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Ubuntu heads to the clouds

On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with 
Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, will be 
launching Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services.   

http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_heads_to_the_clouds

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Open source cloud platform is commercialized by its creators

The creators of Eucalyptus, an open source platform for building private clouds, have launched a company to sell products based on the software and have landed $5.5 million in first-round funding.
Eucalyptus Systems promises to sell enterprise-grade products based on Eucalyptus, which is designed to aggregate servers, storage and network infrastructure into a “cloud” that allows end-user customization and self-service provisioning. Eucalyptus supports the same APIs as public clouds, and is compatible with Amazon’s Web Services infrastructure, letting users deploy hybrid clouds consisting of internal and external resources.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/050109-eucalyptus-cloud-open-source.html

Eucalyptus cloud targets enterprise users

The makers of Eucalyptus, the Linux-based open source cloud computing platform that now ships with Ubuntu, are targeting enterprise cloud computing with the launch of Eucalyptus Systems Inc.
With $5.5 million in financing led by Benchmark Capital, the private company will develop enterprise-grade products and services built on the freeware platform, starting with consulting and support.

http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/532071c0-b65d-469e-88ec-52063f7e6671.html

Build a DIY Cloud with Euclayptus, Nimbus and Amazon EC2

Eucalyptus runs on Linux systems, and RPMs are available for the RPM-based systems. The source is also available for building on unsupported Linux systems, but even more exciting is that you can deploy Eucalyptus on a Rocks cluster. With Rocks, Eucalyptus is deployed with basically one command.

http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/_featured/article.php/3817211/Build-a-DIY-Cloud-with-Euclayptus-Nimbus-and-Amazon-EC2.htm

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