Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos has been around the private cloud space since its inception. Nearly five years after the company's launch, Mickos shares his thoughts on a market that rose fast, fell hard and appears to be on the rebound.…
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For developers, the cloud means having to rethink everything they know about making software
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 MoreDon’t look to Europe to create an Amazon rival
Trying to come up with an Amazon of Europe is going to be hard work, said Marten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. The continent has a number of issues to deal with including inertia and resistance to change.…
Read MoreAmazon, Eucalyptus team up for just don’t call it a hybrid cloud
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 MoreNEA’s Sonsini: Cloud infrastructure still king for VC cash
Apple's iCloud and other consumer-focused cloud efforts represent a golden opportunity for startups to raise venture capital, but it might not be from jumping on the bandwagon. According to NEA's Peter Sonsini, the key to getting VC investment is selling the infrastructure that underlies popular clouds.…
Read MoreRightScale brings Zynga-like hybrid clouds to the masses
Cloud-management platform provider RightScale is launching a service to help customers manage private and hybrid clouds similar to what RightScale customer Zynga does with its vaunted Z Cloud infrastructure. Hybrid cloud computing is hot, and MyCloud might represent a better way of thinking about the model.…
Read MoreWhy It’s Too Early to Call the Private-Cloud Fight
Despite a lot of speculation lately about who's winning the private-cloud race and what companies might be on the way out, it's far too early to call the game in anyone's favor. Adoption is picking up, but it's nowhere near ubiquitous, so there's plenty of time.…
Read MorePuma.com Runs on Eucalyptus Cloud; Is There a Lesson Here?
Athletic apparel brand Puma is running Puma.com and related sites on a Eucalyptus-powered private cloud. Puma is another well-known customer win for Eucalyptus, and that it's running a web site on Eucalyptus infrastructure might also help suggest what the first round of private-cloud-hosted applications will be.…
Read MoreJamcracker and Eucalyptus Team for Self-Service
Jamcracker and Eucalyptus announced at VMWorld today that they are partnering on an integration aimed at enabling users to self-provision their private and hybrid clouds. This announcement comes hot on the heels of last weeks announcement of a technology partnership between Eucalyptus, newScale and rPath.…
Read MoreEucalyptus Anchors the Latest Cloud Software Stack
Apparently, Eucalyptus was determined to be part of an integrated cloud stack after getting left out of OpenStack, as it's announced a technology partnership with newScale and rPath that gives businesses yet another option for their ready-to-go cloud platform needs.…
Read MoreEucalyptus, rPath Back a New Private Cloud Effort
NewScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems are working on a new self service, private cloud initiative that is likely to be announced on August 24. This new effort is going to an integrated offering that is targeting hybrid and private clouds.…
Read MoreEucalyptus Raises $20 Million in New VC Funds
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 MoreEucalyptus Enterprise Cloud Makes Friends With Windows
Eucalyptus Systems has launch which support for Windows virtual machines (VMs), that allows Eucalyptus users to run Windows images and applications. Eucalyptus now supports all major hypervisors. The new software allows easy switching from Amazon's EC2 to VMware-based cloud offerings.…
Read MoreWith a New CEO, How Much Is Eucalyptus Worth? $100M?
Eucalyptus Systems, which makes an open-source cloud management platform, last week hired former MySQL chief executive Marten Mickos to turn Eucalyptus into a big business. Can Mickos turn Eucalyptus into a market leader for building open-source private clouds and repeat the MySQL success story?…
Read More11 Top Open-source Resources for Cloud Computing
[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/11_Top_Open_source_Resources_for_Cloud_Computing] Open-source software has been on the rise at many businesses during the extended economic downturn, and one of the areas where…
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