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Gmail's Outage Illustrates Cloud Problems, and Open Source Opportunities

Yesterday morning, Google's Gmail service went down for what the company claims was a small subset of users. As GigaOm noted, when Gmail goes down, it disrupts many types of businesses, and it's often hard to fathom what is actually going on from Google's terse advisories. Yesterday's outage appeared to affect many users, at least judging by complaints and teeth-gnashing visible on Twitter.

This is a perfect example of why cloud computing is not as perfect as its many proponents claim it is, and why businesses will not just haphazardly keep all their data out in the cloud. Instead, I believe they will reach for combinations of in-cloud and out-of-cloud software solutions, just as many of us do individually. That concept leaves ample room for flexible, cloud-focused open source solutions.



Eucalyptus Systems Bridges Private and Public Clouds

On the heels of the launch and funding of open source cloud computing player Eucalyptus Systems, the company has now announced its first commercial product. The Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EEE) enables customers to implement an on-premise Eucalyptus cloud with VMware'VSphere virtualization platform, and ESX hypervisor.

VSphere is VMware's cloud operating system. Not only will Eucalyptus' EEE solution allow on-premise Eucalyptus clouds on VMware's platform, but it also supports other hypervisors, including Xen and KVM. With EEE, users can leverage all of these environments, and additonally develop applications compatible with Amazon's EC2.



A Collection of Open Source Cloud Resources

When North Bridge Partners did its Future of Open Source Survey earlier this year, and respondents were asked which trends are having the greatest impact on commercial open source players, Software as a Service (Saas) was ranked number one. Cloud computing, which is inextricably linked with SaaS, was also ranked very highly. As more and more people favor online hosted applications, the world of open source has to respond, and it already is. In this post, you'll find several good resources on cloud and SaaS solutions as they relate to open source.


Red Hat's Open Source Cloud Forum--Free Online, Top Speakers

Red Hat is hosting an Open Source Cloud Computing Forum event all day next Wednesday, July 22nd. It will take place in webinar format, so anyone is free to attend online, although you must register here. Sessions will also be available online after the event, for playback. The roster of speakers looks very impressive, and it looks like the discussions won't focus solely on Red Hat's own cloud efforts. There are top representatives from cutting-edge open source cloud players such as Eucalyptus Systems and Cloudera, for example.


Open Source Cloud Computing Epiphanies and the Structure 09 Conference

Yesterday, GigaOM's Structure 09 conference took place in San Francisco, focused on cloud computing. At GigaOm.com, you can find a number of good posts on what everyone from venture capitalists to Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff had to say about cloud computing. Notably, more than a few of the speakers at the conference expressed caution toward the cloud, and, as we've pointed out on a number of occasions, quite a few of the cloud pundits clearly recognize that open source solutions and more favorable economics are essential to a healthy cloud ecosystem.


Is Amazon Going to Open Source its Web Services and Cloud APIs?

Although it's only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from more than one source that Amazon intends to open source its (AWS) Web Services APIs. Word is Amazon's legal team is currently 'investigating' open sourcing their various web services API's including EC2, S3, etc, he writes. Cohen argues that the move would make a lot of sense, and I agree. Although Amazon's APIs are, as Cohen writes, the de facto standards in cloud computing, Amazon faces significant threats from open source cloud computing efforts if it pursues a purely proprietary path.


Eucalyptus Systems Shares Details On its Open Source Cloud Plans

Last week, we did a story on the open source cloud project Eucalyptus, which was originally an effort out of the University of California at Santa Barbara. As we noted then, the project is now the basis of a well-funded new company, Eucalyptus Systems, which has closed a $5.5 million Series A round of financing led by Benchmark Capital, with BV Capital also participating. (Benchmark Capital is a heavy hitter in funding commercial open source firms, having invested in MySQL, Xen and more.)

Eucalyptus Systems will focus initially on providing Red Hat-like training and consulting services for the Eucalyptus platform, which (under a FreeBSD-style license) provides an infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicates the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. Many companies are already using Eucalyptus as a platform to seamlessly manage their public cloud and on-premise cloud applications, reaping cost advantages over proprietary cloud players. We caught up with Eucalyptus Systems' CTO Rich Wolski, one of the founders of the project, to get details on the company's plans.?



Eucalyptus Systems, Focused on Open Source Cloud Computing, Launches With Funding

Last summer, OStatic broke the news about Eucalyptus, 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. The project rose out of the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has made quite a few waves for its innovative, cost-saving and open approach to cloud computing infrastructure. Fast forward to today, and Eucalyptus Systems is announcing its debut as a commercial company. Eucalyptus Systems has just closed a $5.5 million Series A round of venture financing led by Benchmark Capital with BV Capital also participating. Here's what the company offers.


Mozilla's Bespin Delivers Open, Collaborative Cloud App Development

Mozilla Labs is out with a new project, dubbed Bespin, aimed at allowing collaborative programming, HTML coding, and development out in the cloud. Mozilla is calling it an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing, and it's released under the Mozilla Public License. Bespin is only an initial prototype at this point, but it's part of a growing effort to deliver open source cloud infrastructure tools. ?Many cloud applications depend on their online hosted status to attract users to collaborate, so why shouldn't development of cloud applications be collaborative and online as well? Open source tools for the cloud may play an important part in obstructing lock-in strategies from cloud service providers.


RightScale Teams With Eucalyptus for Cloud Solutions

Back in June, we broke the news about Eucalyptus, 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. Now RightScale, a leader in cloud computing management and support, has announced a partnership with the Eucalyptus team at U.C. Santa Barbara to foster cloud computing research, experimentation and adoption.


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