Open Source clouds: Be the change you want to see
Cloud Open 2014
Tryggvi Lárusson, Co-founder and CTO
What is OSATA 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
• 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 research laboratories
• Enabled mass sharing and collaboration among users
OSAT Philosophy Dates Back to the 1960s
Source: http://evhippel.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/private-collective-model-os.pdf), 2004
“Hacker culture” emerged from labs
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“freely give and exchange software they had written, to modify and build upon each other’s software both individually and
collaboratively, and to freely give out their modifications in turn”.
Open Source defect rates are 50x to 150x lower than proprietary software1
Proprietary = time extensive and expensive
Open Source = building on existing code - quicker to market and cheaper
Open source benefits a fast moving and rapidly growing industry!
Today open source is widely used among major internet companies
Creating differentiation
1. Wired, 2004
WHY?
What is desirable to users
What is possible with technology
What is viable is the
marketplace
INNOVATION
Differentiation through innovation
Because fewer funds are needed to research technology, a focus on
customer needs and market trends can be increased.
How OSAT improves the community
Shared technology - prevents the wheel from being reinvented
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How OSAT improves the community
Cloud as a platform for OSAT !
Greater Distribution of knowledge and ideas
Ideas and blueprints crafted and collaborated
in the cloud
Shared in global online communities
Everyone with access to the internet gains access to vital, life improving
technology
Ideas and designs crafted and collaborated on in an OSAT cloud
The UN have said that there is a direct link between access to information technology and development1
1Annan, 2000
The importance of accessing knowledge through IT
What is hindering the cloud enabled OSAT movement?
INTERNET ACCESS!
2,3Cloud computing and developing nations (Greengard, 2010); 4Cloud computing - The business perspective (Marston, et.al, 2010); 5UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2013
Cloud computing as a means to provide much needed infrastructure
• Quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure1
• Level the playing field, as it breaks down barriers to entry2
• 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 services3
• Cloud among the most significant disruptive technologies over the next two decades
Future of the cloud is distributed
Identity Federations
1. Forbes.com, 2014
Key ingredient in successful Hybrid Cloud implementations
or Cloud Federations
Federation of Research/UniversitiesFederation of NRENS
Cloud A Cloud B Cloud C
Bridges the gap between proprietary and open
standards
Built on CloudStack
QStack™
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
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UI , Usage Reporting & Logging
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Compute API
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Object Storage API
Sustainable clouds
Renewable energyPercentage 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
Strengthening the compatibility of open source by testing it against
proprietary requirements.Creditability
through contribution
The backbone of open source is collaboration and contribution
QStack = sustainability enabled by default
Deployment agnostic = it can scale with the business
Private can become hybrid, hybrid can become public
Burstability can allow for environmental sustainability
Thanks for listening. Questions?
Cloud Open 2014
Tryggvi Lárusson, Co-founder and CTO