Region 15 Cloud Efforts
Posted by jfluhmann on May 8, 2009
Here at Winters ISD, we’ve been fortunate to have acquired some new equipment a few months ago that will not fully be used until this summer. That has given me some time to experiment with various open source cloud infrastructures. The projects that I’ve been looking at include:
Both Eucalyptus and OpenNebula are included in the repositories for the newest version of Ubuntu (9.04). With all things considered, I think I’m going to focus my efforts on Eucalyptus. Some of the main reasons are that it’s now a focus for Canonical, it’s interface is compatible with Amazon’s EC2, S3, and EBS interfaces, so basically any third-party tools “should” work with Eucalyptus, and they just landed $5.5M in funding. I’m an Ubuntu guy, and with Canonical focusing efforts toward an Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud using Eucalyptus, it seems a great way to go.
I’m keeping track of my thoughts, ideas, and progress at the Region 15 SchoolTech wiki.
