{"id":1834,"date":"2013-07-05T08:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:58:48","slug":"cloud-platforms-open-source-or-proprietary-advantages-and-disadvantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/cloud-platforms-open-source-or-proprietary-advantages-and-disadvantages\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Platforms: Open Source or Proprietary \u2013 Advantages and Disadvantages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1835 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cloud-Platform-Open-Source-or-Proprietary-Software.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud Computing Platform\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cloud-Platform-Open-Source-or-Proprietary-Software.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Cloud-Platform-Open-Source-or-Proprietary-Software-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When it comes to choosing software for Personal Computer systems, we know we can easily choose between proprietary software and open source. The same applies to cloud platforms: which model is best suitable for your business?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In today\u2019s competitive market, cloud platforms like OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus are open-source alternatives to proprietary solutions for commercial businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These models provide many similar benefits that distinguish any open source program: community access, shared resources, rapid updates, and freedom to not be tied to the limits of the software owners. But, although a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/web-servers\/cloud-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cloud service providers<\/a> prefer to create their services on open-source platforms, while most opt for the model of proprietary platforms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Service providers in the cloud often find themselves more comfortable with well-known solutions, for example, those of \u201c<strong>VMware<\/strong>\u201d. That&#8217;s why the adoption of open platforms is still new and evolving slowly. A study conducted by TechTarget among 260 cloud service providers, showed that only 22 percent of service providers had adopted the OpenStack software.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are the advantages of each model that helps try to resolve the dilemma.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why proprietary solutions?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The vendors do all the work to test, develop, and integrate.<\/li>\n<li>The best-known solutions or relatives also facilitate the work of IT professionals, especially in smaller companies.<\/li>\n<li>Proprietary software includes the convenience of signing Service Level Agreements (SLAs).<\/li>\n<li>The evolving nature of open platforms can be challenging for a cloud provider, which does not have the resources to manage complicated technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The maintenance and updates are generally related to the owner of the software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Why open-source solutions?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>While it is true that its management is more complicated, it is also more flexible.<\/li>\n<li>Providers who opt for open source do not want to be tied to the designs of the companies that own, or that their customers depend on them.<\/li>\n<li>Control panels in self-service offering support are varied and many more configuration options.<\/li>\n<li>The licenses of proprietary solutions involve higher costs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it is not about radically opting for one side and discarding the other. As mature open-source solutions and IT professionals gain experience, we will be closer to a hybrid solution that provides the best of each. Also, the more demand evolves <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cloud providers<\/a> will need multiple technologies and platforms that give them support, and always adapt to the needs of their customers. And that&#8217;s where the solutions will gain hybrid space containing the best of each option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to choosing software for Personal Computer systems, we know we can easily choose between proprietary software and open source. The same applies to cloud platforms: which model is best suitable for your business? In today\u2019s competitive market, cloud platforms like OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus are open-source alternatives to proprietary solutions for commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,63],"tags":[488,486],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-cloud-hosting","tag-cloud-service-provider","tag-open-source-cloud-platform"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}