Marketing and Promotion Plan for 4.1.0
Schedule
Deliverables
Item |
Description |
Owner |
Date Needed |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Request for interviews |
Contact media outlets and groups about the release of 4.2 and arrange for interviews. |
Karen.Voung |
29 Sept. 2013 |
In Process |
Release Announcement |
A release announcement about the 4.2.0 release. |
mormullins - Write / ChipC, jzb, ke4qqq - Post on Blog |
1 Oct. 2013 |
In Process |
Post for Blog |
A longer-form post for the CloudStack blog to talk about new features, bugs fixed in the release, the release process, etc. More of a feature than a dry announcement. |
mormullins - Write / ChipC, jzb, ke4qqq - Post |
4 Oct. 2013 |
In Process |
Social Media Campaign |
Suggested Tweets for the release, reaching out to "influencers" to spread the word |
jzb, ke4qqq, ChipC, Giles, others |
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Industry Media Coverage |
Posts from the external community that has contributed to the project and has integrated into CloudStack. Cisco, NetApp, SolidFire, Etc... |
(mtitkowski?, JBurwell?)), others |
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External Blogs and Posts |
Promotion of the announcement, features, community work. |
Giles?, Ilya?, mormullins, ke4qqq?, ChipC?, jzb?, others |
Talking Points
57 New Features:
- UCS Provision
- Support for Windows 2012 Server and Windows 2008
- Support of S3 secondary Storage
- Midonet Network Plug-in
- Dedicated Resources
- Dynamic Scale-up of Resources
- SNMP Alerts
- Cisco ASA Support
- Greater integration with VMware ESXi support
- VM based Snapshots
- SolidFire integration of IOPS controlled storage
29 Feature Improvements
- Support for XenServer 6.2
- OSX support on ESXi 5.1
- Storage Migration for ESXi
- Support of Nicira NVP networking
1900+ Bug Features
- Swift Fixes
- Documentation Fixes
- Need some help sorting through what the most important are.
Release Draft
Overview
Content Tools
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