Eucalyptus (computing)
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| Developer(s) | Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. |
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| Initial release | 1.0 – May 29, 2008 |
| Stable release |
4.4.1 (May 9, 2017)
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| Written in | Java, C |
| Operating system | GNU/Linux, can host Linux and Windows VMs |
| Platform | Hypervisors (KVM, Xen, VMware) |
| Type | Private and hybrid cloud computing |
| License | GPLv3 (only), with Proprietary relicensing. |
| Website | www |
Eucalyptus is paid and open-source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments marketed by the company Eucalyptus Systems. Eucalyptus is the acronym for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. Eucalyptus enables pooling compute, storage, and network resources that can be dynamically scaled up or down as application workloads change. Eucalyptus Systems announced a formal agreement with AWS in March 2012 to maintain compatibility.Mårten Mickos was the CEO of Eucalyptus. In September 2014, Eucalyptus was acquired by Hewlett-Packard and is now owned by DXC Technology.
The software development had its roots in the Virtual Grid Application Development Software project, at Rice University and other institutions from 2003 to 2008. Rich Wolski led a group at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and became the chief technical officer at the company headquartered in Goleta, California before returning to teach at UCSB.
Eucalyptus software was included in the Ubuntu 9.04 distribution in 2009. The company was formed in 2009 with $5.5 million in funding by Benchmark Capital to commercialize the software.
The co-founders of Eucalyptus were Dr. Rich Wolski (CTO), Dr. Dan Nurmi, Dr. Neil Soman, Dr. Dmitrii Zagorodnov, Chris Grzegorczyk, Graziano Obertelli and Woody Rollins (CEO).
Eucalyptus commands can manage either Amazon or Eucalyptus instances. Users can also move instances between a Eucalyptus private cloud and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to create a hybrid cloud. Hardware virtualization isolates applications from computer hardware details.
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