Technical Requirements for Launching an Infrastructure Cloud

Keywords: Infrastructure, cloud computing
Authors: Sheng Liang, CEO, VMOps Inc.
Abstract:
Infrastructure cloud computing services such as Amazon EC2, are rapidly gaining acceptance in the market. These services benefit both end-users and service providers. The end-users only pay for the amount of resources they use and can easily scale up as their needs grow. Service providers, on the other hand, can utilize virtualization technology to increase hardware utilization and simplify management.

Today, organizations who are interested in launching an elastic computing cloud service face the difficult task of integrating complex software and hardware components from multiple vendors to make a cloud possible.. The resulting system is expensive to build and hard to operate.

In this presentation we will discuss key requirments to launching an elastic computing cloud service on commodity hardware. Including a discussion of avaialble hypervisors, cloud management requirements, cloud APIs, and user interface options.