Open Source Cloud Computing on the rise
VMware player shows us that virtualization has many benefits even on a dual processor laptop. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) sets the cloud computing standard, shows us that cloud computing is feasible and could be cheap (after all, they only make us pay for hourly usage). So here in 2012 we found that there are so many open source cloud computing solutions out there.. Core Service Virtualization is provided by several commonly known hypervisors : VMWare vSphere . This one is not open source at all. Xen . Xen was a mature hypervisor that were fully open-sourced by Citrix in 2009. There are open source version (Xen Cloud Platform), free version (XenServer Free), and paid version. Kernel-based Virtual Machine ( KVM ). KVM is an open source virtualization software that tightly integrated with the Linux kernel as the host OS. On top of these core hypervisors is built more GUI and Management layer, resulting in cloud computing platforms. Cloud computing pl...