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Chapter 14
How to test the readiness
of open-source cloud
computing solutions
Qunying Huang, Jizhe Xia, Min Sun, Kai Liu, Jing
Li, Zhipeng Gui, Chen Xu, and Chaowei Yang
This chapter introduces how to test and compare the readiness of three
open-source cloud computing solutions, including Eucalyptus, CloudStack,
and OpenNebula.
14.1 INTRODUCTION
The objective of this chapter is to test the readiness of open-source
solutions in supporting the NIST cloud computing characteristics and
computing requirements for geosciences. The test matrix includes perfor-
mance, usability, costs, and characterizations of the solutions. Initially,
three cloud sol ...