{"id":3887,"date":"2012-10-01T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2383359"},"modified":"2012-10-01T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:41:00","slug":"the-role-of-open-source-in-cloud-computing-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-role-of-open-source-in-cloud-computing-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Open Source in Cloud Computing Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open source software stacks offer a huge amount of customization so the cloud being built does what is expected \u2013 and without huge licensing fees.<br \/>\nA recent article on GigaOm.com asks, \u201cHow can open-source cloud management tools like Eucalyptus, CloudStack and OpenStack impact the adoption of cloud technology?\u201d<br \/>\nLowering the barrier to entry<br \/>\nMost organizations adopt cloud to optimize their IT investment, to improve existing services or to support new business and service models, according to the article. In this scenario, open-source lowers the barriers for new organizations to build their private cloud.<br \/>\nFacilitating custom clouds<br \/>\nMany organizations appreciate that open source allows great customization to meet individual requirements. They can build a differentiated cloud service to meet customers needs.<br \/>\nOpen-source clouds beget more clouds<br \/>\nOpen source also encourages and supports innovation in the development of new cloud products.<br \/>\nUser-supplier collaboration makes a better cloud<br \/>\nCollaboration between technology providers and users is a huge advantage in the open source arena. In open source projects, the project roadmap is driven by user needs. That means features will meet real end-user expectations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2383359\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source software stacks offer a huge amount of customization so the cloud being built does what is expected \u2013 and without huge licensing fees.<br \/>\nA recent article on GigaOm.com asks, \u201cHow can open-source cloud management tools like Eucalyptus, Clo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}