Eucalyptus Systems, which develops an open source private cloud platform, has updated their namesake product to version 2.0, allegedly adding higher scalability and flexibility. Here’s a look at the effort. New to Eucalyptus 2.0, according to the company’s press release, are a slew of features all built around the core concept of increasing the private cloud’s potential deployment size. To wit:

Matthew Weinberger

August 26, 2010

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Eucalyptus Launches New Private Cloud Platform Version

Eucalyptus Systems, which develops an open source private cloud platform, has updated their namesake product to version 2.0, allegedly adding higher scalability and flexibility. Here’s a look at the effort.

New to Eucalyptus 2.0, according to the company’s press release, are a slew of features all built around the core concept of increasing the private cloud’s potential deployment size. To wit:

  • Increased back-end cluster scale improvements to support “massive private and hybrid clouds.”

  • Support for iSCSI protocol for EBS volumes, making it easier to deploy Eucalyptus on top of existing IT infrastructure. That means you can situate the EBS controller machine anywhere in the cloud.

  • Support for KVM virtio, giving administrators the option to choose between emulated device drivers or direct kernel supported I/O devices.

  • S3 versioning – One of Eucalyptus’ main claims to fame is their Amazon Web Services compatibility, which they now extend to the Amazon S3 storage cloud. A new API enables Eucalyptus users to retrieve specific versions of objects by way of Eucalyptus Walrus.

The final part of this announcement is that contributing code to Eucalyptus just got easier with an enhanced open.eucalyptus.com website — something sure to make its fans in the IT world happy.

The VAR Guy has asked whether or not Eucalyptus can become another $100 million company. Giving cloud solution providers the tools to deploy to larger enterprises using the Eucalyptus platform is certainly a step in the right direction.

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