Future Internet Assembly 2014 Athens, March 19th, 2014 OpenNebula Enabling Business in the Cloud Ignacio M. Llorente OpenNebula Project Director OpenNebula Project. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License
Contents This presentation is about how OpenNebula is impacting the adoption of cloud is driving innovation is enabling business models using European SMEs as examples Thanks to 2/16
What is OpenNebula? Simple but feature-rich, production-ready, customizable solution to build clouds! 3/16
What is OpenNebula? From Research Project to Open-source Project for Enterprise! Develop & innovate Support the community Collaborate Large-scale production deployment: 16,000 VMs 2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 5,000 downloads/ month Research Project 4/16
What is OpenNebula? EU Success Story in Cloud Computing Research and Innovation! Flagship EU Project on Cloud Computing Research Innovative Technology Spin-off Business Platform Innovation Platform 5/16
What is OpenNebula? EU Success Story in Exploitation of FP7 Results! 6/16
Role of Open-source in Cloud Innovation Advantages and Innovation from the Perspective of the Supply Side! Private Cloud Builder Simplify and optimize internal operations, and private platform to improve existing services or support new services Innovation Opportunities for the ICT Industry Public Cloud Provider Create new innovative IaaS and PaaS clouds to fill existing or new needs Product Development Create new innovative cloud products and services to fill existing or new needs 7/16
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation Organizations Building Their Own Private Cloud! Impact Simplify and optimize internal operations Improve existing services and support new services or business models OpenNebula Lowers Barriers to Build your Private Cloud Low-cost alternative Flexible to fit into any data center No vendor lock-in, standard-based Industry Public Sector 8/16
Enabling New SaaS Clouds Runtastic.com by Armin Deliomini (Engineer)! About Our Business Model Runtastic offers products and services to gather and manage sports data in order to motivate people to do sports and to link like-minded people. All relevant sports data (elapsed time, speed, calorie consumption, heart rate) can be tracked via an app (e.g. iphone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone) Why We Chose OpenNebula? Management solution on top of KVM Simple and stable. We are a small team and have a lot of different services to maintain. We didn t want to have an additional spot we need to focus on We use OpenNebula, that is it. No big issues, no big efforts in performance tuning. The infrastructure runs and runs and Benefits of Open-source for Us Most of the software we use at Runtastic is opensource Allows us to easily extend our infrastructure, we have a lot of ideas in extending OpenNebula (integrate LXC, trigger chef bootstrap from) 9/16
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation Innovation through Building Their Public Cloud Service! Impact Build a cloud service that fills new needs or existing needs in an innovative way Address market segment or geographic niches OpenNebula Lowers Barriers to Build new Cloud Services Low-cost alternative Customizable to address specific needs Industry Public Sector 10/16
Enabling New IaaS Clouds BIT.nl by Stefan Kooman (Engineer)! About Our Business Model BIT is a business to business internet service provider in the Netherlands specialized in colocation and managed hosting BIT delivers to quality aware customers the backbone of their IT and internet infrastructure Reliability is the focus of BIT's services. Why We Chose OpenNebula? Simple but powerful / flexible, works out of the box Easy to maintain / upgrade (API) Interface(s) and OSS Great community / development organization Benefits of Open-source for Us Source available (i.e. able to audit code, adjust code, etc) Be able to influence the (feature) roadmap by joining the community Quicker development (more potential developers) OSS models most of the time have an easy way to communicate with developers 11/16
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation Innovation through Developing Their Cloud Product or Service! Impact Build a cloud product Offer integration and professional services OpenNebula Lowers Barriers to Build new Cloud Products Liberal license (ASL v2.0) Customizable to address specific needs Products Services 12/16
Enabling New Cloud Products CloudWeabers.eu by Carlo Daffara (CTO)! About Our Business Model Self-booting USB to build a private cloud, with OpenNebula as its orchestrator Tailored for smaller entities, public administrations and such We sell it as a licensed, encrypted USB key Customers in all ranges- from very small accountant offices to multinationals Why We Chose OpenNebula? Feature set on a par with OpenStack or CloudStack, for one tenth of code lines Easier to understand, to modify, to extend, with engaged community The roadmap is decided along with its users in an effective way without complex voting procedures - making it possible to steer and feel part of the project Benefits of Open-source for Us OSS allowed us to integrate best-of-breed components in a very effective way We try to be good OSS citizens as well, we try to provide patches and documentation for the projects we use and in general to be an active part We found out that this allows us to create something that would be unattainable for an SME like us 13/16
Enabling New Value-added Services Netways.de by Bernd Erk (Managing Director)! About Our Business Model Specializing in enterprise grade open source tools, we ensure the smooth operation of networks, servers and applications We deliver consultancy, training, conferences and managed services for our customers worldwide Why We Chose OpenNebula? We used a self managed Xen platform for years and faced various problem in performance, stability and reliability OpenNebula gives us a robust framework and foundation for our datacenter and is more than flexible enough to fit into our individual customer environments Benefits of Open-source for Us Open-source gives us more control about the used software stack and the freedom to change, contribute and extend the used product More independence and less costs compared to commercial products are additional arguments for Open-Source 14/16
Upcoming Community Events Other Cloud TechDays scheduled in Florida, Bay Area, Berlin, Aveiro, Chicago 15/16
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