Open-source cloud frameworks: A work in progress

WSO2 Stratos is already addressing such needs with products to support not only application development and deployment, but also integration, rules, business process management, governance, complex event processing and identity management, says Haddad.

Case Studies

State Street and Backupify Write Their Own Cloud Frameworks

When none of the cloud frameworks on the market matched their needs, financial services giant State Street and online backup provider Backupify each wrote their own.

State Street began looking at frameworks in 2009 as a way to more efficiently make use of its global data centers, but it found that most of them were focused only on provisioning and control of virtualized servers "in sort of an abstract way," says chief architect Kevin Sullivan. They couldn't simplify more complex tasks such as the ongoing need to update its 800 applications, provide the level of authentication needed to protect customer data, and discover and reuse services ranging from security to data warehousing that State Street had already developed and wanted to move to its private cloud.