\u201cEucalyptus 3.1 is open for business,\u201d writes Eucalyptus VP of Community Greg DeKoenigsberg in a blogpost. \u201cNo more artificial separation between Enterprise and Community. No more frenzied checkins to the ‘enterprise edition’ while the separate-but-equal ‘community version’ atrophies…(and) no more wondering about what\u2019s on the roadmap.\u201d
\nThe new release features \u201cFastStart,\u201d designed for users \u201cto deploy on-premise, AWS-compatiable IaaS clouds\u201d in less than 20 minutes, according to the company. Source code is now available on GitHub, and there are enterprise platform deployments for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Virtualization, and VMware vCenter 5.
\nWith a nod toward what seems to be an emerging hybrid cloud (and multi-cloud) world, Eucalyptus also notes that the “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers a comprehensive virtualization platform…that provides benefits for cloud deployments, both private and hybrid.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eucalyptus Systems \u201cis enabling 25,000 cloud starts each year, including instances at more than 20 percent of Fortune 100 companies,\u201d the company says. In DeKoenigsberg’s words, \u201cBuild together. Run together. Manage together. That\u2019s been the mantra for this release…we are deeply committed to the open source model, because we believe that it creates the best software, and we\u2019re going to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n