Touring SUSE's new cloud product
Green Awakening
New cloud management products seem to appear overnight like mushrooms, and cloud solutions are becoming evermore complete. SUSE used its in-house BrainShare 2011 [1] event in Salt Lake City to announce its own recent cloud developments. Michael Miller, who is responsible for partnerships and marketing at SUSE, described the comprehensive cloud solution, which the company hopes will facilitate the task of setting up clouds in data center operations.
ISO images of SUSE's cloud solution were available from the SUSE Studio [2] at the time of Miller's announcement, although pricing for the final version is currently unclear.
SUSE's Cloud Option
How can a cloud vendor tempt a company into setting up a cloud? The key word is integration. Things that are child's play from the cloud user's perspective require a fair amount of work at the system level: Creating new images and virtual machines, booking additional computer cycles, and extending the storage capacity in a web interface all rely on many different background steps. If a cloud vendor can take this responsibility off the shoulders of a company's IT department, it has a powerful argument for customers to opt for the cloud. SUSE's new cloud product sets out to provide this kind of convenience.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) is the system behind the SUSE cloud service, which leads to easy integration for companies that are already operating as SUSE shops. The core of the SUSE Cloud service is the OpenStack cloud framework [3]. OpenStack, which evolved through a cooperation between web hoster Rackspace and NASA, provides the infrastructure needed to integrate IT cloud services with customer networks.
SUSE relies on the Diablo release of OpenStack, which is fairly
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