Mobile Social Cloud

Posted: Wednesday 25th of January 2012 02:46:06 PM By Mårten Mickos

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?

Mobile

It seems to me that all of this is a necessity of the modern world. When you connect everything with everything, you end up with mobile and social cloud solutions.

Mankind loves to connect things. We connect people, devices, situations, locations, functions, and services. To do this, we must equip every end-point with a mobile device. Today, there are an estimated 6 billion mobile subscriptions in the world. It's a big number, but it is nothing compared to what it will be.

Visionaries are estimating that we may soon have up to one trillion connected devices. Roughly speaking, that's a 100X growth from today. How could that happen?

When

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 2:00am (PDT)

Description

The next step in IT efficiency is in moving from a virtualized environment to an on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud.

But with this move, IT infrastructure groups face a new level of automation and software delivery challenges:
- Existing manual or semi-automated processes for the creation and maintenance of VM servers
- Post-installation configuration
- Scaling
- Software governance

Discover how an on-premise IaaS cloud combined with a VM server template factory can help give engineers their own personal App Store. In minutes, assemble, build, maintain, and share a full VM Server Template including complete stack modeling. This enables rapid migration of existing applications and collaboration from Dev/QA to production.

Join us on Thursday, February 9, 2012 where you’ll learn:
- Why template modeling and management is core to software governance for the cloud
- How to enable collaboration and sharing with a dynamic IT app store
- How to automate the build and maintenance of your VM image library

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

If you or someone you know is responsible for cloud infrastructure, then please join us for the webinar.

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When

Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 8:00am (PDT)

Description

The next step in IT efficiency is in moving from a virtualized environment to an on-premise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud.

But with this move, IT infrastructure groups face a new level of automation and software delivery challenges:
- Existing manual or semi-automated processes for the creation and maintenance of VM servers
- Post-installation configuration
- Scaling
- Software governance

Discover how an on-premise IaaS cloud combined with a VM server template factory can help give engineers their own personal App Store. In minutes, assemble, build, maintain, and share a full VM Server Template including complete stack modeling. This enables rapid migration of existing applications and collaboration from Dev/QA to production.

Join us on Thursday, February 9, 2012 where you’ll learn:
- Why template modeling and management is core to software governance for the cloud
- How to enable collaboration and sharing with a dynamic IT app store
- How to automate the build and maintenance of your VM image library

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

If you or someone you know is responsible for cloud infrastructure, then please join us for the webinar.

Register for webinar

Recorded On

Thursday, January 5, 2012 - 8:00am (PDT)

Description

Although private, public and hybrid clouds are gaining mainstream acceptance, getting your cloud up and running is only half the battle. Once it's deployed, you've got to also ensure that your cloud services perform as advertised and do not suffer from poor response times or even resource outages. The impact to service level agreements can be costly due to lost time, lower user satisfaction, and even lost business.

With the growing interest in cloud service performance, this timely webinar will show you how to leverage your existing IT infrastructure to develop an Infrastructure-as-a-Service private cloud and gain real-time visibility into your cloud-based services and infrastructure resources now running your business and IT operations, including users, systems, databases, applications, and web services.

You’ll learn how to:
• Develop a private cloud blueprint for pooling your compute, storage, and network resources
• Stay on top of the performance for your internal and external cloud-based services and resources through dashboarding and visualization
• Anticipate cloud performance and quality of service issues through trending
• Be alerted to any cloud resource issues that may come up

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

If you or someone you know is responsible for private cloud infrastructure, then join us for the webinar.

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2011: A Year of Work and Growth

Posted: Tuesday 20th of December 2011 06:40:10 PM By Mårten Mickos

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?

Here at Eucalyptus, we are ending the year on a high note. We have expanded our installed base and our market faster than planned and faster than ever before. In this year we added more reference users than all our competitors combined. Our customers are typically big brand owners like Puma or advanced web/tech companies like Plinga (who runs a hybrid cloud). Check out their stories here: http://www.eucalyptus.com/about/customers/case-studies.

We built out our partner ecosystem. Today we have over 180 partners all over the world - most of them cloud software vendors who extend and enhance the power of the Eucalyptus platform. You'll find the list here: http://www.eucalyptus.com/partners.

Our Engineering team was focused on the massive undertaking called Eucalyptus 3.0, developing high availability (HA) for the cloud platform itself.

My Tweets of the Fall of 2011

Posted: Thursday 8th of December 2011 12:17:57 PM By Mårten Mickos

Almost a tradition already, I will here summarize my tweets from the previous months. Click here to see my previous tweet summary.

CIO.com, Kim Nash, December 1, 2011

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Recorded On

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 11:00am (PDT)

Description

Many IT organizations have adopted virtualization to consolidate and standardize infrastructure. Architects across IT (enterprise, infrastructure, applications) and their partners in operations are looking to take the next step in automation and innovation using on-premise private cloud platforms.

The next step is self-service automation and infrastructure as a service, which provides automation beyond virtualization that supports elasticity and on-demand/per usage service models.

But:
- How do you architect and govern self-service provisioning and elasticity across enterprises?
- How do you control access?
- How do you manage assets and ownership?
- How do you implement chargeback and billing?

Join us on Thursday, December 1 at 2pm EST / 11am PST to learn how architecture and infrastructure groups can work together to best plan, pilot, and adopt cloud computing.

You'll hear enStratus and Eucalyptus demonstrate how to:
- Architect and automate self-service provisioning for enterprise deployments
- Implement governance to extend policies and procedures into the private cloud
- Create a blueprint for private cloud adoption

You’ll see a demonstration of self-service provisioning with automated security, budgeting, and chargeback, and at the conclusion of the webinar you’ll be eligible for a free trial and proof of concept of an integrated enStratus and Eucalyptus self-service provisioning cloud.

Time will be made available at the end for Q&A.

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Eucalyptus Clouds in Production

Posted: Wednesday 9th of November 2011 10:54:24 AM By Mårten Mickos

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.

Scalable Web Services

Puma runs their marketing websites on Eucalyptus. Thanks to the cloud platform, they can efficiently handle widely varying workloads on their various mini websites, which experience usage spikes as a result of consumer behavior and promotional campaigns. Read our Puma case study.

Social Gaming

Plinga is the leading European publisher of social games. They launch new games on Amazon Web Services (AWS). When the usage profile becomes more manageable, they move games back in-house onto a Eucalyptus cloud.

Welcome, Greg, to the Community of Eucalyptus

Posted: Monday 7th of November 2011 07:53:20 AM By Rich Wolski

It is really great to be able to welcome Greg Dekoenigsberg to Eucalyptus. We have always been admirers of the way in which Fedora operates as a community-managed Linux distribution. Greg's leadership is as evident in the quality of the software as it is in the enthusiasm with which Fedora users and contributors interact within its community.

Eucalyptus will certainly benefit from Greg's insights and thoughtful approach to community engagement. Open source software has really been the agent of change that has driven the success of cloud computing, particularly with respect to private clouds. Greg is a person with a strong vision for how this confluence of technologies will change the way users, developers, and administrators make use of computing infrastructure.

Greg's advent as a leader in the Eucalyptus community also marks the beginning of the next era in the project's lifetime. With Eucalyptus 3, the feature set, extensibility, and configuration options together represent a significant new private cloud capability.