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CohesiveFT Adds Internal Eucalyptus Cloud Deployment Option to Its Elastic Server(R) Platform
Custom Elastic Servers Configured, Assembled, and Deployed to Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
| Source: Cohesive Flexible Technologies
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - April 23, 2009) - CohesiveFT (http://www.cohesiveft.com), the
leader in onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing
infrastructures, today announced a technology preview of Elastic Server
deployment to Eucalyptus private clouds. Elastic Server Personal Edition
users can now dynamically deploy custom servers to a private Eucalyptus
cloud infrastructure hosted on their own network. This technology preview
comes on the heels of the release of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition which
includes a technology preview for the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud powered
by the open-source Eucalyptus system.
"The inclusion of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud in the Ubuntu 9.04 Server
Edition release opens up many opportunities for private cloud computing in
the enterprise," said Simon Wardley, Software Services Manager Canonical.
"CohesiveFT is well positioned to help organizations leverage this new and
exciting technology."
With the combined solution from Canonical and CohesiveFT, organizations can
build, populate, and evaluate internal Eucalyptus clouds without the
latency or security issues associated with public cloud computing.
Additionally, Eucalyptus shares API compatibility with Amazon Web Services'
EC2, giving organizations interested in migrating to the cloud a suitable,
local test environment.
Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition has made Eucalyptus extremely easy to configure
and deploy through its integration into Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Elastic
Server can be used to automatically deploy custom servers to Ubuntu
Enterprise Cloud infrastructure quickly and easily. Users merely provide
their private cloud URL and credentials in the secure Elastic Server
platform, rapidly assemble servers in the factory, and have their servers
delivered automatically upon completion to their private cloud. The
initial technology preview allows all of Elastic Server's supported guest
operating systems to be deployed to Eucalyptus clouds. Support for Ubuntu
9.04 as a guest OS will follow shortly.
"Now organizations wanting to explore private cloud infrastructure only
have to fire up Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition and the Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud," said Patrick Kerpan, CTO of CohesiveFT. "They don't have to become
expert at KVM virtualization or creating Eucalyptus compliant images. Once
finished they can start deploying and launching Elastic Servers to their
newly created private cloud in minutes."
"We are excited to be working with industry-leading partners like
CohesiveFT to build an ecosystem around the launch of Eucalyptus on Jaunty
Jackelope," said Rich Wolski, CTO of Eucalyptus Systems Inc. "By
supporting popular cloud APIs, the combination of industry-leading
partners, Eucalyptus as an open-source cloud infrastructure, and Ubuntu
provides a powerful new platform for developing and deploying cloud
applications."
The Elastic Server platform is a complement to virtualization and cloud
offerings. Users assemble custom servers by choosing from a library of
popular components. Once assembled, these custom application stacks can be
configured to a variety of virtualization and cloud-ready formats,
downloaded and deployed in real-time. There are over three thousand users
of the service who have assembled more than seven thousand Elastic Server
images for public and private use. The addition of the Eucalyptus internal
cloud deployment format highlights CohesiveFT's platform momentum following
recently introduced support for ElasticHosts, KVM, Virtual Iron, and Ubuntu
and Fedora operating systems
About CohesiveFT
Cohesive Flexible Technologies provides onboarding solutions for virtual
and cloud computing infrastructures. CFT's Elastic Server platform is a
web-based factory for creating, deploying, and managing custom
multi-sourced servers comprised of horizontal, open source and third-party
software components. Additionally the VPN-Cubed® packaged service gives
customers control of networking in the clouds, across clouds, and between
their private data center and the clouds. For more information, visit
www.cohesiveft.com.
Elastic Server and VPN-Cubed are registered trademarks of CohesiveFT.
Ubuntu is a trademark of Canonical, Inc. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2) is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. All other marks and names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.