What Can OpenStack Adopt from a Ganeti-Based Open-Source IaaS?

Cloud computing is becoming a widely adopted paradigm for the provision of different types of ICT services. Building on a set of combined technologies, it enables service provision following on-demand usage patterns. Different vendors aim at addressing the needs of private and public large and small organizations. To this end, several solutions have been developed tackling varying service, platform and infrastructure needs. In this paper, we present the outcomes of our experimentation with respect to two open-source infrastructure-level solutions, namely OpenStack and Synnefo which have attracted the attention both of the research community and of the industrial one. The goal of our qualitative and quantitative survey and experimentation is to identify shortcomings and areas for improvement in the widely adopted OpenStack project.