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1. The OpenNebula Approach to Bring
Open-source to the Enterprise
Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente
Executive Director, OpenNebula
April 25, 2017
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2. OpenNebula.org
Project
Community
Product
Business

3. The Project
one
Private and Hybrid Cloud Made Simple

4. THE OPENNEBULA PROJECT
OUR COMMITMENT TO THE OPEN CLOUD
Openness
Run production-ready software that is
fully open-source without proprietary
extensions that lock you in
Reliability
Your cloud will run for years
with little maintenance
Flexibility
You can easily build a cloud to fit into
your data center and policies
Simplicity
You do not need an army of
administrators to build and
maintain your cloud
OpenNebula.org

5. OpenNebula.org
THE OPENNEBULA PROJECT
FIRST OPEN-SOURCE CLOUD MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

6. OpenNebula.org
THE OPENNEBULA PROJECT
FROM RESEARCH PROJECT TO OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT FOR ENTERPRISE
2005
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20142013
Research
Project
2015 2016
User-driven Open-source Project
OpenNebula.systems

7. Standards
Adopt
standards
Contribute to
standards
Open-source platform to
build Clouds and manage
data venter virtualization
Industry and Science
Requirements
Feedback
Contributions
Adopt
open-source
Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente 100K downloads and >1,500 clouds
Projects
Requirements for
innovative functionality
Adopt as innovation
and research platform
THE OPENNEBULA PROJECT
DIRECT CONTACT WITH REAL NEEDS

8. The Community
1,000 people registered at dev.opennebula

9. THE OPENNEBULA COMMUNITY
THE POWER OF USER-DRIVEN VENDOR-AGNOSTIC DEVELOPMENT
Develop
Open-source Apache code
Transparent process
Public roadmap
Communicate
User groups
Cloud technology days
OpenNebulaConf
Integrate
Add-ons catalog
Ecosystem directory
Use
Give us feedback
Contribute experiences
Help support new users
OpenNebula.org

10. CLOUD TECHDAYS IN 2017
EDUCATION EVENTS HOSTED BY USERS
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11. OpenNebula.org
2015 - Barcelona
2016 - Barcelona2014 - Berlin
2013 - Berlin 2017 – Boston
2017 – Madrid

12. The Product
The OS of the Cloud
Physical Storage Physical Machines Physical Networking
INFRASTRUCTURA FÍSICA
VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES
Cloud Management

13. THE OPENNEBULA PRODUCT
A TURNKEY SOLUTION TO BUILD CLOUDS AND DATA CENTER VIRTUALIZATION
LIGHT & SIMPLE
Lightweight and easy
to install, maintain,
operate, upgrade and
use
FLEXIBLE
Fully open-source and
customizable to fit
into any data center
and policies
ROBUST
Production-ready,
highly-scalable,
reliable and
supported
POWERFUL
Innovative
functionality for
private/hybrid clouds
and DC virtualization
ü Only one OpenNebula product distribution
ü Fully open-source, enterprise-ready
ü Delivered as a single, upgradable package
ü 83 releases in 9 years
OpenNebula.org

14. THE OPENNEBULA PRODUCT
DIRECT CONTACT WITH USERS AT EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESS
USER
COMMUNITY
SOFTWARE
MAINTENANCE
ROADMAP
DEFINITION
DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT
TESTING
INTEGRATION
PACKAGING
DELIVERY
3-month cycles

15. THE OPENNEBULA PRODUCT
FAST RELEASE CYCLE
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ü Bring rapid innovation to the market
ü Community support for the last stable release
… too fast for production deployments!

16. THE BUSINESS MODEL
COMMERCIAL SUPPORT SUBSCRIPTION
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ü Stability and long-term support
ü Tools to help operate OpenNebula clouds
ü 9x5 or 24x7 SLAs
ü Minor enhancement, product influence and hot fixes
ü Direct support from developers

17. THE BUSINESS MODEL
OTHER COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS
OpenNebula.org
Marketing-free technology
OpenNebula mainly invests its resources in
developing technology and serving its users, being
really vendor agnostic and free of marketing

18. Questions?
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