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Chapter 13
Open-source cloud
computing solutions
Chen Xu, Zhipeng Gui, Jing Li, Kai Liu,
Qunying Huang, and Myra Bambacus
In addition to commercial cloud services, many open-source cloud
computing solutions can be exibly tailored to build private cloud services
for the specic demands of a user. This chapter introduces four major
open-source cloud computing solutions including CloudStack, Eucalyptus,
Nimbus, and OpenNebula.
13.1 INTRODUCTION TO OPEN-SOURCE
CLOUD COMPUTING SOLUTIONS
While more commercial IT enterprises are providing cloud services through
their products (Armbrust etal. 2010; Huang etal. 2012), emerging open-
source cloud sol ...