Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms (March 2010)

- This whitepaper chronicles the real-life implementation of an open source private cloud within a high-performance data center. Intended for Cloud Service Providers, Hosters, and other IT professionals looking to build their own cloud infrastructures, this paper discusses driving forces (e.g., lowering IT operational costs and increasing resource scalability), cloud architecture, hardware specifications, and the actions performed to install, configure, and operate the cloud.

Cloud Computing and Open Source: IT Climatology is Born (March 2010)

- This whitepaper discusses the importance of open-source in providing an “on-premise” cloud architecture capable of delivering the efficiency gains of a self-provisioned virtualized infrastructure, while facilitating (through transparency and adaptability) the control, security, and quick remediation requirements so critical to enterprise IT.

Five Steps to Enterprise Cloud Computing (February 2010)

- This whitepaper discusses the use of cloud computing in the enterprise data center, the potential friction points associated with the adoption of cloud computing and steps to take to initiate the development of an enterprise “private cloud” as an IT optimizing technology.