Yahoo Open source IaaS helps developers build their own cloud services

Yahoo recently announced the open source IaaS (infrastructure as a Service), meaning users can download the IaaS server used inside Yahoo. Through the cloud service engine, developers can build their own cloud services in containers above the virtual machine level, and can provide a range of IaaS and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/16038.html ">paas Mixed service.

Today's new cloud service providers want to compete with existing IaaS and PAAs engines, and cloud service providers like Amazon, Rackspac, Gogrid, Google and Microsoft have taken over most of the market, but the Open-source platform has always been a trend for the IT world, It is also more attractive to customers in terms of business costs, so using open source cloud computing platforms can in some ways be a business breakthrough for the company. As early as last year, Yahoo said it planned to open its own cloud computing platform early in 2011 and gradually open up all of its backend platforms.

Yahoo is almost the first provider of Open-source cloud servers. OpenStack Open source cloud computing platform was released in 2010 to provide basic storage and computing services, such as Rackspace, NASA, Dell, Jie, Cisco and canonical, more than 50 companies or organizations set up a technology alliance to support the development of the open source cloud computing platform. In addition, cloud service provider Eucalyptus also offers a popular open source IaaS service and many other open source cloud systems.

In fact, the important thing is not to have a new open source cloud computing software platform, but rather whether Yahoo can make its cloud computing software platform as open source products to customers. This may change your expectations for big suppliers, such as Amazon and Google, which provide the cloud services externally as "closed", but perhaps these big vendors will also open up their cloud services in the near future.

The core value of Yahoo's move is self-protection. If a customer deploys an enterprise infrastructure through a "closed" IaaS, there is a real risk. But if there is an open source cloud service as a choice, it will mitigate some of the risks, while cloud computing services are also easier to promote in business or government agencies. The trend in IT development will be to provide customers with open source options, including services that most cloud computing customers may not use.