Look! Hewlett-Packard is doing something with Eucalyptus after all, at least according to a new web page touting HP Helion Eucalyptus, the “Open.…
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HP reorgs cloud biz as Marten Mickos cedes key responsibilities
Marten Mickos, the former Eucalyptus CEO who became HP’s top cloud guy in September when HP bought Eucalyptus, is turning over key responsibilities to…
Read MoreHP’s Helion OpenStack is here
If you want an HP-branded OpenStack or an HP-branded Cloud Foundry, you are in luck: Both are available today with support from friends Docker, New Relic, MongoDB.…
Read MoreWhat in the world will HP do with Eucalyptus? The company’s cloud chief(s) give us a hint
On this week's Structure Show: Marten Mickos, Martin Fink and Bill Hilf talk about HP's acquisition of Eucalyptus and what it means to HP's OpenStack-focused clouds.…
Read MoreDoes Eucalyptus give HP carte blanche on AWS compatibility?
Now that the deal's done, here comes the nitty gritty. Did HP buy Eucalyptus to get the keys to the Amazon Web Services kingdom? Or is it an aqui-hire?…
Read MoreHP buys Eucalyptus as cloud consolidation commences for real
Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos, once known for his anti-OpenStack rhetoric, now leads the HP OpenStack private-hybrid-public cloud effort…
Read MoreEucalyptus CEO, acknowledging some tough going, claims cloud turnaround
Mårten Mickos took to his blog to proclaim a big change of fortunes for open-source cloud Eucalyptus. But what would we expect him to say?…
Read MoreTop 5 best (off-stage) moments at AWS Re:invent
Amazon Web Services desktop virtualization, real-time data streaming, and RDB Postgres support news stole the show, but there was a lot else going on at AWS re:Invent. Here are my highlights.…
Read MoreEucalyptus tightens ties between its own and Amazon’s clouds
The new 3.4 release enables management of private and Amazon public cloud workloads in one console. Oh, and "warm upgrades."…
Read MoreFor 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 MoreEucalyptus supports Netflix tools to prove its Amazon cloud compatibility
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 MoreThis week in cloud: OpenStack chugs along and Eucalyptus shakes up
Morphlabs arms service providers against Amazon; Rackspace gets home-state help; Eucalyptus makes some big changes.…
Read MoreBig changes at Eucalyptus: Mickos confirms departures of Wolski, Ziouani
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 MoreEucalyptus update makes its techie cloud easier to use
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 More7 things we learned at Structure Europe
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 MoreA tweet chat with Marten Mickos: the cloud in Europe and OpenStack revisited
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 MorePrediction: More cloud confusion ahead
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 MoreIf AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?
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 MoreEucalyptus updates cloud platform in open source mold
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 MoreThis week in European events
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 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 MoreCompetition for the private cloud heats up
Despite OpenStack’s continued growth, a combination of product updates and acquisitions from Citrix, Eucalyptus, Red Hat and VMware over the past week demonstrate…
Read MoreToday in Cloud
My wife, once again, has been proved right (don’t tell her). I survived more than a week offline, on the side of…
Read MoreWhat Ubuntu’s Move to OpenStack Means for Eucalyptus
This week, the Ubuntu project announced that "future versions of Ubuntu Cloud will use OpenStack as a foundation technology," apparently replacing Eucalyptus as the enabling infrastructure behind Ubuntu's cloud capabilities. Eucalyptus does not (yet) appear to have been dropped completely, and existing deployments will definitely be supported for the next few years. But this is the latest in a series of setbacks for the platform, and it is becoming increasingly unclear whether it has a compelling future.…
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