It is now easier to build and play with Hybrid Clouds
Folks,
Canonical released their latest Ubuntu 9.10 family along with the server edition yesterday.... and it is very interesting to note that this standard Ubuntu 9.10 Server Release comes with Eucalyptus configured to run on your servers. Yes, now one can 'build' private cloud off the shelf! Read more at (www.ubuntu.com/cloud)
Canonical calls it Ubuntu EC - much like what is there on Amazon. Much better is this ease of migrating your applications from Ubuntu EC to Amazon EC2 since Canonical and Amazon have agreed to host the Ubuntu EC on Amazon AWS making it possible to run the images from your private cloud on Amazon EC2 without having to make any changes. ... From an enterprise view point, this is a good stepping stone - either to check out applications on the private cloud and then move it to EC2 or to run it in the hybrid cloud mode: enterprise sensitive parts of the large application run on the private cloud while the resource hungry parts run on the public cloud.....
Read more about this release in http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-910-server-edition
Three Cheers to Canonical for making this happen - most folks were struggling either in putting together a private cloud within their firms or in pulling together a hybrid one. This was timely release for those in IT depts as well as researchers experimenting in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service.
Here are my posers to you.... to help point out quick immediately apparent issues or in giving off the cuff suggestions / solutions:
1. Now that we have this server release - what issues do you think is still not addressed in making the private cloud / hybrid cloud setups seamless?
2. While the private cloud may not be as performance efficient as AWS (performance becomes attractive beyond certain threshold levels on the scale..) what do you think we need to do to make this private cloud / hybrid cloud more performance efficient....
Thanks
