CloudFire Place - Deep Dive in Openstack as a Service

With the beginning of 2026, we inaugurated our new format of offline events: CloudFire Place.

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An event designed to go beyond the classic training event and create a space for authentic discussion between us and our partners.

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CloudFire Place was created with a clear objective: offer concrete training, but above all direct dialogue and truly applicable tools, both from a technical and commercial point of view. It is a limited number event, hosted in our offices, designed to encourage active participation, the sharing of real experiences and open discussion.

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The format will be on a monthly basis and focuses on people even before technology.

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The name CloudFire Place deliberately recalls the idea of Fireplace: an intimate and familiar environment in which to sit at the same table to ask questions, share skills and build value together. Between partners, between CloudFire and partners, collecting feedback and feature requests, and, when present, also with technology vendors.

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The first CloudFire Place: OpenStack as a Service

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The appointment on Friday, January 30 marked the official debut of CloudFire Place.

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We have chosen to dedicate this first meeting to OpenStack as a Service, our service of Infrastructure as a Service based on OpenStack technology.

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The day was structured on two parallel tracks, designed to meet the needs of those who experience the cloud from different but complementary perspectives.

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La Commercial track, led entirely by the CloudFire team, has seen as speakers Giulia Trinceri, Business Development Manager, and Davide Ciliberti, Account Manager. The focus was on consultative sales, the enhancement of the IaaS offer, the management of objections and role play, with the aim of providing concrete tools to communicate the value of CloudFire solutions to end customers.

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La Technical track instead, dedicated to operational figures, it was curated by Alberto Zanafredi, Infrastructure Engineer, and Catalin Malcoci, Pre-Sales Engineer. The insights concerned architecture, dashboards, deployment, networking, migrations and real use cases in Openstack as a Service and were addressed with a practical approach oriented to daily operations.

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The continuous comparison between the two souls, technical and commercial, has made it possible to align languages, expectations and objectives, transforming technology into a conscious business tool.

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Beyond training, there is listening and sharing

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One of the central elements of this first CloudFire Place was the open dialogue. Questions, real use cases, requests for functionality and moments of Q&A made the meeting a space for shared growth, not a simple front session.

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This first appointment confirmed the value of the format and laid the foundations for the next meetings, continuing to build a community of partners that grows together, around skills, trust and collaboration.