Eucalyptus 3.1 Doubles Down on Cloud Platform's Open Source Origin

All the way back in 2008, OStatic broke the news about Eucalyptus, an open source (under a FreeBSD-style license) infrastructure for cloud computing on clusters that duplicated the functionality of Amazon's EC2, using the Amazon command-line tools directly. Originally an open source project at U.C. Santa Barbara, Eucalyptus was big news.

As the open source cloud computing game has become more competitive, though, Eucalyptus has faced challenges. Today, Eucalyptus Systems--the commercial entity that took shape around the original cloud platform--has announced that it is reaffirming its focus on open source with Eucalyptus 3.1. With 3.1, the company is getting rid of separate enterprise and open source editions and putting one open source option out into the wild.

With this release, Eucalyptus is trying to accelerate on-premise cloud usage by making it easy for open source community development of enterprise-grade IaaS clouds.  Eucalyptus 3.1 source code is available directly from GitHub, and facilitates enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, plus VMware vCenter 5.

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