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Peter Dreuw
Head of Sales & Marketing
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Peter Dreuw has been working for credativ GmbH since 2016 and has been a team lead since 2017. Since 2021, he has been part of Instaclustr’s management team as VP Services. Following the acquisition by NetApp, his new role became “Senior Manager Open Source Professional Services”. As part of the spin-off, he became a member of the executive management as an authorized signatory. His responsibilities include leading sales and marketing. He has been a Linux user from the very beginning and has been running Linux systems since kernel 0.97. Despite extensive experience in operations, he is a passionate software developer and is also well versed in hardware-near systems.
08 September 2025
Credativ Joins the Open Source Business Alliance
Dear Open Source Community, dear partners and customers, We are pleased to announce that credativ GmbH is once again a member of the Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) in Germany. This return is very important to us and continues a long-standing tradition, because even before the acquisition by NetApp, credativ® was an […]
13 August 2025
Proxmox VE 9.0: a Milestone for Open-Source Virtualization
Die Veröffentlichung von Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 markiert einen bedeutenden Schritt nach vorne für die beliebte Open-Source-Virtualisierungsplattform. Mit einer Reihe von Verbesserungen in den Bereichen Leistung, Flexibilität und Benutzerfreundlichkeit hebt sich diese Version von ihren Vorgängern ab und richtet sich verstärkt an die Anforderungen von Unternehmen. Proxmox 9 Paketquellen (Quelle: proxmox.com) Die wichtigsten Neuerungen im […]
28 February 2025
Credativ once Again an Independent Company
Effective March 1, 2025, the Mönchengladbach-based open-source specialist credativ IT Services GmbH will once again operate as an independent company in the market. In May 2022, credativ GmbH was acquired by NetApp and integrated into NetApp Deutschland GmbH on February 1, 2023. This step allowed the company to draw on extensive experience and a broader […]
18 April 2019
The XEN hypervisor and microcode updates
One would think that microcode updates are basically unproblematic on modern Linux distributions. This is fundamentally correct. Nevertheless, there are always edge cases in which distribution developers may have missed something. Using the example of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver” in connection with the XEN Hypervisor this becomes obvious when it comes to processors microcode […]