Ubuntu Workshop at Cloud Expo
April 23, 2009 - Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) has been released today
bringing highly interesting new features, specially in the Cloud Computing
and Virtualization area. The new Ubuntu server distribution includes two
complementary cloud tools, OpenNebula and Eucalyptus, so providing the
technology required to build the three types of Cloud architectures, namely
private, hybrid and public clouds.
Eucalyptus can be used to transform an existing infrastructure into an
IaaS public cloud, being compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface.
Eucalyptus is fully functional with respect to providing cloud-like
interfaces and higher-level cloud functionality for security,
contextualization and image management.
OpenNebula, on the other hand, is a virtu... (more)
Last Friday, the OpenNebula project announced the implementation of the OGF
OCCI draft specification. The release, that will be part of OpenNebula
1.4, includes a server implementation, clients command for using the
service and enabling access to the full functionality of the OCCI interface,
and several supporting documents. The last version of this open source
toolkit for cloud compu... (more)
The HPCcloud discussion group has been created in order to address the
growing interest in High Performance Computing and Grid Computing in the
Cloud. The purpose of this group is to present experiences and scenarios by
individuals, organizations and projects to illustrate how Cloud computing
can enhance the different types of distributed and high performance computing
infrastructures in... (more)
As part of its exploitation strategy, Telefónica I+D has decided to release
as Open Source a number of components developed during its research on
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Clouds. These components will be
integrated in the Claudia Platform that will offer a Service Management
toolkit to deploy and control the scalability of service among a public or
private IaaS Cloud. Telefón... (more)
OpenNebula Cloud on Ulitzer
Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a
flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local
with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting
environments.
The key component in these cloud architectures will the cloud management
system, also called cloud operating system (OS), being... (more)