Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Eucalyptus Systems announced an agreement last week that enables customers to more efficiently migrate workloads between their existing data centers and the AWS cloud while using the same management tools and skills across both environments.
Wherever you turn in the tech business today, three keywords stand
out: Mobile, Social and Cloud. Devices, Services,
Applications and Games are going mobile. Networks, Games, Shopping and
Business are going Social. Cloud is SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. Cloud is also
the new software architecture that underlies all of this.
Thank you for a phenomenal 2011. This has been a year of enacting change, building strength and experiencing growth for Eucalyptus. The year of 2011 started with questions. How big would the market for private cloud software platforms be? Who are the real contenders? What about hybrid clouds?
Almost a tradition already, I will here summarize my tweets from the previous months. This is my previous tweet summary from Summer 2011. And, of course, feel free to follow my tweets in real time at twitter.com/martenmickos.
Many times I am asked about the typical use cases for Eucalyptus and who our users and customers are. When the Eucalyptus open source project launched in 2008, many of our early adopters were academic and research institutions, as is typical with new technologies. Since then, Eucalyptus usage has spread to innovative tech companies, large enterprises, and government agencies. Below is a quick summary of common uses cases and some relatively new Eucalyptus users.