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Enomaly Unveils Elastic Computing Platform After Years of R&D

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Enomaly today announced Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform (ECP), after having released an Alpha version in March of this year. ECP is an open source, programmable, cloud computing infrastructure for businesses looking to design, deploy and manage virtual applications in the cloud. With its official product launch, Enomaly is shifting its business from a services organization to a software products and support company.

Enomaly’s ECP is designed to work alongside a company’s existing virtual data center providing time and money savings. An intuitive, browser-based dashboard makes it easy for IT personnel to efficiently plan deployments, automate VM scaling and load-balancing; and, analyze, configure and optimize cloud capacity.

The Enomaly ECP is available for immediate download. Proprietary enterprise licenses of the software are available. With the release of the Enomaly ECP, the company is offering paid Web-based and phone support packages. The three plans are: Silver — Web-based support for up to 25 incidents per year; Gold — Phone and Web-based support for up to 50 incidents per year; and Platinum — Phone and Web-based support for up to 100 incidents per year plus assistance and advice with cluster architecture and virtual machine and application design.

Build Your Own Cloud!

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Given enough hardware, you can now build your own Amazon Elastic Cloud or similar platform. And all in Open Source.

A group of developers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara has recently released a tool that can make your personal Cloud dreams come true!

EUCALYPTUS – Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems – is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing “cloud computing” on clusters. The current interface to EUCALYPTUS is compatible with Amazon’s EC2 interface, but the infrastructure is designed to support multiple client-side interfaces

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus has been developed in the MAYHEM Lab within the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, primarily as a tool for cloud-computing research. It is distributed as open source with a FreeBSD-style license that does not restrict its usage much. Eucalyptus 1.0 targets Linux systems that use Xen (versions 3.*) for virtualization.

Eucalyptus is based on the Rocks cluster management platform. In the future, the EUCALYPTUS team will offer a source release along with other methods of deployment.

Being API compliant with Amazon EC2 means you can reuse the tools you already wrote for Amazon and effectively build your own while not having to change your applications. EUCALYPTUS also opens the door for other organizations with spare CPU cycles to offer Virtual Machines instances at a competitive price.

Eucalyptus 1.0 was just released last month and the ISO iso available for download.

See also the report on Ostatic.

If you’re interested in this topic, you should check out Structure 08, an upcoming conference on cloud computing, infrastructure and virtualization (we’re a media partner for this event).

Enomalism 2.0 Available For Download, Beta Testers Wanted

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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”.

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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]