Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds

12.09.2009

So we feel what Eucalyptus allows you to do is build a cloud within your data centre with whatever virtualization technology you wish to use. And it's our job to try to allow your user community and your administrator to take best advantage of those feature sets that come from those virtualization technologies.

Are there any last points you would like to make?

We work with all the Linux distros, but we've been working most closely with the people at Ubuntu. The next release of Ubuntu, which will be out at the end of October, is called Karmic Koala -- that's both because they name releases after letters in the alphabet (and K is the next letter) and also because Eucalyptus is really central to Ubuntu's data centre Linux distro.

The server offering is going to include something called the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and that really is an ecosystem that Ubuntu has developed around Eucalyptus. So we have these commercial products and we also have open source products that are being driven into the enterprise as well with partners like the folks at Ubuntu.