By Marten Mickos | May 09, 2012
Here is a summary of my tweets about Eucalyptus from the previous months.
This is my previous tweet summary for Fall 2011. And, of course, feel free to follow my tweets in real time at http://twitter.com/#!/martenmickos
Eucalyptus has just been given "top tier" billing by the only cloud player whose opinion really matters http://bit.ly/HtQf5Q
By Marten Mickos | April 06, 2012
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.
By Marten Mickos | January 25, 2012
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.
What is happening? What does all of this mean?
By Marten Mickos | December 20, 2011
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?
By Marten Mickos | December 08, 2011
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.
By Marten Mickos | November 09, 2011
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.
By Marten Mickos | September 13, 2011
A summer full of activity! Cloud computing, open source, and modern business management saw great advances in the last few months. Linux turned 20. Amazon Web Services kept growing. Eucalyptus expanded its installed base.
Below is a review of the summer that passed based on my twitter account. I reviewed my tweets and picked the ones I believe have the most lasting value. I grouped them by category. Hope you enjoy them!
By Marten Mickos | August 24, 2011
It is important times for Eucalyptus and private cloud computing, as we proudly announce the next generation of Eucalyptus software: Eucalyptus 3. Known worldwide as cloud pioneers from our times as an advanced research project at UC Santa Barbara, we are again coming out with an industry first: a private cloud platform with built-in High Availability.
By Marten Mickos | May 21, 2011
In the IT industry, technology and the usage evolves faster than in perhaps any other industry. As a rule of thumb, systems can grow 10 times under their current architecture or paradigm, then they must be re-architected. This 10X effect causes old technologies to become obsolete and new ones to emerge. It also underlies the massive shift to cloud computing.
The last major computing infrastructure paradigm shift happened in the '80s when "client/server" was introduced as the new way to design business applications. Those applications typically ran on x86 computers – aka PCs.
By Marten Mickos | May 11, 2011
Last week Eucalyptus participated in the Red Hat Summit in Boston. This week we are at the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) in Budapest. At UDS Canonical formalized the decision to make OpenStack what they call foundation technology in Ubuntu Cloud. What are the likely impacts of this decision?
As John Pugh of Canonical states it in his tweet (@zoopster): "no real change there it's about choice."
We have been aware of this for some time, and we understand Canonical's decision. Sure, it would have been great to continue as the one and only cloud platform in Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). But we have embraced openness and open source exactly because it creates choice and reduces lock-in. OpenStack is a welcome colleague in the Ubuntu world.
Eucalyptus will continue to fully support Ubuntu Linux. The UEC is a set of extensions to Eucalyptus that Canonical maintains as add-ons to the baseline set of Eucalyptus Ubuntu packages. We plan to continue to package Eucalyptus for Ubuntu; it is the set of add-ons that will no longer be supported by Canonical.
