Eucalyptus Now Supports Windows Virtual Machines
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source academic project now shaking the private cloud market, has taken another step to go deep in the enterprise cloud market (See Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus here). Last year, I wrote a post about the release of Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition and I pointed out how it makes interoperability between [...]
Groundwork Open Source Getting Ready For Private Clouds
Image via CrunchBase Recently I wrote about Groundwork Open Source, an enterprise level network monitoring tool built on top of Nagios. Today I am hearing that they are preparing themselves to target enterprises who are using private clouds. They are pretty close to offering a monitoring solution for Eucalyptus clouds. We all know that Eucalyptus [...]
Eucalyptus Systems Changes CEO – What’s Next?
Image via Wikipedia On Friday, Eucalyptus Systems, the open source software powering the private clouds in the enterprises, announced that the former CEO of MySQL AB, Mårten Mickos, has taken over as CEO of Eucalyptus Systems replacing Woody Rollins who will now be their CFO. This has taken the entire industry by surprise. I am [...]
Eucalyptus Shakes Up Cloud Interoperability Scene
Eucalyptus Systems, the open source cloud computing project that graduated from the hallways of academia to industry few months back, is back in news again (Cloud Ave’s previous coverage of Eucalyptus is here and here. You can also listen to Paul Miller’s podcast here.). This time, they have made an announcement and its repercussions can [...]
Nature's Attack On Amazon And The Instance Vs Fabric Debate
Image via Wikipedia Last week, a lightning strike rendered part of Amazon EC2 belonging to a single zone cutoff from the real world. I don’t want to go into whether it is an outage or not debate but towards a different kind of debate. Ever since Cloud Computing started gaining traction, we have a debate [...]
Open Source and Cloud Computing Series: Canonical – An Open Source Company Embracing The Clouds
Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is positioning itself to be a big player in the Cloud based era. They are plotting their move towards Clouds simultaneously through many different routes, from marrying Ubuntu desktop and server editions to Cloud to offering storage as a service to SaaS based management services. In this edition of [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing Series: Commercial Open Source Ecosystem Is Taking Off
When Open Source started getting traction in the enterprise world, we saw business models emerge on top of the Open Source philosophical platform. One of the most successful business models is the so called Redhat model where the software is released under an Open Source license and monetization is done by offering support for a [...]
Under the Radar – Not So Live Blogging Of The First Two Sessions
Here is a recap of the first two sessions at Under the Radar. The first session was a panel discussion where David Powers of Eli Lilly, Mark Bagley of Bristish Telecom and Steve Heck of Getty Images offered their take about Cloud Computing from the enterprise perspective. They discussed about the expectations and concerns of [...]
Built-in Support for the Cloud Makes Ubuntu Something Special
Krishnan wrote about the next version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala, back in March and said; Essentially, Ubuntu has decided to focus on developing features which will help propel Ubuntu Server edition to play a major role in the Cloud infrastructure ecosystem By incorporating code from Project EUCALYPTUS into this latest version of the Linux distribution, [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing Series – What Is Under The Radar
In this second post on the Open Source and Cloud Computing Series, I am going to take a look at two open source products that will be showcased in Under The Radar Cloud Computing Event at Mountain View on April 24th 2009. Cloud Avenue is a media partner for this event and we have a VIP reader [...]
Rich Wolski discusses Grids, Clouds, and the past, present and future of EUCALYPTUS
Rich Wolski is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the Eucalyptus Project. Rich joined me at the end of last week for a conversation about Eucalyptus, and the result has just been released as one of the podcast series I’m continuing to produce for [...]
