The Free Cloud Alliance (FCA) is a non-profit organization whose members are open source software publishers in cloud computing. FCA activities include disseminating open source cloud computing knowledge and research. FCA members operate solutions in various countries and provide infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). The FCA website provides an open source solutions catalog and guidelines for assessing cloud solutions and suppliers. FCA members offer production-ready solutions across storage, coordination, and other areas.

1. Free Cloud Alliance (FCA)
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
BS2
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TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
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2. Mission Critical Cloud Solutions
Nexedi Slapgrid preview Coordination & Billing
Distributed Cloud Engine
Linbit DRBD production Storage
Network Block Storage
Mandriva XS2 release Storage
Distributed POSIX Storage
Nexedi NS2 release Storage
Transactionnal Storage
IELO NiftyName + BS2 production Storage & IaaS
Virtual Data Center
TioLive TioLive production PaaS & SaaS
ERP/CRM/KM/e-Business
production SaaS
Demotera AtikTeam SLAP
TioLive
Project Management NiftyName
NEO
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

3. Guidelines for the Cloud
● Open Source Solutions Catalog
● IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
● Storage / Coordination
● Cloud Revertability Assessment
● Software Freedom
● Data Freedom
● Competi tion Freedom
● Cloud Supplier Assessment
www.freecloudalliance.org
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

4. Latest News
● Largest Customer Support Application
in Ireland
● Beteireflow
● 300 concurrent users
● Linbit joins FCA
● Demotera joins FCA
www.freecloudalliance.org/news
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

5. FCA Storage Solutions
XS2 POSIX Storage
global
BS2 Block Storage
high performance
NS2 Object Storage
transactional
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

6. FCA PaaS General Purpose
3 days customization SLAP
NiftyName
TioLive
NEO
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved
All Through The Web XS2
BS2

7. Demo 1: NiftyName
http://www.niftyname.org/doc/zigui-video-tutorial/
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

8. Demo 2: SLAPGRID
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd7fy8_tiolive-grid-demo_tech SLAP
TioLive
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2

9. Welcome info@freecloudalliance.org
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
BS2
XS2
YOU?
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
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10. FCA 2010-05 1
Free Cloud Alliance (FCA)
TioLive
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NEO
NiftyName
BS2
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TioLive
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NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
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The Free Cloud Alliance (FCA) is a non profit organization which members are
software publishers in the field of open source cloud computing. FCA activities
include dissemination of Open Source Cloud Computing knowledge, Open Source
Cloud Computing Research. FCA members believe in Software Freedom and in
Information Freedom.

11. FCA 2010-05 2
Mission Critical Cloud Solutions
Nexedi Slapgrid preview Coordination & Billing
Distributed Cloud Engine
Linbit DRBD production Storage
Network Block Storage
Mandriva XS2 release Storage
Distributed POSIX Storage
Nexedi NS2 release Storage
Transactionnal Storage
IELO NiftyName + BS2 production Storage & IaaS
Virtual Data Center
TioLive TioLive production PaaS & SaaS
ERP/CRM/KM/e-Business
production SaaS
Demotera AtikTeam SLAP
TioLive
Project Management NiftyName
NEO
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
FCA Members are Demotera, IEOLO, Linbit, Mandriva, Nexedi and TioLive. FCA
members operate in Austria, Brazil, France, Japan, Sénégal and Austria.
Most solutions of FCA members are production ready and designed based on
customer requirements.
For example, AtikTeam software by Demotera is a SaaS service which provides
online project management. It is used by 300 companies including universities such
as ParisTech or government agencies such as DREAL PACA.
Sadly, AtikTeam is not yet available in English. Demotera hopes that the Free Cloud
Alliance will help AtikTeam to become international. So, if someone wants to start a
SaaS business arround project management, write to info@freecloudalliance.org.
This is the power of Open Source Cloud: everyone is Free to reuse our solutions and
compete with our members.
TioLive ERP/CRM has more than 8,000 companies registered. IELO hosts the largest
provider of adult video in Europe.
And, Linbit, a new member of FCA, recently got its technology accepted in Linux
kernel. Congratulation!
Some solutions of FCA have been released recently and start to be used in
production. This is the case of NEO storage server by Nexedi and XtreemFS created
by Zuse Institute Berlin and which is commercialy supported by Mandriva.

12. FCA 2010-05 3
Guidelines for the Cloud
● Open Source Solutions Catalog
● IaaS / PaaS / SaaS
● Storage / Coordination
● Cloud Revertability Assessment
● Software Freedom
● Data Freedom
● Competi tion Freedom
● Cloud Supplier Assessment
www.freecloudalliance.org
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
FCA has a web site: www.freecloudalliance.org
This web site provides information about open source cloud computing solution
thanks to an online catalog. You can find there solutions of FCA members but also
solutions from other providers and alliances. For example, Java technologies
provided by OW2 consortium are listed in the catalog. Fee free to contribute to it.
FCA provides guidelines to assess Cloud Computing solutions and Cloud Computing
vendors.
Our guideline on Cloud revertability can be used to assess whether a Cloud
Computing provider gives you access to all the information which a company needs
to “escape” from a Cloud Computing provider, and thus to reduce risks of lock-in. It
is based on the “TIO Libre” (tio.ffii.org) definition created in 2008 by a group of
experts of FFII. In short, if you subscribe to a service, can you get back your data
including access logs (Data Freedom), get back the source code which you need to
run the same application (Software Freefom) and ask a different provider to host it
(Competition Freedom).
FFII was for example the leader of the successful campaign in Europe to prevent
software patents from stiffling innovation. FFII won at the European Parliament
against the largest proprietary companies. So, if FFII approves “TIO Libre”
guidelines, it really means that those guidelines protect you against anti-
competitive lock-ins.

13. FCA 2010-05 4
Latest News
● Largest Customer Support Application
in Ireland
● Beteireflow
● 300 concurrent users
● Linbit joins FCA
● Demotera joins FCA
www.freecloudalliance.org/news
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
FCA web site also has some news. So, please subscribe to it through RSS for
example.
Among recent news, TioLive, an FCA member, just succeeded the implementation of
the largest customer support application in Ireland for the M50 highway. With 300
concurrent users and millions of documents or transactions, it is the proof tha open
source Cloud can be used in the Enterprise for mission critical applications in the
field of ERP or CRM.
Other news: Linbit has joined FCA. This is a great news. It also shows the diversity of
FCA in terms of solutions: python based, ruby based, java based and.... plain C
based. FCA has no religion on languages and technologies as long as they work.
Other news: Demotera with Atikteam. It is really a great SaaS for project
management. Many users of proprietary project mengement SaaS should have a
look at it. I even found recently that the sofyware which Atikteam is based on,
Redmine, is being used by Airbus.

14. FCA 2010-05 5
FCA Storage Solutions
XS2 POSIX Storage
global
BS2 Block Storage
high performance
NS2 Object Storage
transactional
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
Let us go into some detail about FCA solutions.
Storage is one of the most important point in Cloud. There is a theorem in computer
science, the CAP theorem, which says that you can not get everything at once in a
storage solution: availability, consistency and partitioning. This is why FCA has
diverse solutions, since to universal solution can exist.
XtreemFS is a good solution to spread files all over the world with a unique POSIX
interface. It supports network disconnection. It supports Linux and Windows.
Mandriva, supports commercial implementations of XtreemFS.
Linbit DRBD is a great way to build a high performance redundant storage server.
IEOLO uses DRBD as one of the storage backend component in NiftyName, so that
storages are replicated on the same site and on different sites. Consider DRBD as
the equivalent of a software SAN at the core of Linux kernel.
Nexedi's NEO is a transactional distributed storage system. Compared to XtreemFS,
it provides transactions and consistency but can not (yet) be used very efficiently
over wide area networks.

15. FCA 2010-05 6
FCA PaaS General Purpose
3 days customization SLAP
NiftyName
TioLive
NEO
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved
All Through The Web XS2
BS2
TioLive, a general purpose PaaS part of FCA solutions, can be used to create SaaS
services very quickly. TioLive includes all the standard design patterns and business
workflows of an ERP or a CRM. It also includes a skinning engine and a gadget
engine.
Creating a custom application can be achieved entirely through the Web by
configuring dialogs, workflows and adding scripts. In the above example, the
standard TioLive was customized by a group of bachelor students in 3 days to
cerate a CRM application which was inspired by a famous CRM SaaS.
So, if bachelor students can create in 3 days such an application “All Through The
Web”, it means that TioLive can be also used to provide to all divisions and
subsidiaries of large company a consistent, a Web based environment, which they
can user for ERP, for CRM, for business applications and which they quickly
customize to their local needs.

16. FCA 2010-05 7
Demo 1: NiftyName
http://www.niftyname.org/doc/zigui-video-tutorial/
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
Let us now have a look at our first demo.
We will show you how to create a virtual machine, a virtual storage and a virtual
network. What is great with NiftyName is its performance, and its simplicity. Source
code of NiftyName is only a few thousand lines. But you'll see, it does so much. And
the performance is definitely the best on the market with true redundancy of
storage, network and virtual machines, as well as with support of hybrid clouds
consisting of a combination of hardware servers and virtual machines.

17. FCA 2010-05 8
Demo 2: SLAPGRID
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd7fy8_tiolive-grid-demo_tech SLAP
TioLive
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
Let us have a look at our second demo. This could be the future of the Cloud:
decentralized.
You'll see in this video that we could all become in the very close future cloud
computing providers by connecting a server at home. Distributed Cloud Computing
combines economies of scale typical of Cloud environments and cancels the Law of
diminishing returns.
In short, it is as cheap to manage, but much cheaper for electricity, cooling,
location, network. And it can resist much better to incidents because it is really
distributed in thousands of houses or micro-datacenters.

18. FCA 2010-05 9
Welcome info@freecloudalliance.org
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
BS2
XS2
YOU?
TioLive
SLAP
NEO
NiftyName
© The TIO Libre Initiative 2010 – All rights reserved BS2
XS2
If your company believes in Software Freedom, if you have created a great Free
Software which helps creating a Free Cloud, you are welcome. FCA welcome friends
and enemies. FCA welcomes partners and competitors. FCA believes that diversity
is required to build a Strong, Reliable, Free and Competitive Cloud.
FCA also welcomes associate members, which did not create Free Software for the
Cloud, but would like to support Free Software for the Cloud, either through their
business or through their leisure. As long as you believe in Software Freedom, you
are welcome.