Pros & Cons of open source cloud computing

Open-source cloud frameworks have made a major splash in recent months with big players such as Rackspace/NASA, Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Citrix backing major open-source cloud initiatives like OpenStack and CloudStack.

eWEEK has assembled a slide show based on information from Floyd Strimling, technical evangelist at Austin, Texas-based Zenoss—a provider of unified IT operations software for physical, virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructure to examine the pros and cons of deploying an open-source cloud for an enterprise of any size.