New Open Source Effort Provides Free Cloud Orchestration as a Service
July 31, 2014
Grazed from Linux.com. Author: Katherine Noyes.
Orchestration can bring benefits to many parts of IT, but its potential may well be greatest of all in the highly complex world of cloud computing. While there are numerous cloud orchestration tools available today — both proprietary and open source — a new contender recently emerged that aims to provide a universal and open source solution.
Specifically, GoGrid-sponsored OpenOrchestration.org hopes to advance the open data services ecosystem with a free orchestration service, software library and community. Essentially, the effort aims to do for entire clouds what virtualization did for servers by delivering a range of complex, “full-stack” solutions. Users, in turn, can then easily deploy complex applications in a single cloud, across multiple clouds, on-premises or any combination in between…
Designed in part to deliver an alternative to proprietary offerings such as Amazon Web Services, the effort taps GoGrid’s existing orchestration engine technology and has already delivered a library of big data software solutions, with many more to come. “GoGrid is launching and sponsoring the site because orchestrated solutions are a necessary evolution of the marketplace in the face of dominance by one or two large commodity cloud services," said GoGrid CEO John Keagy…
Read more from the source @ https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/782403-new-open-source-effort-provides-free-cloud-orchestration-as-a-service/