Eucalyptus Private Cloud which primarily runs on the Amazon EC2 Platform, released version 2.0 with a special update that adds support for Microsoft Windows VMs, along with user group management tools designed to make it more attractive as a scalable enterprise solution.
Recent Moves
Still, plenty of companies are trying to blend cloud computing, open source and virtualization for service providers. Prime examples include:
- As part of Novell’s Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) strategy, the company has partnered up with VMware on a SUSE Linux virtualization effort. Novell also continues to work closely with Microsoft on virtualization interoperability.
- At Red Hat Summit 2010 (starting June 22 in Boston), Red Hat is expected to promote Microsoft interoperability while also evangelizing Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) as a low-cost alternative to VMware and Microsoft.
- Canonical’s Ubuntu Server Edition, a Linux distribution, includes Eucalyptus as the default private cloud offering.
- Microsoft is preparing to introduce private cloud software based on the Windows Azure public cloud platform. As part of that effort, Microsoft has been attracting open source developers to Azure.
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