Is there any future to open source cloud computing?

The strong development of open source in infrastructure software design, coupled with the dramatic adoption of cloud computing, has created a powerful synergy: their impact and effectiveness are far-reaching. This synergy comes from the need for flexibility, cost savings through free or low-cost software licensing fees, elimination of vendor lock-in issues (thus preventing vendors from trying to control the entire system architecture), and other benefits.

The question is, how exactly does open source cloud computing survive in a market environment where services and infrastructure platforms are becoming commercialized?

Aside from the few benefits described earlier, open source cloud computing ensures that end users have access to free source code that they can share at will. Because this software can be willing to accept changes and improvements to meet the different needs, so it will certainly be very popular.

The hope for the future lies in the integration of the "need-use-satisfaction" (need-use-gratification) system. There is likely to be a collaborative cloud computing model in the future, with Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17885.html "> inspired by Open business models." To understand this idea, it is advisable to envisage such a vast exchange of barter markets: people develop and exchange services and ideas, and continue to improve in this process, thus adding value to the exchange of services. This would also mean that the results of the effort could be integrated and the infrastructure shared in order to achieve a better scale. The prospect is now in the so-called "cloud Union" (Cloud Federation), which is growing in the field of Open-source cloud computing.

Some companies that have launched open source cloud computing have taken a big step in that direction. The first should be Amazon's Eucalyptus project, which leverages Amazon's network services (AWS) API, which brings a number of cloud service functions. They also support services from open source technology distributors such as Red Hat. Another notable example is OpenStack, which is a new player in the open source cloud computing service offering, but not the power to underestimate. Its services manage computing and storage through two projects, namely the OpenStack Compute Project and the OpenStack Object storage project. Other projects include well-known Opennebula, sheepdog, and Ganeti, all leveraging open source tools, kernel based virtual machines (KVM), and Xen.

So why is cloud computing trending likely to go into open source? According to Pete Chadwick, senior manager of Cloud Computing solutions at Attachemate Group's SuSE division, cloud computing needs to go this way for the following reasons, and it will go this way in the future. First, the Open cloud computing environment supports greater flexibility (a key principle of cloud computing) because it provides more choices for end users rather than a single choice for users. Secondly, the security of cloud computing will be more effectively solved in the open environment, in the development environment, the security issue will be more and more experts and developers close attention. In this environment, there will always be people in the security to provide you with protection.

According to another industry authority, information technology and business strategy expert Dion Hinchcliffe said that open source cloud computing will have a better development prospects, this is inevitable, because open source cloud computing will be the full use of patent services, improve the market situation is an important means.

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