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Eucalyptus (software), the Glossary

Eucalyptus is a paid and open-source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments, originally developed by the company Eucalyptus Systems.^[1]

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Free software for cloud computing
Hewlett-Packard acquisitions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. Eucalyptus (software) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud are cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms.

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Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.

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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Eucalyptus (software) and Amazon Web Services are cloud infrastructure and cloud platforms.

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AppScale

AppScale is a software company that offers cloud infrastructure software and services to enterprises, government agencies, contractors, and third-party service providers. Eucalyptus (software) and AppScale are cloud platforms, free software for cloud computing and virtualization software for Linux.

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Autoscaling

Autoscaling, also spelled auto scaling or auto-scaling, and sometimes also called automatic scaling, is a method used in cloud computing that dynamically adjusts the amount of computational resources in a server farm - typically measured by the number of active servers - automatically based on the load on the farm.

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Benchmark (venture capital firm)

Benchmark is a venture capital firm founded in 1995 by Bob Kagle, Bruce Dunlevie, Andy Rachleff, Kevin Harvey, and Val Vaden.

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C (programming language)

C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.

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Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Eucalyptus (software) and Cloud computing are cloud infrastructure.

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Cloud storage

Cloud storage is a model of computer data storage in which data, said to be on "the cloud", is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users over a network, typically the Internet.

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Computer Sciences Corporation

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was an American multinational corporation that provided information technology (IT) services and professional services.

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Direct-attached storage

Direct-attached storage (DAS) is digital storage directly attached to the computer accessing it, as opposed to storage accessed over a computer network (i.e. network-attached storage).

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DXC Technology

DXC Technology Company is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia.

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Goleta, California

Goleta (Spanish for "schooner") is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

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Hardware virtualization

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise

The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas.

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Hewlett-Packard

The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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HPE Helion

HPE Helion was Hewlett-Packard's portfolio of open-source software and integrated systems for enterprise cloud computing. Eucalyptus (software) and HPE Helion are cloud platforms.

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Hypervisor

A hypervisor, also known as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) or virtualizer, is a type of computer software, firmware or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines.

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Infrastructure as a service

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a cloud computing service model by means of which computing resources are supplied by a cloud services provider.

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Internet protocol suite

The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.

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IP address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is assigned to a device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.

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Java (programming language)

Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible.

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Kernel-based Virtual Machine

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a free and open-source virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor. Eucalyptus (software) and kernel-based Virtual Machine are free software programmed in C and virtualization software for Linux.

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Linux

Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Eucalyptus (software) and Linux are free software programmed in C.

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Load balancing (computing)

In computing, load balancing is the process of distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources (computing units), with the aim of making their overall processing more efficient.

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MAC address

A MAC address (short for media access control address) is a unique identifier assigned to a network interface controller (NIC) for use as a network address in communications within a network segment.

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Mårten Mickos

Mårten Gustaf Mickos (born November 6, 1962, in Espoo, Finland) is a technology executive based in San Francisco.

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Open-source software

Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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Rice University

Rice University, formally William Marsh Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Software

Software consists of computer programs that instruct the execution of a computer.

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Storage area network

A storage area network (SAN) or storage network is a computer network which provides access to consolidated, block-level data storage.

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Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.

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University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States.

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VMware

VMware LLC is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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Xen

Xen (pronounced) is a free and open-source type-1 hypervisor, providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. Eucalyptus (software) and Xen are virtualization software for Linux.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_(software)

Also known as EUCALYPTUS, Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems, Euca2ools, Eucalyptus (computing), Eucalyptus Systems Inc., Eucalyptus computing, HPE Helion Eucalyptus.

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Free software for cloud computing

Hewlett-Packard acquisitions

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