Category Archives: Eucalyptus

Cloud APIs: It’s the Architecture that Matters

Lack of excitement is not something the cloud market can be accused of! Citrix just announced a bold roadmap for its CloudStack platform coming right on the heels of a Eucalyptus and Amazon announcement to extend API compatibility and just … Continue reading

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RightScale Launches 3 Millionth Server

Here at RightScale, we’ve just passed the 3 million server milestone.  Driven by our growing customer and free-user base, and their ever-increasing cloud usage, the 3M mark represents a benchmark in the industry, and is noteworthy in three different ways. … Continue reading

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RightScale Release: MultiCloud ServerTemplates and RightImages…

This is Part Two of our release series.  A couple weeks ago, we announced a lot of goodies and while we’re going to talk about some new stuff today, be sure to come back next week for more about our … Continue reading

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VMops rebrands to Cloud.com and open sources

Pretty bold move by VMops! They evidently bought the cloud.com domain and are rebranding to Cloud.com on the occasion of their new release, now called CloudStack 2.0, which they’re also open-sourcing at open.cloud.com. With this they’re joining the open source … Continue reading

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Eucalyptus Systems gets funded

Our friends and neighbors at the new Eucalyptus Systems just got funding from no less than Benchmark and BV Capital. That’s a pretty exceptional accomplishment in the current venture climate! Read more about it at Venture beat or on the … Continue reading

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RightScale + Ubuntu + Eucalyptus = cloud in a box

Need a cloud in a box? Want a cloud in a box? Well, then, start requisitioning a couple of machines now so you’re ready on Thursday to load up Ubuntu 9.04, install Eucalyptus, and follow the prompt to register your … Continue reading

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My cloud, your cloud, our cloud

As we’re getting ready to support private and hybrid clouds in RightScale I thought it would be worthwhile to write up some of the experience and thinking that we’ve gone through. Over the past few months we’ve seen a sustained … Continue reading

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