With all of the recent debate over open source cloud computing platforms, including OpenStack and CloudStack, it’s clear that there is permanent convergence between the open source community and cloud computing. Companies as large as Microsoft and Amazon are shifting huge parts of their business strategies toward the cloud. At OStatic, we’ve been steadily collecting posts and resources related to open source and cloud computing. In this post, you’ll find our updated collection of articles, interviews and educational posts on the topic.
Recently, OStatic conducted an interview series with cloud computing platform managers, and makers of commercial cloud platforms, focused on the question, “What’s in Your Stack?” The people we interviewed are, in many cases, cloud pioneers, and include founders of hot cloud-focused startup companies. A good sample of the interviews in this series can be found here:
CloudSwitch’s Founder on What’s in His Cloud Stack
CloudBees’ Founder Discusses What’s in His Stack
myClin Founder Discusses What’s in His Stack
The Man Behind Swiss Federal Mapping Discusses His Stack
Lucas Carlson, Founder of PHP Fog, Discusses What’s in His Stack
Standing Cloud’s CEO: What in His Stack?
OStatic has also collected many good guest posts on cloud computing from people in the open source community, with good examples found here:
How the Cloud is Changing the Way Developers Work
Finding the Right Cloud for Your Business
How the Cloud is Driving Application Integration Up the Stack
How the Cloud is Impacting Open VoIP Services
How the Cloud is Changing the Way Database Administrators Work
SugarCRM’s Martin Schneider on the Open Cloud
5 Cost-Efficient, Flexible Resources for Cloud Computing
The Ideal Cloud Deployment: A Patchwork Quilt of Tools
Citrix Leverages OpenStack with Project Olympus Platform
Canonical Spreads its Cloud Wings with OpenStack
Rackspace Delivers “Fanatically Supported” Cloud Platform Based on OpenStack
And, you can follow our coverage of the recent news regarding OpenStack and CloudStack in this series of posts:
Citrix’s Open Source CloudStack 3.0 Platform to Challenge Amazon, VMware
VMware CEO Sees OpenStack as Lacking Maturity
CloudStack, OpenStack and the Significance of Support
Citrix Sharpens Focus on Cloud, Cuts Support for OpenStack
You can find many more resources we’ve compiled on cloud computing here. Stay tuned to OStatic throughout this year for many more interviews with movers and shakers and general posts on cloud computing, with a special focus on open source tools.
