Episode 2 9
This Week in Cloud Computing #29 with Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems
Wednesdays at 3:30pm PT
On this week’s episode, we speak with Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems about the opportunities that exist at the intersection of open source and the cloud.
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Top News Stories (04:00)
1) New survey data from VMWorld suggests the number of IT organizations planning on building their own private clouds is a lot higher than most people think.
34% have already implemented a private cloud platform, with 23% planning to in the next 12 mos. It’s speculated many are trying to piece together private clouds w existing IT resources.
Article: http://bit.ly/bQ7hxq
2) Salesforce has introduced Chatter mobile, w support for iPhone, iPad, Android and Blackberry apps.
In the realtime collaboration platform’s first three months open to the public, Chatter has been adopted by 25,000 companies; with 25 percent of Salesforce’s client base using the platform. The mobile version lets users monitor their Chatter feeds, which include posts from colleagues and alerts from apps, as well as post status updates and comment on conversations from their devices.
Article: http://bit.ly/9XALmA
The real reason HP and IBM are pushing for private cloud computing: To protect their market share. The theme from VMWorld this year: run – don’t walk – to the private cloud.Article: http://bit.ly/d0KyKO4) Rackspace is courting cloud computing developers with a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
The toolkit lets the 6 million .NET developers easily deploy apps written in VS directly to Rackspace’s cloud infrastructure. Highlights the openness of MSFT VS.
Article: http://bit.ly/c45hLt
5) The cloud computing job market is healthy and growing
According to James Urquhart IT use of the cloud is growing very quickly, and demand for skills to enable that growth is climbing as a result. If you have skills related to IT operations, application administration/operations, or software development, now may be the time to dive into the cloud.
*We have 5 beta codes for VCloud Express to give TWICC fans. Tweet: Thx to @Virtacore for sponsoring #TWiCC! I want a beta invite. #VMworld.
- Formerly Chief Executive at MySQL. Took on CEO of Eucalyptus in March 2010.
- Showed the world how an open source company can successfully monetize even while giving away the software for free. He was part of the MySQL team that helped grow the revenues from 14 Million in 2004 to an estimated 65 Million in 2008.
Watch the episode to hear Marten discuss:
- Eucalyptus’s beginnings as an open source project at UC Santa Barbara
- The Eucalyptus ‘open core’ business model
- The opportunity that exists at the intersection of open source and cloud computing
- The company’s latest $20m investment round this summer led by New Enterprise Associates, and what they’re using it for
- His take on Nimbula, created by the developers of Amazon EC2 cloud service
- How Eucalyptus is addressing scalability with the recent 2.0 release of its Open Source platform. It’s also bundled with Ubuntu.
- His thoughts on the OpenStack project led by Rackspace. How is it different from Eucalyptus?
- New appointments, including Red Hat veteran Said Ziouani as SVP Worldwide Sales
- The company’s partnership with Jamcracker to offer self-service infrastructure clouds. Users can now procure Eucalyptus-based infrastructure THROUGH Jamcracker to easily set up private and hybrid clouds on demand.
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