UPDATED 15:28 EDT / APRIL 25 2012

Linux Foundation’s CloudOpen Conference Bridging Open Source Cloud/Big Data Communities

The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the first-ever CloudOpen conference, a technical event designed to bridge the disparate communities that have gathered around open source cloud and big data projects. To give you an idea of what they have in mind, CloudOpen is sponsored by Canonical, Citrix, Dell, Eucalyptus, HP, IBM, Intel, OpenStack and SUSE, bringing all the major players in the space into one place.

CloudOpen will be held concurrently with LinuxCon North America 2012, which is going to be held in San Diego, CA from August 29-31. The program, designed for IT pros and software developers, is going to include technical dives into Chef, Gluster, Hadoop, KVM, Linux, oVirt, Puppet and Xen, among others. It seems pretty clear that CloudOpen is going out of its way not to favor any project over another.

A recent survey sponsored by the Linux Foundation found that 34 percent more organizations are migrating to the cloud, year-over-year. And of those users who have made a jump to the cloud, 66 percent are using Linux.

“Because Linux, open source software and collaborative development are the foundations of the cloud, it’s important to provide a vendor-neutral forum where those who are committed to openness can advance this work and users and industry can learn about ‘open’ as it is related to the cloud,” Linux Foundation VP of marketing and developer services Amanda McPherson said in a statement.

For proof of McPherson’s confidence in openness as the future of the cloud, one needs look no further than last week’s OpenStack conference, where a thousand developers and vendors gathered to hammer out the future of the platform. And of course, OpenStack isn’t even the only open source cloud platform project out there. And when it comes to big data, Apache Hadoop is pretty well established as the analytics engine for enterprise business intelligence, and the funding has followed.

The endgame here is pretty obvious. IT managers can get a real crash course in what open source can do for their cloud and big data strategies, while developers can get a better sense of user requirements. And more than that, maybe these developers can figure out how their respective projects can benefit each other in the cloud ecosystem to come.


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