OpenNebula is an **enterprise-ready solution**, [[#Featured Organizations Using OpenNebula|widely used in research and industry to build and manage clouds and virtualized data centers]], and a **powerful open platform for innovation**, [[#Featured International Projects Using OpenNebula|used in many international projects to research the challenges that arise in enterprise cloud and data center management]].
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====== Enterprise Private Clouds and Datacenter Virtualization ======
Many leading organizations use OpenNebula as an infrastructure management tool for building enterprise private clouds to simplify and optimize data center virtualization. These enterprise-class clouds provide access to a security-rich, flexible environment for production workloads to help reduce costs, shorten cycle times for faster time to market and improve quality.
====== Hosting and Cloud Service Providers ======
OpenNebula is widely used as an infrastructure provisioning tool to build hosting and public cloud services. OpenNebula enables elastic, flexible, multi-tenant cloud environments customized to offer infrastructure as a service or to engine software and platform as a service clouds.
====== Clouds for HPC and Science ======
OpenNebula is the most widely used cloud management platform to build high performance computing and science clouds for hosting virtualized computing and data processing environments and for providing users with new innovative "HPC as a service" resource provisioning models. These HPC optimized clouds provide access to flexible scientific and technical computing to solve complex problems and drive innovation in Science, Engineering, Manufacturing and Analytics.
====== Cloud Integrators and Product Developers ======
OpenNebula encourages and supports innovation in the development of new cloud products. There are many examples of how its use lowers the barriers for new and existing ICT players to create their own cloud offerings. We also include here the IT integrators that use open source technology because it lets them innovate and customize them as needed.
====== Featured International Projects Using OpenNebula ======
OpenNebula is being used as reference open source cloud stack in several international initiatives where the **world leading industrial and academic organizations** are addressing research and technology challenges in enterprise-class cloud computing management such as cloud federation, energy efficiency, VM scheduling, Grid on Cloud, standardization... or are evaluating the Cloud computing model in order to support scientific and educational projects.
