{"id":862,"date":"2012-09-15T21:12:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T21:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomp.ch\/?p=862"},"modified":"2012-09-15T21:12:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T21:12:02","slug":"in-quest-of-the-open-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhaw.ch\/icclab\/in-quest-of-the-open-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"In Quest of the “Open Cloud” (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A remarkable and wonderful feature of Zurich is its vivid computer science and technology community. Hardly any week passes without an interesting event around new\u00a0innovations\u00a0and technologies, like the Internet of Things<\/a>, novel programming languages (Go<\/a>, etc), security<\/a>, and of course Cloud Computing technologies (e.g. MongoDB<\/a>) [footnote1].\u00a0Particularly interesting – from our \/ ICCLab<\/a> perspective – is the ZhGeeks<\/a>\u00a0(@zhgeeks<\/a>)\u00a0community, run by one of our fellow technology and cloud evangelists Muharem<\/a>.\u00a0Last weeks Zhgeeks meeting was about Open Cloud<\/a> and no less prominent figure than Samj<\/a> was about to update us on the Open Cloud Initiative<\/a>. A truly inspiring talk \u00a0(download slides<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding of Sam’s comprehensive and sound introduction into the world of “Cloud Openness” (from an OCI perspective) I can’t help but have to ask myself –\u00a0hellya, what is this Open Cloud thing?<\/p>\n

So let’s see what the universal oracle has to tell<\/a>\u00a0[footnote2].\u00a0And here we go. “Open Clouds” all over; what a surprise. So again, what is it then?<\/p>\n

Indeed, this is an interesting question if you bet on CC, either as adopter, contributor, or simply user. As Sam summed it up, “Open Cloud is about technology openness such that the market can drive it’s evolution”, reflecting the OCI definition and principles<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Open Cloud<\/em>\u00a0must<\/strong>\u00a0meet the following requirements:<\/p>\n