The Effects of Maturation of the Cloud Computing Market on Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure Projects

7/28/2019 The Effects of Maturation of the Cloud Computing Market on Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure Projects

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The Effects of Maturation of the

Cloud Computing Market on

Open Source Cloud Computing

Infrastructure Projects

Ivan Voras, Marin Orli, and Branko MihaljeviUniversity of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing


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Outline

The goal of our investigation

Is cloud computing peaking? The products involved, 2009-2013

The current state of the products

Conclusion


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What are we trying to do here?

Our group began in 2009 with a project to

investigate and recommend Open source cloud

computing solutions for the enterprise

We have been involved with the continuations ofthis project for the last three years

We want to present an overview ofwhat has

changed during these years

How the products have matured and how their

focus has changed


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Is cloud computing still a thing?

Not as much...

big data seems to be the next big thing

Google trends

"cloud computing" vs "big data"


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Why is cloud computing not a

buzzword any more?

Maturation

We propose the observation that it is simply a

part of the technology adoption cycle


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Products involved, 2009-2013

OpenNebula at the time the most promising

IaaS product, the most feature-full and the

most stable in practice

Eucalyptus closely followed OpenNebula,

almost as popular, initially a clone of the

Amazon's APIs (AWS, EC2, S3)

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud was arepackaging of Eucalyptus with additional

tools and integrations


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Products involved, 2009-2013

OpenQRM was easy to set up, integrated

and straightforward, one of the first with a

comprehensive web-based GUI

Abiquo similar to OpenQRM, easy GUI, easy

set up, more business-oriented (accounting)

RedHat Cloud Foundations was a bundle

of RedHat's various products for

management and grid computing, with

Windows-based GUIs and without a clear

vision


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Where are they now?

Dead projects: mOSAIC, RHCF

Almost dead: OpenQRM, Nimbus

Hanging-on: Eucalyptus

Relicensed (commercial): Abiquo

The star of the show


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Effects of the maturation of the

market on Open source IaaS

Based on: The frequency ofnew version releases

The size of theircommunity and trending

The new features being implemented in

recent version releases

... our conclusions are:


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The number of viable, applicable products

has shrunk to just two: OpenStack and OpenNebula

Though OpenNebula was first, industry

backing has made OpenStack the currently

most advanced solution The focus has shifted from solutions which are

integrated and somewhat monolithic

(OpenNebula, Eucalyptus), but straightforward

to an aggressively modular, complicated one


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Focus shifts: Enterprise / large scale deployments with

complex network topologies and complex

storage topologies Increased modularity, enabling commercial

improvements / repackaging (n.b. OpenStack)

GUI tools / self-service portals (but... #2) Increased inter-operability with other

products:VMWare

Hyper-V


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