Intel Cloud Builder Guide to Cloud Design and Deployment on Intel Platforms (March 2010)

- This whitepaper chronicles the real-life implementation of an open source private cloud within a high-performance data center. Intended for Cloud Service Providers, Hosters, and other IT professionals looking to build their own cloud infrastructures, this paper discusses driving forces (e.g., lowering IT operational costs and increasing resource scalability), cloud architecture, hardware specifications, and the actions performed to install, configure, and operate the cloud.

Cloud Computing and Open Source: IT Climatology is Born (March 2010)

- This whitepaper discusses the importance of open-source in providing an “on-premise” cloud architecture capable of delivering the efficiency gains of a self-provisioned virtualized infrastructure, while facilitating (through transparency and adaptability) the control, security, and quick remediation requirements so critical to enterprise IT.

Five Steps to Enterprise Cloud Computing (February 2010)

- This whitepaper discusses the use of cloud computing in the enterprise data center, the potential friction points associated with the adoption of cloud computing and steps to take to initiate the development of an enterprise “private cloud” as an IT optimizing technology.

Yankee Group: Eucalyptus Offers Enterprises an Open Source Route to Private Clouds (March 2010)

- About half of all enterprises say they prefer private cloud computing deployments, according to Yankee Group data. Open source options like Eucalyptus - which offers a private cloud platform that also supports public cloud APIs - provide enterprises with low-risk, cost-effective ways to get started.

Wells Fargo Securities: Cloud Computing: Fundamental Attributes, Implications, and Trends (March 2010)

- This report provides an exploration of cloud computing – one of the most significant architectural and conceptual shifts in enterprise IT. This report focuses on providing a fundamental conceptual definition of cloud computing and on Eucalyptus.

Lazard Capital Markets: The Cloud - The New Paradigm in Enterprise Computing (March 2010)

- This report examines the current competitive and market landscape, and assess emerging trends affecting the cloud computing market. The report also presents a synopsis of current trends in cloud computing and its relation to the current capital markets environment.