open source clouds at virtu alley
DESCRIPTION
As proprietary cloud solutions look to establish themselves in the marketplace, open source technologies are also stepping up to provide customers with the latest innovations and security solutions to meet their needs. This session highlights the four significant IaaS open source cloud projects with basic information, current status, customer examples and why open source clouds matter to you. Who knows, this talk may even lead you to not only using open source, but also becoming a significant contributor.TRANSCRIPT
Brighten Your Cloudy Future with Open Source
Stephen SpectorDell Cloud Evangelist
January 2013
Agenda
Open Source IaaS Projects• OpenNebula• Eucalyptus• CloudStack• OpenStack
Why Open Source Matters
Take Action – Join the Revolution
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OpenNebula
Mission Statement
OpenNebula.org is an open-source project developing the industry standard solution for building and managing virtualized enterprise data centers and IaaS
cloud
OpenNebula
Customers - http://opennebula.org/users:users
OpenNebula
Eucalyptus
Mission Statement
Eucalyptus Systems provides enterprises & technology businesses with the leading open source software for building AWS-compatible private & hybrid clouds
Eucalyptus => Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems
History• Fall 2007 – Research project at Computer Science Dept at Univ of California,
Santa Barbara• VGrADS – Virtual Grid Application Development Software Project
• May 29, 2008 – First release of Eucalyptus with EC2 interface• Jan 2009 – Formed Eucalyptus company
Eucalyptus
Customers - http://www.eucalyptus.com/customers
Eucalyptus
CloudStack
Mission Statement
Build a complete software suite for creating infrastructure as a Service clouds targeting service providers and enterprises
History• Developed by Cloud.com and first release was May 5, 2012 under GNU 3.0• Acquired by Citrix Systems on July 12, 2011• Aug 29, 2012 – Release CloudStack 2.2.11 with VMWare and Oracle VM virt tech• April 3, 2012 – Given to Apache Software Foundation under Apache license
CloudStack
Customers – http://BuildACloud.org/about-cloudstack/users.html
CloudStack
OpenStack
History• March 2010 – Rackspace decides to open source cloud storage software • May 2010 – NASA open sources Nebula platform • June 2012 – Rackspace/NASA agree to create OpenStack• July 2012 – Inaugural Design Summit with 25 partners• October 2012 – “Austin” release available
Mission Statement
To produce the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of private and public cloud providers regardless of size by being simple to
implement and massively scalable
OpenStack
Customers - http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/
OpenStack
Why Open Source Matters
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It’s one of the most powerful models for an architecture of participation- Tim O’Reilly
Feudal Architecture Social Architecture
Ruby Language
Why Open Source Matters
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Ownership
• EULA grants “use” but ownership is with software publisher
Cross – Platform
• Open APIs ; Vendor Lock-In ; Transparency ; Standards
Innovation
• Use It – Update It –Share It
Take Action – Join the Revolution
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