If you want to start your own Cloud Services, starting from some most popular open source projects is a good idea! Even they are open source based, some of the projects are extremely popular and reliable that already being used by thousands of enterprise to construct intranet cloud servers and cloud storage all over the world.
- Building Public or Private Cloud with Open Stack - http://www.openstack.org
- Java based Open Source Cloud Management Platform – http://cloudstack.org
- Eucalyptus Cloud Computing Software - http://www.eucalyptus.com
- Open Source VM Management System - http://www.opennebula.org
- Ubuntu Cloud Computing - http://www.ubuntu.com/business/cloud/overview
No doubt, the best choice is OpenStack Open Source system!
In a recently survey, 73% business manager are considering OpenStack deployment with 40% of that group planning to be operational with 12 months. The reason? 47% is about the cost and 46 is about avoiding vendor lock-in.
Also the survey told us that 44% of respondents like the most of the object storage feature (code name Swift) , followed by feature of compute (code name Nova) at 43%, and then Network Connectivity (code name Quantum) at 40%, plus the Dashboard feature at 40% as well.