As the world transitions to the cloud era, the convergence of private, enterprise clouds and public cloud services offers exciting new possibilities to enterprise IT teams and businesses.During this webinar series, ShapeBlue will discuss the benefits that Citrix cloud solutions offer, from building & delivering clouds through to cloud services that offer organisations the elasticity and flexibility to enable a variable-cost and service based model, which includes the orchestration and management of clouds.

	An introduction to Citrix CloudPlatform (powered by Apache CloudStack), Citrix CloudPortal and Citrix  Listen to Recording  View Slides
	Citrix CloudPlatform networking, technical deep dive Listen to Recording
	Using Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager to commercialise your cloud offering Listen to Recording
	Building enterprise private clouds with Citrix CloudPlatform – the USE-CASE’s Listen to Recording Tuesday 18th December 14:00–15:00 GMT

Giles Sirett Managing Consultant ShapeBlue Twitter:@ShapeBlue

Geoff Higginbottom CTO ShapeBlue Twitter:@ShapeBlue

ShapeBlue are the globally leading integrator of Citrix CloudPlatform & Apache CloudStack . They were the first Citrix Cloud Advisor in Europe and in the last 6 months have delivered more clouds, based on CloudPlatform, than any other integrator. These projects include some of the largest global IaaS clouds to be built in the last 12 months.

The common theme for this series of webinars is to look at the business benefits and challenges of these exciting technologies in the context of real-world project implementations.

Giles Sirett

Giles is CEO and founder of ShapeBlue and is responsible for overall company strategy, strategic relationships, finance and sales.

He is also a committer and PMC member of the Apache CloudStack project and Chairman of the European Cloudstack User Group, actively helping promote brand awareness of the technology.

Giles can regularly be heard speaking at events around the globe, delivering visionary talks on cloud computing adoption and more specifically on Cloudstack technologies.

Before ShapeBlue, Giles held C-Level technology positions for 15 years including founder and CEO of Octavia Information Systems, a leading UK Managed Service Provider.

Giles holds a BSc in Engineering Physics from Sheffield Hallam University. Outside work, Giles is married with two teenage children. He coaches children’s rugby, is a competitive masters swimmer and can regularly be seen crying when his beloved Tottenham Hotspur lose.