Cloud Computing: OpenNebula Celebrates Its 6 Year Anniversary!

November 16, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Ignacio Llorente.

Time flies, and we are once again celebrating our anniversary. Let me take advantage of this opportunity to describe the progress of the project during the last 6 years by using the slides of the opening talk "Unleashing the Future of Open-source Enterprise Cloud Computing" in the first OpenNebula Conference held in Berlin one month ago.

Our Vision: Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication", Leonardo da Vinci

When the OpenNebula project started in 2008, we intended to create an open solution to make Enterprise Cloud simple. From the beginning, we understood enterprise cloud computing as en evolution of data center virtualization to host both cloud-aware and traditional applications. So we aimed to combine existing virtualization technologies with multi-tenancy, automatic provision and elasticity, following a bottom-up approach driven by the real-life needs of sysadmins and devops, and the following main principles:…

  • Flexibility: Easy customization to fit into any datacenter
  • SysAdmin-centrism: Complete control over the cloud
  • Simplicity: Easy to deploy, update, operate and use
  • Lightness: Highly efficient
  • Enterprise-readiness: Delivered as a single production-proven, packaged product…

Read more from the source @ http://www.sys-con.com/node/2873721