Eucalyptus: The Open Source Private Cloud to Watch
Eucalyptus, an opensource project that we have already talked about in NASA’s Nebula project, in Canonical’s support in the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud and in our meeting organized with the AWS User Group Naples, amazes us more and more.
The compatibility of the Enterprise solution with all hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi), storage support (iSCSI, SAN, NAS), Dell’s recent support for the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud project, and finally the magnificent news of the new CEO, Marten Mickos.
Marten Mickos, whom we met at the MySQL event at La Sapienza University in Rome on May 30, 2008, has a curriculum in the construction of companies of all depth.
– MySQL CEO for 7 years, he led the opensource company from the start-up state to be the second largest opensource company in the world,
-Senior Vice President of SUN after the acquisition of MySQL by SUN Microsystem
-a year as an Entrepreneur in Residence for a couple of Venture Capitalists and now -CEO of Eucalyptus and also Board Member of RightScale.
Marten Mickos, with a degree in Technical Physics from the University of Helsinki, and an unparalleled experience and ability to grow the business of open source companies, will soon lead Eucalyptus to establish itself as a leader in Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions for enterprises.
Says Marten: “Eucalyptus Systems has a brilliant team, highly sophisticated open source technology, and an early lead in a market with a massive global opportunity — all the ingredients for major impact, Private and hybrid cloud computing is the future of corporate IT, and for cloud computing to reach its potential, it will have to be built on open source software such as Eucalyptus. I am privileged to assume the responsibilities of the Eucalyptus CEO to collaborate and learn from its talented team and deliver on the full promise of cloud computing.”
