Yan Pritzker » ec2

Eucalyptus is an open source Amazon EC2 clone

yan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:15:28 +0000

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.

Infoworld names CohesiveFT in top 10 startups for 2008

yan — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:37:25 +0000

It’s an exciting day for us here at CohesiveFT as Infoworld named us a Top 10 startup for 2008! It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we continue to put in to make Elastic Server On Demand a highly valuable service. We’ve recently launched a customer forum at GetSatisfaction so please come and tell us all about what makes Elastic Server more valuable for you.

Elastic Server On Demand relaunched

yan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:04:15 +0000

“We at CFT are proud to announce the latest refresh of our Elastic Server On-Demand service.

Elastic Servers(tm) are application stacks which can be dynamically constructed from component libraries and delivered in many virtualization-ready formats (VMware, Xen, Parallels). We call them “elastic” because it is just the amount of components you want for a task, no more no less. Fat stacks, skinny stacks, your call.”

via elastic server blog

This release brings a new UI, a Rails parts bin where you can build your own elastic Rails server, and EC2 support so you can launch it right in the cloud! It’s still in private beta, but contact me if you want to check it out!