EucaNews: Your October 2011 Cloud Newsletter

EucaNews: Your Cloud Newsletter | October 2011


EucaNews: Your Cloud Newsletter	OCTOBER 2011

CONTENTS
• Welcome to Our Encore Issue!
• Cloud Computing Survey Brief
• 5 Steps to Enterprise-Grade, Elastic Clouds
• Video Interview: DevOps and Private Clouds with Eucalyptus
• The Roadmap to Your Automated Development/Test Cloud
• Q&A: CTO Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus 3
• Evaluating the Private Cloud Infrastructure Landscape

Attend Euca Social 2011

Customers, partners and the entire Eucalyptus community are invited to attend Euca Social 2011 on November 10 at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara from 5-10 pm.

Graziano Obertelli Featured on FLOSS

In this video, FLOSS Weekly interviewed Eucalyptus' Graziano Obertelli to get an overview of Eucalytpus and cloud computing, the development processes and community engagement.

There's also a discussion about retooling existing IT structure or introducing new hardware - check out the podcast.

Join Our Weekly Community Meetings

Join us for our weekly Community Meeting on IRC. You can find us every week on #eucalyptus on freenode.net at 2:30 pm Pacific (21:30 GMT).

The latest focus has been on Launchpad, instructing new members of the community on how to use Launchpad, and on syncing up the reported issues with our internal issue tracker.

In-person Private and Hybrid Cloud Training

If you're interested in learning how to build your own private or hybrid cloud, Eucalyptus and RightScale are hosting a "Zero-to-Cloud" training session at the Santa Clara Convention Center on Thursday, November 10.

This seminar will be taught by both a Eucalyptus and a RightScale trainer and will consist of lecture, demo, and hands-on activities, all for only $199.

Drinking Our Own Champagne

In the software industry, when a vendor uses its own product internally it is often called eating your own dog food.

But with Eucalyptus headquarters only an hour away from wine country, we prefer to think of it as drinking our own champagne.

Read our recent blog post to find out how Eucalyptus Systems leverages our own technology to run our business and the lessons we have learned in the process!

Visit Us at Cloud Expo

Eucalyptus is sponsoring and exhibiting at Cloud Expo West at the Santa Clara Convention Center November 7-10.

Check out our speakers, come visit us in booth #615, grab a Eucalyptus t-shirt, and meet the team to learn about on-premise clouds.

Eucalyptus Wins 2011 BOSSIE Award

Eucalyptus recently received a prestigious 2011 BOSSIE award from Infoworld in the Data Center and Cloud Software category.

The best of open source software awards are presented annually by Infoworld's Test Center to recognize the most promising and cost-effective products available to IT organizations.

For more information, visit the Eucalyptus website or fill out this brief form and we will reach out to you within one business day.

For Eucalyptus community questions or comments, visit our community page or send us an email at community@eucalyptus.com.

You can also call us toll-free at +1 (866) 456-3822 or send an email to info@eucalyptus.com with general questions and a Eucalyptus representative will follow up with you.

Welcome to Our Encore Issue!

This is the second issue of EucaNews, and we've listened to your feedback and made the articles shorter and more relevant to the needs of the Eucalyptus community.

We hope you enjoy this issue, and if you have feedback you'd like to share or content you'd like covered in future issues, please email us at newsletter@eucalyptus.com.

Cloud Computing Survey Brief

Eucalyptus recently posted an online questionnaire to identify cloud computing trends and applications.

Download this complimentary Cloud Computing Survey Brief, which summarizes the survey results and the aggregated views of the 385 respondents and provides a snapshot of informed opinions on issues affecting the cloud computing community.

5 Steps to Enterprise-Grade, Elastic Clouds

If your organization has been looking into deploying a private cloud, you'll need to know the five steps to take to initiate its development.

In particular, there are key operational and IT processes that organizations must agree upon in order to build a cloud successfully.

Play this archived webinar to hear Eucalyptus CTO Rich Wolski explain how to bring about greater efficiencies within the data center through an enterprise-grade elastic cloud.

Also hear Wetpaint.com IT & Operations Manager Tony Flint describe real-world experiences and lessons learned from implementing a private cloud at his organization.

Video Interview: DevOps and Private Clouds with Eucalyptus CEO and CTO

View this impromptu interview of Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos and CTO Rich Wolski, where they discuss the integration of development and operations and the role of the private cloud.

They also discuss scalability, emerging trends, and open source growth in the enterprise.

The Roadmap to Your Automated Development/Test Cloud

Play this webcast sponsored by Eucalyptus and Electric Cloud and learn how to successfully address the development and IT issues involved in building an Agile Development Cloud.

You will learn:

How to evaluate whether your organization would benefit from an Agile Development Cloud
The strategic roadmap for marrying speed, agility, and automation in both Development and Infrastructure groups
How to deploy an Agile Development Cloud

View the webcast to learn more.

Q&A: CTO Rich Wolski on Eucalyptus 3

Visit OStatic and read this brief Q&A with Eucalyptus CTO Rich Wolski where the interviewer asks:

What are the most important things we should know about the upcoming release of Eucalyptus 3?
How will Eucalyptus 3 features be implemented in the open source version versus the commercial version?
Why is high availability so important for enterprise clouds?
What are the key differentiators of Eucalyptus 3 that people deploying applications should keep in mind?
And more...

Evaluating the Private Cloud Infrastructure Landscape

Download this free analysis from WiseClouds that offers eight key considerations when evaluating private cloud IaaS platforms and provides guidance on an optimal selection strategy for private and hybrid cloud IaaS platforms.

You'll gain access to a collection of vital questions that you can ask of any potential supplier, and view a list from WiseClouds of established as well as up-and-coming products along with their key strengths and optimal usages.