The effects of maturation of the Cloud computing market on Open source cloud computing infrastructure projects

Since its rise in around year 2008, “Cloud computing” has become a staple buzzword for large business users and scholarly institutions, and has even succeeded in achieving mindshare and penetration into the consumer culture. The technologies and ideas behind it have become applied, though with varying rates of success, and the initial enthusiasm has given way to practical considerations. This trend can be directly observed from comparing the current state of Open source cloud computing projects with their past state. In this paper we present an overview of how Open source cloud computing landscape has changed in the last three years.