Eucalyptus is an open source Amazon EC2 clone
Posted 11 June 2008 @ 5pm | Tagged cloud computing, ec2
Eucalyptus is an interesting new project out of UC Santa Barbara which aims to produce an EC2 compatible private cloud in your own data center. What I really love about this idea is that instead of reinventing the wheel, they’ve decided to be API-compatible with EC2. Not only does this make adoption easier for them, it also starts to establish a de facto cloud API standard, making the production of cross-cloud management tools a breeze.
For more on Eucalyptus, check out the Eucalyptus post on ostatic and the insightful analysis at James Urquhart’s blog.
As James says, they’ve got a long journey ahead and I wish them the best. It’s an exciting day for cloud computing.
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