Cloud Open 2014 Open Source clouds: Be the change you want to see Tryggvi Lárusson, Co-founder and CTO
What is OSAT A framework in which the benefits of the open source methodology are applied to technology which is of social importance
What is Appropriate Technologies? Any technology which has a positive environmental impact or improves living standards
OSAT Philosophy Dates Back to the 1960s “Hacker culture” emerged from labs • Software developed during the 1960s and 1970s created in academic / corporate laboratories by scientists and engineers � • ARPANET, built in 1969, linked hundreds � of universities, defense contractors and “freely give and exchange software they had research laboratories written, to modify and build upon each other’s software both individually and • Enabled mass sharing and collaboration collaboratively, and to freely give out their among users modifications in turn”. Source: http://evhippel.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/private-collective-model-os.pdf), 2004
Today open source is widely used among major internet companies WHY? Open Source defect rates are 50x to 150x lower than proprietary software 1 Proprietary = time extensive and expensive Creating differentiation Open Source = building on existing code - quicker to market and cheaper Open source benefits a fast moving and rapidly growing industry! 1. Wired, 2004
Differentiation through innovation What is desirable to users Because fewer funds are needed to research technology, a focus on customer needs and market trends can INNOVATION be increased. What is viable What is is the possible with marketplace technology
How OSAT improves the community Shared technology - prevents the wheel from being reinvented
How OSAT improves the community o
Cloud as a platform for OSAT � Greater Distribution of knowledge and ideas
Ideas and designs crafted and collaborated on in an OSAT cloud Everyone with access to Shared in global online Ideas and blueprints the internet gains access communities crafted and collaborated to vital, life improving in the cloud technology
The importance of accessing knowledge through IT The UN have said that there is a direct link between access to information technology and development 1 1 Annan, 2000
What is hindering the cloud enabled OSAT movement? INTERNET ACCESS!
Cloud computing as a means to provide much needed infrastructure • Cloud among the most significant disruptive technologies over the next two decades • Third-world cloud computing providers using cloud to enable IT services in countries that would have traditionally lacked the resources for widespread deployment of IT services 3 • Quick and affordable way to tap into IT • Level the playing field, as it breaks down infrastructure 1 barriers to entry 2 2,3 Cloud computing and developing nations (Greengard, 2010); 4 Cloud computing - The business perspective (Marston, et.al, 2010); 5 UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2013
Future of the cloud is distributed
Identity Federations Key ingredient in successful Hybrid Cloud implementations or Cloud Federations 1. Forbes.com, 2014
Cloud A Cloud C Cloud B Federation of NRENS Federation of Research/Universities
QStack™ Bridges the gap between Built on CloudStack proprietary and open standards
Every major component of QStack™ has roots in open source
QStack™ Best of breed open source project packaged together in an easily installable and usable form
UI , Usage Reporting & Logging + +
Compute API +
Object Storage API +
Sustainable clouds
Renewable energy Percentage of Electricity Generation from Renewable Sources
Sustainability metrics
Sustainability metrics
We were able to use our own resources to define and maintain the focus of our development thanks to open source
The backbone of open source is collaboration and contribution Strengthening the compatibility of Creditability open source by testing it against through contribution proprietary requirements.
Deployment agnostic = it can scale with the business Private can become hybrid, hybrid can become public QStack = sustainability enabled by default Burstability can allow for environmental sustainability
Cloud Open 2014 Thanks for listening. Questions? Tryggvi Lárusson, Co-founder and CTO
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