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Elastra Hooks Up Eucalyptus for Open Cloud Computing

Recently, we reported on a U.C. Santa Barbara project called Eucalyptus. It's an open source (under a FreeBSD-style license) infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. Eucalyptus got some notice, with people recognizing it as "a project focused on replicating Amazon APIs in an open source cluster environment." Now, Elastra, which configures, deploys and manages cloud applications, has announced Elastra Cloud Server support for the Eucalyptus platform.

"The Eucalyptus team has combined several useful open source technologies, including Mule, VDE, and libvirt, into a compelling service layer," said Stu Charlton, chief software architect, ELASTRA. "Work still remains to incorporate richer networking, storage and security capabilities, but we look forward to contributing further to building an open cloud ecosystem."

Eucalyptus' interface is compatible with Amazon's EC2 interface, but it's also designed to support multiple client-side interfaces. That's one of several ways that it is an effort to open up cloud applications, which, among other benefits, could usher in more useful applications and help stave off proprietary price gouging.

Elastra is providing a limited beta for businesses that have implemented Eucalyptus in their data centers. To submit your name to the beta program, click here. 

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by Jack G on Aug. 19, 2008

This is great! Good to see solid university projects getting adoption from the corporate world. Let's hope this results in some new money flowing Eucalyptus' way and getting them to enhance their product.

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