OpenNebula
Enabling Business in the Cloud
Ignacio M. Llorente
OpenNebula Project Director
Future Internet Assembly 2014
Contents
The Business of Open-source Technologies for Cloud Computing
This presentation is about how OpenNebula
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is impacting the adoption of cloud
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is driving innovation
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is enabling business models
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using European SMEs as examples
What is OpenNebula?
What is OpenNebula?
From Research Project to Open-source Project for Enterprise!
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Develop & innovate
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Support the community
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Collaborate
Large-scale production
deployment: 16,000 VMs
5,000 downloads/
month
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Research
Project
EU Success Story in Cloud Computing Research and Innovation!
What is OpenNebula?
Business Platform
Innovation Platform
Flagship EU Project on Cloud Computing Research
Innovative
EU Success Story in Exploitation of FP7 Results!
Advantages and Innovation from the Perspective of the Supply Side!
Role of Open-source in Cloud Innovation
Product Development
Create new innovative cloud products and services to fill existing or new needs
Private Cloud Builder
Simplify and optimize internal operations, and private platform to improve existing services or support new services
Public Cloud Provider
Create new innovative IaaS and PaaS clouds to fill existing or new needs
Innovation Opportunities
for the ICT Industry
Organizations Building Their Own Private Cloud!
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation
Public Sector
Industry
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
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)
Runtastic.com by Armin Deliomini (Engineer) !
Innovation through Building Their Public Cloud Service!
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation
Public Sector
Industry
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
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
BIT.nl by Stefan Kooman (Engineer) !
Innovation through Developing Their Cloud Product or Service!
Role of OpenNebula in Cloud Innovation
Services
Products
Impact
• Build a cloud product
• Offer integration and professional services
OpenNebula Lowers Barriers to Build new Cloud Products
• Liberal license (ASL v2.0)
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
CloudWeabers.eu by Carlo Daffara (CTO) !
Netways.de by Bernd Erk (Managing Director)!
Enabling New Value-added Services
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
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