Open Source Cloud Management Platforms: A Review

In the cloud computing paradigm, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers can provision virtualized hardware and resources to users, removing the need for users to own and operate these resources, which can lead to lower costs and improved performance. This paper gives a general description of most commonly used open source IaaS service platforms. It includes descriptions and comparisons of OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, Nimbus, OpenStack and CloudStack platforms, and it should be accessible to a wide audience.