Open source history, present day, and licensing
This article is part of my talk, Open-Source Business Models. You can see the full transcript and the video of my talk on Heavybit.com. My name is Marten Mickos and I’m the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. As Tom mentioned, I was the CEO of MySQL for eight years. I was de facto the only CEO […]
AWS, Eucalyptus And My Own Hallucinations On This
Yesterday blogs and Twitter were full of opinions about the AWS-Eucalyptus partnership. I even made joke on this discussion when fellow CloudAve blogger Christian Reilly asked for a quick take. @reillyusa First step to acquisition. Send me my $10 — Krish (@krishnan) March 22, 2012 The punditry was at the peak yesterday about the topic […]
Eucalyptus Bets On High Availability With Their Exclusive Enterprise Focus
Eucalyptus Systems (previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud platform player with a core enterprise focus, today announced the forthcoming release of Eucalyptus 3.0. With this new release, Eucalyptus is taking the “high availability” mantra to lure enterprises when the buzz around the cloud world is the Amazon outage. More than the buzz surrounding the outages, Eucalyptus […]
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus […]
Eucalyptus Open To OpenStack
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the open source academic project which turned into a commercial offering for enterprises, appears to be open about OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage here), its biggest Open Source competitor in the space. When OpenStack was established, NASA moved Nebula development from Eucalyptus to OpenStack. Many perceived OpenStack to […]
