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