Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus (www.eucalyptus.com)
released its rst product in 2008.
Nowadays the company provides its
software as open source products
and services. (Recently, Eucalyptus
was bought by HP, a supporter
of OpenStack.) From the company’s
download area, you can install a private
cloud on your computer. From
its product area, you can contract
servers for your private cloud.
Eucalyptus software’s main advantage
is its AWS compatibility (see
Table 3), based on a partnership with
Amazon. So, some features that AWS
makes available for the public cloud
are applicable to Eucalyptus services.
Eucalyptus software’s weak
points are the limited GUI and the
risk of uncertainty generated by
AWS’s private-cloud strategy: AWS
offers Amazon Virtual Private Cloud
and a connection to a hardware VPN
(virtual private network).