Cloud Computing Strategies for the CIOOpen source firms form a cloud partnership
Confirming the widely held superstition that it's important to keep track of what all your "IT 2.0" cloud computing resources are doing, for-profit open source firms Eucalyptus and GroundWork have joined forces. The announcement is a technical partnership: Eucalyptus will help GroundWork with its enterprise monitoring software, and vice versa.
Going forward, EucaGroundlyptusWork technologies are likely to be a big part of Ubuntu's Enterprise Cloud operating system distribution. There's also a new product line on the way: GroundWork has opened a beta for GroundWork Monitor Enterprise Cloud, which is built around Eucalyptus' VMware-friendly, for-pay Enterprise Edition.
So what does it all mean? Very shortly, Eucalyptus will have a full-featured private cloud technology with all the things an enterprise needs: policy management, monitoring, fast simple delivery and scalability. Of course, Abiquo already has all that, so it mostly means that maybe Abiquo should give Eucalyptus' PR people a call.
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