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Who Is Using OpenNebula?

The OpenNebula Project publishes a list of featured users
By Ignacio M. Llorente
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April 16, 2011 12:00 PM EDT
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There are more than 100 downloads of OpenNebula per day from its download site, and there have been more than 50,000 downloads since the project released its first version in March 2008. Additionally, the code can be also downloaded from its software repository and from the several commercial and open-source distributions embedding this leading technology for cloud management.

Some weeks ago the OpenNebula project started an initiative to create a list of organizations using OpenNebula. This ended up being more difficult than they expected given that many of their main users in the private industry, which are running very large scale infrastructures with thousands of nodes or even with datacenter federation, did not allow the project to include their names on the list. The reason behind this is that cloud computing is a strategy move for most of these companies.

In spite of this, the project has finally created a nice list of featured users from different industries that include Hosting Providers, Telecom Operators, IT Service Providers, Banking, Government,Professional Services, Supercomputing Centers and Research Centers. The list is not complete, the project is still trying to confirm some information.

Published April 16, 2011 – Reads 3,319
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Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor (Catedratico) in Computer Architecture and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Group at UCM, and Chief Executive Advisor and co-founder of the C12G Labs technology start-up. He held several appointments as independent IT expert for the European Commission and several companies and national governments; and consultant positions at ICASE NASA Langley and Sun Microsystems. Prof. Llorente is one of the pioneers and world's leading authorities on Cloud Computing. He has served on several Groups of Experts on Cloud Computing convened by international organizations, such as the European Commission and the World Economic Forum, and has contributed to several Cloud Computing panels and roadmaps. He is the Director of the OpenNebula Open-Source Project and participates in the main European projects in Cloud Computing. He founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on Open Cloud Computing Interface. Prof. Llorente has given many keynotes and invited talks in the main international events in cloud computing, and has contributed to several cloud computing panels and roadmaps.