Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress

Some commercial vendors offer not only service and support, but also their own open-source frameworks. For example, DellDell, a member of the OpenStack community since its creation, has unveiled Crowbar, an IaaS framework that was developed using Chef and includes a reference architecture based on its own servers, OpenStack open-source software, and services from Dell and Rackspace. Alles zu Dell auf CIO.de

The main authors of the OpenNebula IaaS framework founded C12G labs to provide professional services to OpenNebula customers.

Network virtualization software vendor Nicera is leading the development of the Quantum project within OpenStack, which will provide network connectivity for devices managed by other OpenStack services. While its network virtualization layer isn't open source, it does support the open-source Open vSwitch virtual switch. It hopes to use OpenStack to drive sales of its software, much as server vendors rode the adoption of Linux to drive hardware sales, says Alan Cohen, vice president of marketing.

- Robert L. Scheier

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