Cirrus Open - a data-center on a disk

[Bill Stewart]

Open source, Ubuntu a leading example, has always been a better
solution, but, for most people, just never practically accessible.
Should it be, widely accessible?  Yes, for capability, security, and
sustainability reasons.  The larger the ecosystem, the more vibrant the
software.  Everyone should use it, for everyone, and for open source.
It is important for society as a whole, and more important all the time.

If you could make it all available online - hosted, in the cloud - and
access it anywhere on any device, the accessibility barrier would
dissolve.  Unfortunately right now, other than a few hosted Web apps,
there is no widespread open source player, and the cloud market is being
stomped by the largest proprietary companies, with all the downsides of
fractured capability, lost security, and cost of sustainment.  

How can FOSS solve this better?  By using its strength - unrestricted
freedom to code - to build a full-stack, premium Intranet better than
most onsite, and simply put it online with virtual desktops.  If you can
parameterize that complete Intranet for replication - provide a new
domain and automatically build a new one in about an hour - then it's
drop in applications time, and any FOSS that can run on Linux is
instantly available online anywhere.  With single-sign-on from a virtual
desktop.  That blows away all the fractured Web app solutions, and
finally provides real security and long-term sustainability.  

To help, we got Cirrus Open down to one IP address, so almost anyone can
use it.  If you have a disk, a domain, and an IP address, you can use it
yourself locally, and, with a click, create clouds for others - complete
SME solutions available anywhere.  Any machine with 8 GB RAM or more
works fine as a server.

The first FOSS full-stack cloud.  Completely instrumented with Nagios.
We need help giving it away.  Feel free to set up your own, for your
organization or others.  And please let me know anything I can do to
help you at all:

    https://wiki.cirrusopen.org/index.php/Development

Cheers,
Bill

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Bill Stewart
wstewart at cirruscomputing.com
CEO Cirrus Computing
Maintainer FreeOpenSourceSoftware.org
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