Ubuntu’s Koala food mixes with Windows VMs

“Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) 2.0 includes support for
Windows virtual machines, letting you hoist Windows Server 2003,
2008, and Windows 7 images atop a Eucalyptus cloud — not just
Linux images — and it includes new billing, accounting, and
user management tools. New CEO Marten Mickos — the former CEO
of MySQL AB — also promises ‘improved scalability.’

“Like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Eucalyptus provides
on-demand access to scalable compute and storage resources. But
whereas EC2 runs on servers in distant Amazon data centers,
Mickos’s platform is meant for internal use. It’s a way for
businesses to build a private EC2 inside their own data
centers.”

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