Abstract: As the development direction of next-generation Internet, cloud computing has become a very popular field in both industry and academia. In promoting the informatization of universities, building their own cloud platform plays a very important role. In many cloud computing technologies, Apache VCL and VMware vCloud Director are maturate technologies in building cloud platform for online resources application. In this paper, we introduced the architecture and application of the open source cloud platform: Apache VCL and commercial cloud platform: VMware vCloud Director in detail. And we made a deep comparison between them in theory, network architecture, and security and so on. At last, we gave some suggestions on building cloud platform for universities.
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Key words: cloud computing, cloud platform, Apache VCL, vCloud, network architecture