What is Eucalyptus?

 Posted by Niladri.Biswas on 6/17/2013 | Category: Others Interview questions | Views: 2446 | Points: 40
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Eucalyptus is an open source software platform for implementing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in a private or hybrid cloud computing environment.
The Eucalyptus cloud platform pools together existing virtualized infrastructure to create cloud resources for infrastructure as a service, network as a service and storage as a service. The name Eucalyptus is an acronym for Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems.
Eucalyptus was founded out of a research project in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and became a for-profit business called Eucalyptus Systems in 2009. Eucalyptus Systems announced a formal agreement with AWS in March 2012 allowing administrators to move instances between a Eucalyptus private cloud and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to create a hybrid cloud.


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