The Effects of Maturation of the Cloud Computing Market on Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure Projects

Ivan Voras, Marin Orli, and Branko Mihaljevi

University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Outline
The goal of our investigation Is cloud computing peaking? The products involved, 2009-2013 The current state of the products Conclusion

What are we trying to do here?

Our group began in 2009 with a project to investigate and recommend Open source cloud computing solutions for the enterprise We have been involved with the continuations of this project for the last three years We want to present an overview of what has changed during these years

How the products have matured and how their focus has changed

Is cloud computing still a thing?

Not as much... big data seems to be the next big thing

Google trends "cloud computing" vs "big data"

Why is cloud computing not a buzzword any more?

Maturation We propose the observation that it is simply a part of the technology adoption cycle

Products involved, 2009-2013

OpenNebula at the time the most promising IaaS product, the most feature-full and the most stable in practice Eucalyptus closely followed OpenNebula, almost as popular, initially a clone of the Amazon's APIs (AWS, EC2, S3) Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud was a repackaging of Eucalyptus with additional tools and integrations

Products involved, 2009-2013

OpenQRM was easy to set up, integrated and straightforward, one of the first with a comprehensive web-based GUI Abiquo similar to OpenQRM, easy GUI, easy set up, more business-oriented (accounting) RedHat Cloud Foundations was a bundle of RedHat's various products for management and grid computing, with Windows-based GUIs and without a clear vision

Products involved, 2009-2013

OpenStack a very young (at the time) product, not very integrated and unusually hard to set up due do its modularity Nimbus an academic product aimed for closed environments (known and trusted users) and scientific workloads mOSAIC was an EU-backed academic project which aimed to reimplement cloud computing components without much novelty

Where are they now?

Dead projects:

mOSAIC, RHCF OpenQRM, Nimbus Eucalyptus Abiquo

The star of the show

Almost dead:

Hanging-on:

Relicensed (commercial):

Effects of the maturation of the market on Open source IaaS

Based on:
The frequency of new version releases The size of their community and trending The new features being implemented in recent version releases

... our conclusions are:

Effects of the maturation of the market on Open source IaaS

The number of viable, applicable products has shrunk to just two:

OpenStack and OpenNebula

Though OpenNebula was first, industry backing has made OpenStack the currently most advanced solution

The focus has shifted from solutions which are integrated and somewhat monolithic (OpenNebula, Eucalyptus), but straightforward to an aggressively modular, complicated one

Effects of the maturation of the market on Open source IaaS

Focus shifts:
Enterprise / large scale deployments with complex network topologies and complex storage topologies Increased modularity, enabling commercial improvements / repackaging (n.b. OpenStack) GUI tools / self-service portals (but... #2) Increased inter-operability with other products:

VMWare Hyper-V

Thank you for listening!

Ivan Voras
ivan.voras@fer.hr