...would-be web visionaries have floated the idea of a meta-cloud - a cloud-of-clouds, if you will. With this extended metaphor, you could access multiple clouds from a single web interface, seamlessly moving tasks from one to the other. If one disappears, another is there. ...
As our customers need more transcoding, we just spin up more machines, and when they need less transcoding, we just tear those machines down."...
Source: The Meta Cloud - Flying data centers enter fourth dimension • The Register
- US gov opens Cloud shop to combat runaway IT costs • The Register
Cloud Myths Dispelled | Eucalyptus
cloudkick | blog Cloud inteoperability
VMware Support
With Eucalyptus EE VMware support, turn your VMware-based virtualized environment into an Amazon AWS compatible on-premise cloud. You can also run your Amazon Machine Image (AMI) instances on your VMware-based hypervisors on-premise (Includes an image converter that helps users develop VMware-enabled Eucalyptus applications that are compatible with Amazon EC2). This means that one can now seamlessly manage environments with multiple hypervisors (Xen, KVM, vSphere, ESX, ESXi) under one management console. Source: Feature Tour | Eucalyptus
