Cloud platform comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack

16.07.2012

There is no silver bullet, and even the best cloud platform (if any exists) can hardly satisfy all of the demands and use cases. For a particular type of business, you need to investigate all the factors involved, define your typical tasks, calculate the risks, allocate a budget, and compare it against the platforms' capabilities and license costs. It will be a compromise, any way you look at it. The thing is to make sure you have made the best possible choice in the very beginning.