Clouds are all about APIs

Mårten Mickos

CEO, Eucalyptus Systems

3 bn

15 bn

cloud

stand

ards?

SaaS

PaaS

IaaS

Rent Buy

App

Middle-

ware

System

SW

By 2014, 75% of

the Fortune 1000

will have APIs.

Gartner

3 approaches to on-prem IaaS

CLOUD

APPROACH

DATACENTER

APPROACH

SERVICE PROVIDER

APPROACH

IaaS

Eucalyptus is the world’s most

widely deployed

private cloud

software platform.

25,000 clouds

A common set of APIs

National Institute of Standards and Technology in Apr 2012

There are many cloud products in the market place,

but NIST has determined Eucalyptus Enterprise

Edition is the only IaaS cloud management software

currently on the market that is built open source and

supports private and public cloud infrastructure.

CLIENT/SERVER

Scale-up

Closed source

Monolithic binaries

WEB

Scale-out

Open source

Stacks & distros

New paradigms

CLOUD

Multi-scale

APIs

Images in clouds

Cloud motives

•Agility

•Automation

•Elasticity

•Utilization & economy

How many alternative standards?

How many competing APIs?

Cloud

users

Cloud

provi-

ders

Cloud

sw ven-

dors

API

The API frees the apps

• Cloud means APIs

• Common APIs allow application workloads to move

• Popular APIs create ecosystems around them

• In Eucalyptus, you get the dominant cloud API implemented as free and open source software

Thank you!

Mårten Mickos

marten@eucalyptus.com

Twitter @martenmickos