In July 2010 the StratusLab project conducted two surveys to collect requirements for the StratusLab cloud distribution and to understand the existing experience with virtualization/cloud technologies in Europe. Funded through the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), StratusLab is a two year project aimed to successfully integrate ‘cloud computing’ technologies into ‘grid’ infrastructures.
The survey results are presented in project deliverable D2.1 Review of the Use of Cloud and Virtualization Technologies in Grid Infrastructures. The project conducted two online surveys, one aimed at system administrators and the other at users. Over two-thirds of sysadmins, and over three-quarters of users surveyed intend to use cloud. Perhaps more surprisingly, over one third of both groups are already using cloud technologies right now. The most popular public clouds are Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine, while OpenNebula is the most popular open source tool for cloud computing management.
The StratusLab surveys have identified certain trends and requirements for cloud technologies among the Grid community that will be addressed to provide the first full cloud solution for grid and cluster computing. The StratusLab project aims to produce a toolkit to cloud-enable Grid infrastructures based on OpenNebula. The first version of its cloud computing distribution was released few weeks ago.
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