Open source guru Marten Mickos dissects Amazon outage

Open source guru Marten Mickos dissects Amazon outage

Open source guru Marten Mickos dissects Amazon outage

Date: Apr 28, 2011

In this week's episode of Cloud Cover TV, open source chief Marten Mickos sits down with Jo Maitland to analyze the aftershock of the recent Amazon cloud outage.

We discuss:

  • The Amazon power outage and its effect on Eucalyptus
  • Why we shouldn't be surprised by outages, especially with massive servers
  • Amazon's communication style (or lack thereof)
  • The possibility of cross-multiple clouds with Eucalyptus' software
  • Private cloud's growth with Eucalyptus
  • How cloud installation reduces costs and complexities
  • Eucalyptus' strategy for hanging in the cloud game

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