Ahead of Ubuntu’s release later this week my latest podcast conversation is with Simon Wardley of the Linux distribution’s commercial sponsor, Canonical.

We discuss Ubuntu Server’s much-anticipated inclusion of the EUCALYPTUS-powered ‘Enterprise Cloud,’ consider the increasingly strong position of Amazon’s EC2 API as a de facto standard in the Cloud, and look at some of the steps still required to persuade Enterprise customers to wholeheartedly embrace Cloud Computing.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon EC2
• Amazon S3
• Amazon Web Services
• Canonical
• CohesiveFT
• Does IT Matter? and my podcast with Nick Carr
• EUCALYPTUS, and my podcast with Rich Wolski
• Google App Engine
• IETF
• Microsoft Azure, and my podcast with Amitabh Srivastava
• Open Cloud Manifesto, and my podcast with Reuven Cohen
• OSCon
• Oracle announces intention to buy Sun Microsystems
• Red Queen Hypothesis
• RightScale, and my podcast with Michael Crandell
• Ubuntu
• Zimki on The Register

This conversation was recorded on Tuesday 21 April, 2009.

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In my latest podcast I talk with Rich Wolski, Director of the EUCALYPTUS Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

EUCALYPTUS is an open source research project with features broadly comparable to those of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and we discuss the project’s genesis, current use, and likely future as it becomes increasingly well known.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• Amazon Web Services
• DARPA
• Department of Energy (DoE)
• EC2
• GoGrid Open API
• Internet 2
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• SETI@Home
• Ubuntu
• University of California, Davis
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• Werner Vogels
• Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
• Rich Wolski

This conversation was recorded on Friday 13 March, 2009.

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