Talking about cloud computing and open source technology

Cloud computing in the face of the current development bottlenecks, how to develop their own characteristics, in order to pay attention to the cloud computing people are thinking about the problem, and the combination of open source technology has become a lot of people's first choice.

The ultimate goal of cloud computing for enterprise applications is to achieve flexible, free allocation and use of resources, as well as a relatively free, open and relatively flexible approach to cloud computing platforms and services, so that cloud computing and Open-source technology are "hit". Cloud computing has been hot for many years, and the real ability to land in addition to a few leading companies in the cloud, it is a number of government agencies, "cloud Platform", "Cloud terminal." In the end cloud computing mixed to mix what kind of appearance, incredibly after a few years of hot today also no one can say, have to say is the sadness of cloud computing. But in the end, cloud computing, after all, cloud computing this service model itself is also very vague, not to mention that the cloud services provider to provide cloud products and cloud services have their own characteristics. In the end, cloud computing in the face of the current development bottlenecks, how to develop their own characteristics, in order to pay attention to the cloud computing people are thinking about the problem, and the combination of open source technology has become a lot of people's first choice.

Why cloud computing needs open source technology

The ultimate goal of cloud computing for enterprise applications is to achieve flexible, free allocation and use of resources, as well as a relatively free, open and relatively flexible approach to cloud computing platforms and services, so that cloud computing and Open-source technology are "hit". As a traditional IT platform upgrades and additions, open source cloud computing platform in IBM, Red Hat and other manufacturers to gradually mature, but also gradually make this technology commercialization process gradually.

Open source technology can provide the most powerful support for cloud computing because the low-cost features of open source software can help cloud computing service providers significantly reduce the cost of development, operations, maintenance, and so on. Public cloud computing applications must be open, and this requires the application of cloud computing standards must be open, which makes the public cloud must be the open source software technology to bear.

In the Enterprise Building cloud computing platform, many people do not notice that cloud computing also needs very good compatibility, while for the development of the gathered, compatibility is also very important. And that's a lot of people can't understand, it seems as if choosing a cloud computing service provider is OK, but if it is not satisfied with its services or technology, the company should be able to move to another cloud platform as quickly as renting a house, which determines that cloud computing needs to be open and compatible. In this way, the openness and compatibility of open source technology is more relevant to the needs of cloud computing. At the same time to ensure that the application of customers in different technical environment to run. Cloud computing service providers should be active in open standards and open source code, through the open community and users, developers to work together, this is the most reasonable way to cloud meter services.

Open source development of cloud computing

IBM, Red Hat and other manufacturers in the open source industry has been a high reputation, but also for the open source community development and open source technology progress has a considerable contribution. At the same time, they are vigorously promoting the development of open source cloud computing. Take Red Hat as an example, since 2009, Red Hat began to launch cloud computing software products and services, and put forward their own cloud computing enterprise positioning. In the cloud industry chain, Microsoft, IBM and other major traditional it vendors are looking for their own opportunities and location, Red Hat positioning itself as a "framework supplier." This means that in the three service tiers of cloud computing (SaaS software i.e. services, PAAs platforms, services, and IAAS infrastructure as services), Red Hat has a corresponding product and service support.

Linux and Open source technology provide the foundation for the cloud, while Linux is also experiencing a wave of development centered on virtualization, management, and the integration of large-scale cloud software packages. In recent years, as companies have gradually moved towards an open IT environment, Linux usage has steadily increased, while more large enterprises have joined the Linux camp. The cloud computing service provider network transforms resources into scalable shared resources, which are services. Linux has played an important role in the process by leveraging virtualized shared physical systems to make cloud computing and storage more efficient and scalable.

To the advent of the cloud era, cloud computing technology development and landing, open source technology to its impact is gradually deepening and show the effect, can be foreseen in the future, open source cloud computing will become an important direction of cloud computing development, perhaps the most ultimate direction.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)