Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud Free Software

Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud Free Software in very easy steps. FOSS-Cloud has own documented website and the software supports various features. We wrote about vCider before for Virtual Private Cloud, but this FOSS-Cloud software is actually more advanced and gives more control. We found FOSS-Cloud from Source Forge while uploading our own developed application, it is an accidental discovery and worth writing about it. This Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud article is not a guide or tutorial, it is an introduction.

Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud : Introduction

FOSS-Cloud is actually not so unknown name, at least should not be – IBM Switzerland is System Integrator for the FOSS-Cloud. For some reasons, it is probably less known the End users, at least for now. You can check to Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud Free Software at their official webpage :

Google’s attempt for implementation of newer Schema.org and as heard to go for devaluation of Wikipedia in SERP will probably sanitize the search results within a year. The reason to mention this, while writing on the article to build your own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud is, searching with related keywords actually returns valueless topics of Wikipedia. Thanks should go to Source Forge, GitHub, Google Projects like Open Source repositories, for whom we can discover and inform our readers about their existence.

We have not tested FOSS-Cloud, this is an screenshot from their Source Forge project.

Build Your Own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud : The Points You Must Know

You can install FOSS-Cloud over many Operating System versions including Ubuntu. Actually it is a Bare Metal setup. You can do Single Node Installation or Multi-Node Installation. Single Node installation is quite easy, you will find the guides to build your own Private Cloud with FOSS-Cloud on their official website :

For FOSS-Cloud, there is only one virtualization layer unlike Open Stack, which actually makes a virtualization over virtualization, this factor makes Open Stack to have more system requirement than FOSS-Cloud. Although, except the word Private Cloud, they actually can not be compared.