Arturo Suarez

4 posts

Product Strategy - BootStack & Training Product Manager

I am the BootStack and Training Product Manager for Canonical. The managed hosted (or on-prem) cloud service offered by the leading OpenStack OS company. The service includes a unique combination of long pursued features within the industry: SLA driven, optional cloud control transfer and reasonable commitment period. We manage your cloud as if it was our own, literally. After pitching OpenStack to several hundreds of companies, I do believe this unique combination constitutes the easiest way to enjoy the benefits of OpenStack without shifting a large quantity of resources from other, probably more relevant, tasks. I have been selling, talking and living OpenStack since its creation in 2010. That very same year, I co-founded an OpenStack native company that made the first OpenStack Distribution available worldwide. I am also a regular speaker in OpenStack, Hosting or Cloud events worldwide. Prior to OpenStack...there is nothing

Arturo Suarez
28 October 2015

Canonical Completes MSP/Cloud Verify Certification for BootStack

Article Cloud and server

MSP/Cloud Verify Program offers vendor agnostic Certification for Cloud and Managed Services Practitioners Worldwide; Provides Quality Assurance, and Stamp of Reliability for Current, Potential Customers We are proud to announce today that Canonical has successfully completed the MSPAlliance’s MSP/Cloud Verify Program...

Arturo Suarez
28 October 2015

Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

After the remarkable success of the recent OpenStack days in Taiwan, Seattle and Silicon Valley (Benelux is next, September 17th), and as we head towards the next OpenStack Design Summit in Tokyo, I feel it is a great time to give you the following piece of advice: You should learn OpenStack. The sooner, the better. Let...

Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

Arturo Suarez
9 July 2015

Introducing utility pricing to your Managed Private Cloud

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to introduce one of the most exciting, on-demand, usage-based consumption models yet – and it’s for our managed private cloud service, BootStack. While public cloud, consumption-based pricing has changed the economics (for the better) of how companies and individuals procure compute resources, private...

Arturo Suarez
9 July 2015

Arturo Suarez
16 June 2015

Starting up in the new OpenStack

Article Ubuntu

I had the pleasure to deliver a session at the recent OpenStack day in Budapest, one of the many events organized by different community members globally, followed by a panel with several OpenStack notables. There was one question I jumped into, and that triggered me writing this post: Are the recent acquisition of...

Arturo Suarez
16 June 2015