A few newsletter editions ago, I wrote about the trend of using Kubernetes clusters for managing VMs and its original purpose of orchestrating containers. The commercial players’ products are OpenShift virtualization, SUSE Virtualization (formerly Harvester), alauda.io, Ænix’s Cozystack, and potentially more I am unaware of.
I can now share that LINBIT SDS has become a formally certified partner product compatible with SUSE Virtualization. We received the news on May 6th. However, I don’t know if SUSE’s Partner Certification & Solutions Catalog already shows the news as of today.
This week, we held the Apache CloudStack European User Group 2025 event with ShapeBlue in Vienna. While it is the smaller-scale event of the CloudStack community, the presentations clearly show that Apache CloudStack won the race for the mid-size public cloud providers market segment.
Additionally, from LINBIT’s side, I can add that we are attracting cloud builders with our LINBIT Apache CloudStack HCI Appliance, and we are a bit under pressure to get day-2 tasks complete, like expanding or shrinking an already running cloud automated to the point that it is a simple click of a button in the management GUI.
Meanwhile, people on social media continue to be astonished that Broadcom is unfriendly to former VMware customers. Well, let me put it this way: the market has plenty of alternative offerings. Just this week, we updated a blog post with new information about open source VMware alternatives that integrate with our storage solutions, which I recommend as a good read.
I will conclude this edition with the latest software update. Since I last wrote, we have released a new version of the LINSTOR GUI v1.9.5.
