Eucalyptus Systems Aims For Private Cloud Dominance

Marten Mickos is working on a joke. He has the opening line -- "An app guy, an ops guy, and a VMware sales guy walk into a bar..." -- but he hasn't figured out what the punchline is, yet. Mickos is the former CEO of MySQL AB. Today he's the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, developers of private infrastructure as a service solutions, and he thinks about "The Cloud" a lot. Eucalyptus Systems is releasing version 3.1 of their infrastructure as a service (IaaS) product today, with a number of new features, improved installation options, and a renewed commitment to open source. Eucalyptus is what Mickos considers the "cloud guy" in his unfinished joke. According to him, the cloud itself should be the product. It should be wholly integrated with existing technologies, and as easily upgraded as any other product. It is, in short, a whole new way of thinking about computing.

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