Can Eucalyptus Compete with OpenStack? Mårten Mickos Says Yes - ReadWriteCloud. The big story in the open source cloud these days is OpenStack. Rackspace's baby is sucking all the oxygen out of the room when it comes to attention, but what about the first, and production-ready, open source cloud computing platform? You might think that Eucalyptus is in dire straits with companies joining OpenStack en masse, but that's not the case.
I spoke with Eucalyptus CEO Mårten Mickos at length yesterday, and he seems very sanguine about its prospects. Eucalyptus isn't getting as much attention these days, but it might be because the Eucalyptus team is just busy writing and selling software. While OpenStack is still in rapid development mode, it's not in widespread deployment. Eucalyptus, on the other hand, is. "Yes, it's interesting to see how much support OpenStack has, especially from hardware vendors" says Mickos. Of Community and Linux Distributions That said, Mickos has not given up on building a more enthusiastic community around Eucalyptus. Room for More. Cloud Cannibalism: Is PaaS Killing SaaS? — Cloud Computing News. How To: Run Your Business in the Cloud | Coupa Cabana.
Cloud Computing for dummies. OSCON 09: Simon Wardley, "Cloud Computing - Why IT Matters" Why We Moved Off The Cloud at Mixpanel Engineering. This post is a follow up to We’re moving. Goodbye Rackspace. Cloud computing is often positioned as a solution to scalability problems. In fact, it seems like almost every day I read a blog post about a company moving infrastructure to the cloud. At Mixpanel, we did the opposite. I’m writing this post to explain why and maybe even encourage some other startups to consider the alternative. First though, I wanted to write a short bit about the advantages of cloud servers since they are ideal for some use cases.
Low initial costs. The cloud’s intractable problem … is variable — no, highly variable — performance. The fundamental problem with cloud servers is that you’re at the mercy of your neighbors. To be clear, variable performance forced us off the cloud, but I thought I would point out a couple other cloud disadvantages too: One size fits all. Going dedicated After getting fed up with variable cloud performance, I decided to make the move to dedicated hardware.
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