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Eucalyptus: the unsung hero of Open Source?

March 02, 2009

Posted by: Tom Callway ShareThis

Eucalyptus is an open-source infrastructure for the implementation of
cloud computing on computer clusters. Its name is an acronym for
"Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To
Useful Systems".

The current interface is compatible with Amazon's EC2 cloud computing
interface. Tom Callway speaks to Rich Wolski, the project's director,
about how Eucalyptus can be leveraged by enterprises and where it sits
along side proprietary alternatives like Windows Azure.

1) Can you tell us what led you and your team to develop Eucalyptus?

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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1927&blogid=17

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