In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone.
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Its challenge is to provide open-source cloud software that is functional enough that no one will actually want to replace it.
Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
Some vendors, such as Red Hat and Rackspace, are consciously positioning themselves as advocates of an open cloud built around open source, and foresee great benefits accruing to the enterprises that can charge into the cloud without being locked in to a particular vendor, particularly when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
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Maritz says his company purchased a shop called Cloud Foundry, where open source developers can work together, and VMware can spot the eventual leaders in the field.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
Rackspace has taken on several initiatives to stay ahead of the trend on its Cloud offerings, significantly founding the open source organization OpenStack.
In addition, it is arriving at a time in which some of the traditional advantages of open source-based business models have eroded because of cloud computing and other developments.
As our enterprise customers move to open, hybrid cloud architectures, we are addressing their needs with a clear roadmap based on industry-leading open source technologies.
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Cloud computing fundamentally shifts the benefits of the Open Source movement, fueling innovation from new sectors, and impacting our culture at large in ways that parallel how we have seen Twitter and Facebook up-end the status quo.
With Deltacloud, its open-source offering, Red Hat has set out to standardize the cloud, which has already begun to splinter into vertical stacks.
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Awhile back, EMC-owned VMWare bought Springsource, an open source software company that it hopes to can create an easy to use cloud developer environment for both Java and Ruby on Rails.
To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
He wishes that the company had gone to market from the outset as a cloud-based solution, rather than taking a detour through open-source.
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Using open source virtualization technologies like KVM and Xen, ULAP is managed with the EUCALYPTUS and OpenStack cloud management platforms.
The company has long been a contributor to the Linux and open source software communities and is well known for its work on open operating systems as well as the open cloud.
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