It’s not often the software world goes through a revolutionary change. But the advent of the cloud will force software developers to reevaluate – and discard – many of their most basic assumptions. Read more »
Eucalyptus wants to be the most compatible of AWS-compatible private clouds and says its support of Netflix OSS tools proves it is just that. Read more »
Morphlabs arms service providers against Amazon; Rackspace gets home-state help; Eucalyptus makes some big changes. Read more »
Eucalyptus co-founder Rich Wolski returns to his academic roots at University of California Santa Barbara; sales exec Said Zioanni has left. What’s going on? Read more »
With this update to its open-source cloud, Eucalyptus focuses on better usability, a web-based user console, better reporting tools and key bug fixes to harden the cloud foundation for production use, says CEO Marten Mickos. Read more »
Facebook’s breaking up with hardware OEMs, Europeans distrust the cloud and it’s anyone’s guess whether there will be an Amazon of Europe. Those were among the key takeaways from the first-ever Structure Europe event in Amsterdam last week. Read more »
Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, joined us for a tweet chat to discuss the state of the cloud in Europe (and the data privacy regulations that could hinder its adoption), and to give us a preview of his talk onstage next week at Structure:Europe. Read more »
Well into the cloud computing era, the definitions of what constitutes an “open cloud,” and how to select the right technology are still a mystery to potential users. And, consumers are still in the dark when it comes to the concept of cloud. Read more »
The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM’s Structure conference. OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp challenged his Citrix and Eucalyptus on their “closed” cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services’ API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure. Read more »
Eucalyptus, the company that wants to link private clouds to the Amazon cloud, is updating its platform software bringing it more in line with the open source model. All Eucalyptus 3.1 code will be available on Github. Subscribers will get plug-ins and other perks. Read more »
Europe’s buzzing this week, with a range of events that give everyone plenty to sink their teeth into. Here’s our pick of three that you may find interesting or useful. Read more »
Amazon and Eucalyptus announced a partnership that gives corporate customers a chance to bridge their private clouds with Amazon’s cloud that includes services such as S3 and EC2. It is a sign that Jeff Bezos’ company is aggressively moving to keep competition at bay. Read more »
Despite OpenStack’s continued growth, a combination of product updates and acquisitions from Citrix, Eucalyptus, Red Hat and VMware over the past week demonstrate that the race to become the dominant private cloud provider, as well as win over the enterprise, is far from over. Is one of ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
In this video interview, Marten Mickos, ex-CEO of MySQL, discusses the state of open source, lessons he learned from his time at MySQL, and how cloud computing changes everything including open source. He shares unconventional wisdom about the need for open source to think money. Read more »
Eucalyptus Systems, a Santa Barbara, Calif.-based start-up that is developing cloud computing management platform based on the open source Eucalyptus says that it has raised $20 million in a new round of funding. With this infusion, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $25.5 million. Read more »
