #CloudStack plus StorPool, showing how a full cloud can run on a minimal footprint with high performance and far less complexity.

Now in the Nettuno Room: DEMO on Netris integration with CloudStack from @CysoCloud. See how Netris automates networking and routing, why Cyso adopted it, a live CloudStack zone demo, and what’s coming next!

Taking place in the Mercurio Room: @bsstoyanov from @ShapeBlue, presenting How Scalable is #CloudStack? He'll explore CloudStack’s real and expected scalability limits, key design choices for growth, and examples of organisations operating CloudStack at massive scale.

Now in the Mercurio Room: @nvazquezuy, CloudStack VP and Lead Engineer at ShapeBlue, on VMware to KVM Migration Tooling. He’s covering the latest updates, key improvements since the initial version, and what’s next for operators migrating workloads.

First up in the Venere Room for Day 3 is David Humes from @ussignalcom! Hear real lessons from launching an enterprise cloud, how customers are seeing value today, and what’s coming next, including: VDI, on-prem and high-performance compute.