Eucalyptus Systems has entered into a partnership with Red Hat which should ultimately facilitate the deployment of clouds bereft of eucalyptus Red Hat software platform.
With this new arrangement, eucalyptus, systems with the help of Red Hat engineers engineers will be easily accessible eucalyptus through Deltacloud of Red Hat, which is a set of overlay API (application programming interfaces) designed to facilitate the interoperability of cloud platform.
The two companies will also be incorporated into the eucalyptus RHEV (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization), KVM (kernel on a virtual machine) open source hypervisor-based virtualization Red Hat package management features.
The work will be "insurance to our users that are running on Red Hat has a good integration between the two products that they won't have to worry about inconsistencies between eucalyptus, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and KVM," said Marten Mickos, CEO of eucalyptus.
The platform of eucalyptus is an implementation opensource EC2 (elastic Compute Cloud), Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and BSE (elastic block storage) API. Users can deploy eucalyptus to implement a private cloud, which can run virtual machines designed to the specifications of the Amazon.
The work of this partnership, all the features of eucalyptus is accessible via Deltacloud. The resulting code will be open source. Mickos provides integration to fulfill, in large part, by the mid-2011, with beta versions will be published soon.
Also in the partnership, some controls management RHEV will be integrated to the eucalyptus. Eucalyptus can already run in virtual machines based on Red Hat KVM hypervisor, but the new work will allow users to "manage certain aspects of the cloud by RHEV, it would be more transparent experience for them it would be otherwise" Mickos said.
Partnership signals as a potential alliance space emerging software of clouds, the two companies share a common competitor to VMware and its VCloud clouds Manager software.
"Red Hat do partner much with corporate software, feel very privileged by the fact that they have chosen to work with us," said Mickos. "And what it brings to us is better access to clients and the ecosystems of Red Hat."
Joab Jackson covers the software business and General technology breaking news for the IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @ Joab_Jackson. Joab e-mail address is Joab_Jackson@idg.com
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