In Pictures: 10 open source projects that power the Cloud

With recent negative reports from Gartner and Zenoss, it seems “dump on open source Cloud” season is open. For those quick to point the finger at some of these technologies that may not have the market share some expect, it would be good to remember that without open source, it would be difficult to have a Cloud at all.

Hadoop

The Big Daddy of Big Data, Hadoop seems to be everywhere. The Apache project boasts several different distributions, including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR. Big Data and Hadoop have attracted VC funding in the tens of millions, as well.

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