Eucalyptus update makes its techie cloud easier to use
November 26, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
With this update to its open-source cloud, Eucalyptus focuses on better usability, a web-based user console, better reporting tools and key bug fixes to harden the cloud foundation for production use, says CEO Marten Mickos.
With its third major update in 12 months, open source cloud-software company Eucalyptus has added a graphical user interface and better reporting tools to its open-source cloud, and has hardened the underlying engine to make it more robust for production use. A pioneer in the private-cloud arena, Eucalyptus now finds itself competing other open source projects such as CloudStack and OpenStack, as well as with VMware’s vCloud Director…
“With this release we’ve made Eucalyptus harder on the inside and softer on the outside,” Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos told me. “We’ve fixed some difficult bugs in the engine and made it easier to log data, troubleshoot to get better reporting. It’s much easier to run in production now. Softer on the outside means we’re making it easy to use. It sounds silly and simple, but our research background did not lead us into usability early on. We’re doing that now.”…
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