EUCALYPTUS -Hybrid Clouds

EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems - is an open-source software infrastructure for implementing "cloud computing" on clusters. Eucalyptus Systems is the pioneer in open source cloud computing technology that delivers hybrid cloud deployments for enterprise data centers. Leveraging Linux and web service technologies that commonly exist in today's IT infrastructure, Eucalyptus enables customers to quickly and easily create elastic clouds in minutes. This "no lock-in" approach provides users with ultimate flexibility when delivering their SLAs.

Sounds very useful software, let me download and review it. We might ask some of our customers to use this.

Top 150 players in Cloud Computing

This should definitely be starting point for anybody who wants to know more about Cloud Computing, just start here http://web2.sys-con.com/node/770174. My sense is that cloud computing industry will soon have a very well defined tiered structure, just like any industry. This is true because it will mostly draw that structure from the various software industry structures.
To put it simply you will soon hear companies branded as Cloud Computing Business Solutions Providers, Cloud Computing System Integrators, Cloud Computing Service Providers and so on.

Cloud Computing:RightScale

This has been my first day to look at what is really happening in Cloud Comouting. Came across very interesting company called "RightScale" this startup in Sata Barbara, has created products which can be used for range of cloud needs for businesses of various sizes. One of the latest offering from RightScale is a platform made up specifically for BI needs using Talend(Open source data integration), Vertica(columnar architecture database) and JasperSoft(leader in commercial open source BI). It was really interesting to see that real value is being delivered by combining very good proven open source softwares for business usage.