cloudstack is a cloud orchestration toolset/api that supports multi-tenant cloud provisioning & services. it appears to be a fairly complete architecture but is also in a transitional phase as they try to implement support for further cloud hypervisor environments.
They are contributing to OpenStack and from what I understand will include OpenStack as an component of CloudStack's future development.
Here's a good writeup & summary:
http://cloudstack.org/blog/cloudstack-the-best-kept-secret-in-cloud-computing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+open-source-cloud-computing+(CloudStack%3A+Head+in+the+Clouds)&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

Microsoft is so far behind in cloud/virtualization that they'll have to start paying people to use 365. What's the old saying... "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" The "cloud" has very rapidly evolved and Open Source is a gigantic force there. Look at AWS EC2 and just check how many AMI's are linux based...

My search shows of ALL AMI's on EC2

-- only 820 are Windows
-- 5,762 are Linux (ubuntu, debian, redhat, centos etc)

Since AWS is by far the largest IaaS Public Cloud ... what does that tell you about what's being adopted in "cloud"

As an IaaS it is YOUR responsibility to design security etc into YOUR servers on EC2. I think the title of this thread is misleading in that it makes it sound like AWS is at fault for implementation of someone's poor practices. "Amazon's Cloud is Full of Holes" That's like saying Intel's processor's are Full of Holes because people do stupid things using machines that have them.

So just one more reason why people will leave IE behind ... when they find out that there are tons of websites they won't be able to watch videos from in the future.

why do people keep saying -- "anybody concerned with security and privacy will most likely not touch it with a 10-foot pole."

In ANY IaaS SP's architecture its up to the organization that utilizes that IaaS cloud to implement security ... just as they would have to do if it was their own datacenter.

If you do a crappy job with firewall, access lists, user accounts/password mgmt etc in the IaaS cloud you would probably do the same crappy job in your own datacenter.

Over just the past few weeks there have been any number of company's that have been hacked ... in their own datacenters.

Poor security implementation no matter were its at always is susceptible to failure & breaches.

Now if some company say.. Dropbox... does a poor job implementing their security process/policies on AWS... its not AWS's fault for that it would be DropBox's responsiblity. Those servers in an IaaS are configured BY those customers NOT the IaaS Service Provider.

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look at the technology being used in projects like Linux4Afrika. Although I don't think they are using OLPC they have been doing a great job and really utilizing low cost technology.

And as for Indonesian Web Design education & classes...
It appears from the Directory Indonesian Web Designers) website that they have a growing industry.

Back to OLPC. I think one big problem being solved by OLPC is that in some of these regions are so incredibly large in population. China and India alone have a huge job ahead to educate the hundreds of millions of children. Let alone continuously educate millions of teachers for those kids. And finally connect the teachers to those kids over such large geographically dispersed areas.

Any solution to be developed had to be inexpensive enough to scale to vast numbers of children that have to be reached out to.

Will their Internet be the same experience as someone Japan etc. No, probably not.
But perhaps their internet (note the little "i") may allow Teachers to help educate more kids spread over greater geographic areas.
Wireless technologies are big in these areas because they often don't have any existing communications infrastructure.
The ARM processor choice is also great. Very low power.

Here are my thoughts from an end-user in a Fortune 50 company.
Most people don't have any understanding of technology and all they want is:
- ability to type in a message
- ability to send it
- ability to get mail
- ability to read it
- ability to forward it
- ability to filter into separate "boxes" upon reception
- ability to print, cut&paste etc
Whether it occurs on Outlook/Exchange or Gmail or something else wouldn't faze them a bit. A hillarious statement that proves my point:
with nearly 80,000 employees, when an errant email goes out and someone sends a REPLY TO ALL with
"Please Unscribe Me "
as the text in their message.
What happens next is the Sunnami... from the technically illiterate (don't get me wrong here, I'm illiterate in areas outside my expertise)
There soon follows hundreds (sometimes several thousand) of duplicates from others asking "Please Unscribe Me"
My point is that in most company's people do not care what technology is used as long as its easy to understand, easy to learn, easy to use.
reliability ... for email in my opinion is overblown unless you talk about hours a day.
If something is that important ... pick up the damn phone and call the person.... geez that's what's wrong with business today.

Most SPs don't have local competition ... or at least much of it and because of that consumers are stuck with whatever they can get.
When they can explain how South Korea, Taiwan, Japan etc all have 50-100Mbps edge links to consumers... in the U.S. we seem stuck around 10Mbps. There's really no excuse for this.
The SPs already discriminate traffic where/when they can... look at Bittorrent traffic. Comcast and others regularly limit torrent traffic.
If the SPs take it a step further.. what can we expect? Video from Providers NOT affiliated (paying off) your SP may just appear to have crappy video. A VoIP service (skype, etc) may just not have quite the voice quaility it could have because its being QoS throttled by the SP who may have its own voice service.
With limited competition if Net Neutrality doesn't stand then the U.S. is going to fall further and further behind the rest of the world and the rest of our competition.

I've been using several Plug computers from globalscale: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit-us.aspx
They've been fairly amazing in what you can do with them. For linux users they are quick and easy to setup.
Mine came with Ubuntu preinstalled so logging in and updating or adding new software from the Ubuntu repositories was simple.
The geek in me took 3 of these, added 3-500G mini-USB drives, and a couple other little low cost gems of technology called Open-Mesh wireless see: https://www.open-mesh.com/store/categories.php?category=Lowest%252dCost-Mesh

• 3 My Open-Mesh boxes cost..... $45 each
• 3 Plug computers were.............. $100 each
• 3 Mini USB 500G drives were.... $110 each
• Total ~$750.00

I made one of the plugs my apache server, another the Samba storage and the 3rd for various uses including Ubuntu Desktop I could log into and manage everything from a GUI. I have all my music/video's in my house coming through these now.
It all fit in a large shoe-box. Total cost was Less than $750. Total power consumption: Less than 35 watts.
The Open-Mesh is managed via a browser and uses Google Map to show/diagram/locate your Open-Mesh network (if it was ever dispersed over a larger area ... like a shopping center etc) and it will send you sms and/or email if there is ever a network problem such as congestion, an open-mesh goes offline or down etc
It actually works pretty well. But it showed me how much possibility these little devices have.