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....
This summer Eucalyptus 3.0 will be released. I even said it to Barton George while at the OpenStack summit. You can check out the new features on our roadmap: heck, you can even vote on your favorite upcoming feature! Hopefully we listened to all or at least most of the comments and...
The world is becoming a massive computational machine. Soon we will have 10 billion connected devices on this planet - phones, pads, laptops, servers, GPSs and vehicles, medical devices, meters and recorders, and so on. And then there will be more. These connected devices, which are advancing the speed and quality of our communication and access to information at an extraordinary rate, are also democratizing the use of technology - between humans and among the devices...
After reading about the AWS outage, it occurred to me that while much attention has been given to the effects, little discussion of the fundamental cloud principles at work has been offered. It seems to me that there are two important factors to consider when analyzing an event like the AWS outage:
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When cloud computing emerged, it spawned a healthy debate regarding its definition. Like the word "irony" famously immortalized in the film "Reality Bites," the term "cloud" was immediately familiar and undefinable for most technologists. "You'll know it when you see it."
Roughly three and a half years later, though, the community has experimented with cloud computing enough to, more or less, extinguish the debate on its...
We are barely into the beginning of cloud computing, so any prediction of what its future will be prone to error. Massive shifts in IT, such as the shift away from client/server into cloud architectures, are a function not only of winning technologies but also of users' behavioral patterns and of leading vendors' strategic decisions. That's one reason why prediction is so difficult. The biggest shifts in IT so far have been characterized by a technological break-through yielding a 10x...
If you want to learn more about Cloud Computing check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuCloudDays. On the 23rd and 24th of March there will be a 2-day IRC session discussing UEC/Eucalyptus and other cloud related topics. I will be leading the last session on the 24th (IRC nickname obino). Come and share with us your cloud experience. The UEC is powered by Eucalyptus. Ubuntu customized the Eucalyptus UI to match its release colors, and...
What a difference time makes! Back in 2001 when I took the job as CEO of MySQL AB, free and open source software (FOSS) was an exciting escapade for the brave ones only. The FOSS movement had been around for some time already, and the communities were not insignificant. But from a perspective of industry, business and common citizens, open source was the brave new thing that many people admired but few were ready to support.
Looking Back
Back in Finland,...
/. recently saw an interesting post about The Decline and Fall of System Administration. One of the arguments for this (perceived? real?) phenomenon is that server virtualization makes it easier to re-image or restart a server rather than troubleshooting it when a problem arises.
At Eucalyptus Systems we...
As enterprises are adopting private clouds, the question of how workflow and responsibilities need to change is one we find ourselves discussing with increasing frequency. In particular, the dynamic way in which clouds respond to provisioning requests from their users, and the "self-service" features that all clouds support, both change how users and administrators interact with the data center. Discussing the nature of these various roles (see...
