Enomaly just announced the Alpha release of the Enomalism Elastic Computing Platform. The Enomalism v2.0 Alpha is said to have been completely redeveloped from the ground up and builds on the concept of ” Elastic / Cloud Computing”.

The company hopes to move to a stable beta within a couple weeks. The current release is considered “Alpha” and should be used at your own risk.

New Enomalism Features include:

• Web Services API - RESTful
• Automated VM Deployment with Elastic Valet
• Multi-Server Support
• Virtual Cluster Engine
• Extensible system monitoring integration
• Flexible business process management with SOA (jBPM)
• Integrated appliance / module repository
• Extended User / Group Management
• Elastic Dashboard / Portal Framework
• System Metering (Utility / Chargeback)
• Increased Virtual Machine / Hypervisor Support
• Xen, KVM, Qemu, OpenVZ, Amazon EC2 * (Ec2 Module)
• Support for installation in Linux & Windows
• New Open Source License (AGPL)

For installation Documentation and core distribution download, you can go to http://trac.enomalism.com/enomalism/

Enomaly is looking for early testers to assist them with the following tasks:

• Interface Debugging CSS, JS (IE7,Firefox)
• Platform Testing (Linux,Windows,BSD,OSX)
• Cluster Testing
• Amazon EC2 Testing
• Repository / Appliance Testing
• Module Testing
• User Management Testing
• REST API Testing
• Anything else that needs fixing

If you are interested in lending a hand, please visit the Enomalism forums at
http://www.enomalism.com/resources/community-center/

[Source: Open Management Consortium blog]