Comments on: Eucalyptus updates cloud platform in open source mold http://gigaom.com/2012/06/19/eucalyptus-updates-platform/ Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eddie http://gigaom.com/2012/06/19/eucalyptus-updates-platform/#comment-854243 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:24:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=533188#comment-854243 Great point Keith. Oh and by the way Mr. Mickos, what if I want to run this on the bare metal of a 12-core Mac Pro tower (with 64-bit EFI firmware), which Apple just lowered the entry price to at WWDC. Sigh, I can just imagine the answer is something like “its not compatible with Apple’s bare metal”. Some shops to have quite a few Mac Pro towers btw. The only VMWare product that I’m aware of that will run on Mac bare metal is Fusion (or maybe Workstation if booted to Windows or a Linux distro).

]]> By: Keith Townsend http://gigaom.com/2012/06/19/eucalyptus-updates-platform/#comment-854207 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 01:00:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=533188#comment-854207 The value of their product in the enterprise are their plugins and the integration with AWS. As they stated in your previous post this software is hard to build. I don’t believe the enterprise is interested in open source for cloud management. API’s are more than enough.

This announcement maybe more relevant to service providers and system integrators but not the enterprise. I’d love for them to give an example of an enterprise deploying a private cloud and rolling their own plugins.

]]> By: Barb Darrow http://gigaom.com/2012/06/19/eucalyptus-updates-platform/#comment-854201 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:20:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=533188#comment-854201 @keith, i do think that them putting all the code and bug databases etc on github component is a big deal — and anyone can develop plugins for eucalyptus so if you don’twant to use theirs, you can BYO…

]]> By: Keith Townsend http://gigaom.com/2012/06/19/eucalyptus-updates-platform/#comment-854001 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:21:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=533188#comment-854001 “If you want to run this integrated with VMware you need plug-in and you’ll pay for that but it’s not a separate edition” I don’t think end users really care about the editions. It’s all about hypervisor integration for the private cloud and if the VMWare portion isn’t FOSS then what’s the news here?

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