Cloud Computing

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"I really worry about everything going to the cloud, I think it's going to be horrendous. With the cloud, you don't own anything. You already signed it away. I want to feel that I own things."

– Steve Wozniak, Apple Inc. Co-founder, 2012-07-04.


This page collects resources related to "open source cloud computing" or OSCC.

There is a natural synergy between free open source software and cloud computing. FOSS enables fast development of powerful solutions, and solves the main concern about the cloud – providing user control of software and data to avoid extreme lock-in.

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[edit] Data Centers

The physical buildings and infrastructure that serve large cloud solutions.

[edit] Desktop Virtualization

Enables access to an all software desktop from any Internet connected computer.

  • neatx - NX compression.
  • SPICE - NX compression.

[edit] Distributed Computing

Distributed management tools for very high scalability.

  • Cassandra - Data replication and fault tolerance.
  • Hadoop - Processing of very large data sets across many computers.
  • Mesos - Application resource management across clusters
  • Storm - Distributed very large data set processing

[edit] Infrastructure as a Service

Cloud server management software.

[edit] Management

Software used to build and manage clouds.

  • Juju - Manage cloud services (from Canonical/Ubuntu)
  • jclouds - Abstracts multiple API's with Java
  • Libcloud - Library that abstracts multiple cloud API's

[edit] Operating Systems

Operating systems specifically configured for the cloud.

[edit] Software as a Service

Open source applications available over the Internet.

  • Nuxeo - Document Management
  • OpenERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
  • Opentaps - Enterprise Resource Planning
  • vTiger - Customer Resource Management
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