The influence of IaaS technology in open cloud computing architecture design

Gartner unveiled the Magic Quadrant (Magic Quadrant) of the main IaaS manufacturer at the end of 2010. Amazon AWS is still listed as the most visionary (visionary) enterprise, and Savvis is ranked as the most executive. However, Gartner does not list open source products and systems such as eucalyptus, Opennebula, and the impact of these systems on the cloud computing industry is great.

Savvis (NASDAQ:SVVS) was a hosting (Hosting) provider, in 2002, Intel decided to quit the hosting business, Savvis was chosen by Intel to provide hosting and network services for its users, and later Savvis acquired Cable & Wireless USA includes 3,000 enterprise users, 15 data centers, and a T1 link. Savvis now has more than 2000 employees and 28 data centers. However, Savvis does not seem to have much to do with technology and business in several areas of the SPI Cloud.

Rackspace is also one of the world's leading hosting providers, and later turned to cloud computing, which provides cloud services called Mosso. Founded in 1998, Rackspace currently has 10 data centers worldwide, managing more than 50000 servers. It was listed in the NYSE in 2008 and has been profitable every year since 2001. Recently, rackspace the Apache 2.0 license to open its cloud computing platform code as part of the OpenStack project, OpenStack is a product of U.S. NASA and Rackspace cooperation.

Gogrid provides virtual machine rentals and claims that it is the only cloud service provider with real control capabilities, providing a multi-server control panel that enables deployment and management of a cloud server that needs to be load balanced in a matter of minutes. Register an account on the Gogrid site, and after a few minutes receive a confirmation message, you can start the server Setup.

Joyent has been providing "architecture as a Service (Iaas)" 2004 years before the cloud became popular and is known as one of the largest cloud providers. Joyent has claimed that it provides thousands of web, mobile, and server applications each month for 1 billion of end-users, so research reports include it as a PAAs service provider. Currently, Joyent has provided platform support for about 25% of Facebook apps, and one of its customers has already topped 1 billion per month of LinkedIn's visit. Another popular microblogging service provider like Twitter, identi.ca, also chose Joyent, while Joyent currently employs only 22 people, including management and sales staff.

The Nebula computing platform is an in-house project at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley to focus on computing resources, using open-source free software to provide NASA scientists and engineers with low-cost cloud computing services. Because of the need to meet the FISMA (Information Security Management Act) Bill, the commercial cloud computing system is difficult to do, so there is nebula this internal project. However, Nebula has an open source version of Opennebula, and Nebula is one of the contributors to the OpenStack system. Nebula Follow the Open virtualization Format, AMQP, SQLAlchemy and other standards.