June 2012
Beginner
360 pages
10h 6m
English
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Emerging Players in the IaaS Market
Amazon has been the top dog in IaaS for a number of years, but the market is changing fast. It’s inevitable that emerging organizations and companies want a piece of the action. Open source options are emerging as very important in this market.
In this section, we provide an overview of the emerging players in both public and private cloud IaaS, including Eucalyptus, OpenStack, and Red Hat’s CloudForms.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus Systems is a software company intended to help customers accelerate their movement into a hybrid cloud environment. Therefore, it offers services to create a private cloud. To support public cloud services, Eucalyptus leverages Amazon’s Web Services APIs. The initial software behind the Eucalyptus solution was developed as open source at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Eucalyptus continues to support an open source community while at the same time offering an enterprise version of its software.
Through a partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Eucalyptus has made itself particularly interesting for companies wanting to implement a hybrid cloud. Amazon partnered with Eucalyptus by providing the company with access to its AWS APIs. This means that an organization that develops a private cloud using Eucalyptus has built-in compatibility with AWS offerings. This allows companies to more easily create and move workloads between their private cloud and the public cloud. Eucalyptus faces stiff competition from ...
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