OpenNebula Enabling Business in the Cloud

Ignacio M. Llorente OpenNebula Project Director

Future Internet Assembly 2014 Athens, March 19th, 2014

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Contents The Business of Open-source Technologies for Cloud Computing

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

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What is OpenNebula? Simple but feature-rich, production-ready, customizable solution to build clouds!

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What is OpenNebula? From Research Project to Open-source Project for Enterprise!

2005 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

• Develop & innovate • Support the community • Collaborate

Large-scale production deployment: 16,000 VMs

5,000 downloads/month

2014 2013

Research Project

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EU Success Story in Cloud Computing Research and Innovation!What is OpenNebula?

Business Platform

Innovation Platform

Flagship EU Project on Cloud Computing Research

Innovative Technology Spin-off

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EU Success Story in Exploitation of FP7 Results!What is OpenNebula?

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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

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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 •  No vendor lock-in, standard-based

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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 by Armin Deliomini (Engineer) http://opennebula.org/opennebula-at-runtastic/ !Enabling New SaaS Clouds

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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 •  Customizable to address specific needs

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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) !Enabling New IaaS Clouds

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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) •  Customizable to address specific needs

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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) !Enabling New Cloud Products

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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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