CloudStack is an open source cloud computing platform that provides infrastructure as a service. It was originally formed in 2008 as VMOps and was later acquired by Citrix in 2011. CloudStack allows for on-demand provisioning of computing resources in a multi-tenant environment with high availability and supports various hypervisors including KVM, XenServer, and VMware. It provides APIs to manage and automate the provisioning of virtual computing resources.

1. CloudStack David Nalley [email_address]

2. ©2011 Cloud.com Content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 unported; Formed in 2008 (as VMOps) Open Sourced CloudStack – May 2010 Acquired by Citrix – July 2011 Dropped 'open core' – August 2011

3. What is the cloud On-Demand Self-Service

4. Broad Network Access

5. Resource Pooling

6. Rapid Elasticity

7. Measured Service

8. What is the cloud? The Cloud is AWESOME

9. The Cloud is OSSM O – On-demand

10. S – Self-Service

11. S – Scalable

12. M – Measurable Credit to Dave Nielsen for OSSM

13. What kind of clouds? SaaS

14. PaaS

15. IaaS Compute

16. Storage

17. Networking

18. SaaS

19. PaaS

20. IaaS

21. What is CloudStack? Free (as in speech, and beer) Infrastructure as a Service implementation that supports multiple hypervisors, complex network and firewall configuration, high-availability, and complex multi-tenant offerings.

22. What do IaaS Cloud Platforms really do? Manage HA