Open Source initiatives
- Infrastructure As A Service
- Openstack “We strongly believe that an open development model is the only way to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers.”
- Eucaplyptus “Eucalyptus enables the creation of on-premise private clouds, with no requirements for retooling the organization’s existing IT infrastructure or need to introduce specialized hardware. Eucalyptus implements an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) private cloud that is accessible via an API compatible with Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.”
- Nimbus “Nimbus is an open source toolkit that allows you to turn your cluster into an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud.”
- Platform As A Service
- Cloud Foundry “Cloud Foundry is the open platform as a service project initiated by VMware. It can support multiple frameworks, multiple cloud providers, and multiple application services all on a cloud scale platform.”
- AppScale “AppScale aims for full compatibility with Google App Engine Applications, and is capable of much more.”
Like Eucalyptus, Nimbus has implemented EC2 compatible web interfaces to allow management code developed against EC2 to continue to work on Nimbus.