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Building on its strong ties to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Eucalyptus today unveiled the latest update to its open source cloud computing platform, adding expanded AWS storage compatibility as well as features to speed up installation and simplify management via a new GUI with self-service capabilities.

In discussing Version 3.2 of Eucalyptus' private and hybrid-cloud software with InfoWorld, company CEO Marten Mickos reiterated what he sees as one of the company's key advantages over rivals such as OpenStack: its unique partnership with Amazon that has enabled Eucalyptus to bake Amazon-API functionality natively into its product. Mickos has predicted that, just as IBM created the industry standard for the PC back in the 1970s, Amazon has created the industry standard for the cloud that will shape the market for years to come. He's confident AWS is the right horse to attach to the Eucalyptus wagon.

"We're just dead certain that the Amazon paradigm will be dominant in the cloud industry for the next 10, 20, 30, 40, or even 50 years," Mickos said.

Eucalyptus customers ought not expect the company to roll out similar levels of support for AWS public cloud rivals anytime soon. But "any public cloud that reaches 20 to 25 percent market share, we will support," he said. "Whoever the next major player after Amazon will be, we will go about supporting them. Today, Amazon has 90 percent of the market or something."

Release 3.2 isn't focused entirely on AWS, mind. In this go-round, the company aimed to simplify installation and management of Eucalyptus. "We've traditionally been focused on advanced features before usability," Mickos said. "We are now achieving and striving to achieve simplicity on the far side of complexity." >>Read more

Source: InfoWorld

Google Compute Engine may have launched less than six months ago but it’s seen as a serious competitor to Amazon Web Services. At least Amazon appears to think so. It just lodged a lawsuit against a former AWS sales executive who is joining Google, according Geekwire which first reported the news.

Daniel Powers, an IBM veteran, joined AWS as VP of sales in 2010, learned the business “from top to bottom” and was privy to company trade secrets, according to the suit. In June, 2012 Amazon offered him a severance package in return for a signed non-compete agreement. This suit, filed in Washington State Superior Court, charged that Powers’ decision to join Google violates the terms of that pact, which required him to stay clear of directly competitive work for 18 months.

Google launched the Google Compute Engine in late June and by virtue of the company’s experience in web-scale computing, it has to be seen as a potential problem to Amazon, the biggest provider of public cloud infrastructure which is also seeing more competition come on line from Rackspace, HP, and Microsoft.

Cloudscaling raised eyebrows a few weeks ago when it said it’s OpenStack-based private cloud will to extend into both AWS and Google public clouds. Cloudscaling execs at the time said they see a lot of customer demand for an alternative to Amazon cloud infrastructure.

Neither Amazon nor Google could be reached for comment. If you want the nitty gritty from the suit, check out the filing below. >>Read more

Source: Gigaom

When evaluating cloud services, enterprises first must determine whether to use an open source cloud platform or a proprietary one -- an increasingly difficult decision.

As cloud services began to emerge, vendors such as Amazon, Google and Verizon/Terremark developed services based on proprietary APIs. These vendors provide only select interfaces to their software, making it difficult for enterprises to tailor cloud environments specific to their needs.

On the contrary, open source cloud software allows IT teams to modify the cloud architecture more than a proprietary or commercial cloud platform might. And working with the open source community often has benefits. “By adopting an open source model, vendors that may have small teams of developers gain more [programmers],” said Lydia Leong, research vice president at Gartner Inc.

OpenStack, CloudStack duke it out for open source authority
Since its inception in 2010, the OpenStack project, originally developed by Rackspace and NASA, has evolved into three interrelated products: OpenStack Compute, OpenStack Object Storage and OpenStack Image Service. >>Read more

Source: SearchCloudComputing

To help boost the development of Thailand's cloud computing sector, government agency Software Park Thailand has teamed up with local cloud service providers to form a partnership called "Cloud Thailand Alliance" (CTA), a report states.

According to The Nation on Sunday, the alliance aims to encourage Thai companies and developers to create software and applications for the cloud platform.

The group was officially launched earlier this month, and the six founding members comprise: True IDC, Datapro, Anise Asia, Cloud Creation, TOT GO, and Software Park Thailand.

The local daily said the alliance would be a channel for software vendors to host their software and applications. It will also help push the adoption of cloud services by the government and education sectors.

"Currently, many educational institutes are interested in adopting cloud. The CTA is expected to be the connecting point for them," Software Park Thailand's director, Thanachart Numnonda, said in the article.

By end-2012, the alliance aims to encourage 20 to 30 software companies to be on the cloud platform. It eventually aims to have about 100 to 200 software applications made available. >>Read more

Source: ZDNet

Amazon may well have a new rival on its cloud computing services because Hewlett-Packard announced recently that they will be moving towards that same direction soon.

Senior vice president and general manager of HP’s cloud services, Zorawar “Biri” Singh said that NYSE: HPQ plans to market a more business friendly with more service features on the cloud computing solutions.

NYT reports that among the software products that HP will release include applications for data analytics-as-a-service and unstructured and structured databases.

In November last year, HP launched its Cloud Solutions, which is part of their big move towards the cloud platform.  Cloud Solution’s features include advanced mixed deployments from and within the public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures. This software will provide all stakeholders from SMBs, cloud and service providers and government agencies to leverage on the emerging cloud enterprises.

One of their target markets are people in Netherlands so they named their partners for software-as-a-service provider in the region. Centric and Dutch were certified to be partners and providers for its HP CloudAgile Program. To boost this move HP released several PR advertisements.

Centric’s primary role is to “help companies improve operations, offering software, IT infrastructure and market-specific application solutions to government, financial services, retail and housing corporation clients,” according to the press release. In Rio Rancho, HP remains to be the second largest company in the area; they offer the best customer service helpdesk and efficient technical support.

Another development took place as HP finally sealed the deal with ProLiant Gen8. It will boost HP’s cloud hosting services at the most reasonable cost. The server’s hype is its “self-sufficient” feature that would allow virtual machines to function on its own while it controls and monitors about 1,600 other system parameters and deal with technical problems on real-time. The servers were coined as “Project Voyager” during its development stage where about US$300 million was spent to complete. HP boasts that it will redefine how data economics function as they become automated.

The automation will use dedicated integrated lights-out (ILO) processor that uses minimal overheads. In the last briefing in Beijing HP announced that the servers will use chips that will read data through sensors that are embedded within the infrastructure. Administrators are quickly notified in cases of outages and system failures even before they occur. >>Read more

Source: CloudTimes