Today’s public cloud is dominated by a small number of massive clouds each operated and controlled by a single provider. Each of these public clouds has adopted a variety of techniques to maximize incompatibility and lock customers into their cloud.
For the last three years, the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) has been developing and deploying an Open Cloud Exchange (OCX): an alternative model of a cloud where many stakeholders, rather than just a single provider, participate in implementing and operating the cloud. We’ll describe what we have learned about secure hardware sharing and how a large-scale open cloud based on OpenStack can work, and discuss some of the significant use cases for an open cloud, namely: a true CD for open-source projects, an ecosystem of cloud services, and a public platform for AI development.
- What an Open Cloud Exchange is
- What we have learned about secure hardware sharing and how a large-scale open cloud could work
- Some of the significant use cases: True CD for open-source projects, an ecosystem of cloud services, and a public platform for AI development
