Author : Mahak

With the development of parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, a new computing model appeared, called cloud computing. The basic principles of cloud computing is to make the computing be assigned in a great number of distributed computers, rather then local computer or remoter server. Now many corporations have involved in the cloud computing related techniques and many cloud computing platforms have been put forward. In this paper analyzed and comparison of various open source cloud platforms and comparison of various cloud platforms with implementation aspects. From the comparison of these platforms, users can better understand the different cloud platforms and more reasonability choose what they want.

Keywords: Cloud Computing, Cloud Platforms, Virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.2 (April-2017)