{"id":10519,"date":"2013-07-17T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2013-07-17T10:53:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T15:53:40","slug":"open-source-iaas-software-offering-a-real-alternative-to-commercial-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10519","title":{"rendered":"Open Source IaaS Software offering a real alternative to commercial clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>With commercial cloud systems, there is no investment in hardware required. This enables start-up businesses to easily test out a new business idea. Whilst commercial cloud services are popular, they charge for CPU usage by the hour, storage, and bandwidth consumed. In a large organization, where many users need to be served, it may be cheaper to purchase hardware to create a private cloud. This article showcases the finest open source projects that provide a key alternative for those who wish to avoid using a commercially provided cloud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxlinks.com\/article\/20130715151031765\/IaaS.html\">Open Source IaaS Software offering a real alternative to commercial clouds &#8211; Linux Links &#8211; The Linux Portal Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With commercial cloud systems, there is no investment in hardware required. This enables start-up businesses to easily test out a new business idea. Whilst commercial cloud services are popular, they charge for CPU usage by the hour, storage, and bandwidth &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[67,704,223,107],"class_list":["post-10519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-cloud-computing","tag-iaas","tag-openstack","tag-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}