Hi everyone!
I’m looking for some help answering some questions to help LayerBoom and some associated projects determine what companies and individuals really want in their own “Cloud Computing” environment.
I know the Term has been getting worn out, so to summarize, LayerBoom is providing software that helps companies build utility computing environments using existing hardware and [...]

I’ve been working on a project that lets you quickly move systems between your private Xen implementation and Amazon’s EC2 service. There are a lot of hurdles to get this to work, and most of them are surrounding how Amazon doesn’t let you download a Kernel or Ramdisk image out of S3 unless you’re the [...]

Wiki.layerboom.com is up for anyone interested in reading or contributing to documenting the installation and administration of the Eucalyptus Cloud Computing platform. Rather than replace the UCSB documentation, the Wiki is an attempt to supplement that resource, as well as collect common issues in one place.
Check it out at wiki.layerboom.com

At VMWorld today in Las Vegas, VMware announed their newest initiative, vCloud “to Federate Resources Between Internal IT and External Clouds and Enable Broad Application Compatibility for Cloud Computing.”

The vCloud will be one of the many enablers of the Federated Computing environment that people like Tim O’reilly have written about in the past. It’s really [...]