Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab Launched at CoreSite's Bay Area Data Center Campus

Eucalyptus Systems (News - Alert), creators of the most widely deployed on-premise cloud computing platform has introduced new enterprise-class cloud test lab offering at CoreSite's (News - Alert) Bay area data center campus to address the growing demand for cloud computing technologies.

“CoreSite is pleased to provide the data center infrastructure to support Eucalyptus' new Cloud Test Lab offering," said Brian Warren, VP of product management at CoreSite. "This offering provides our enterprise data center customers with a secure, risk-managed testing environment for their cloud migration strategies. The Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab demonstrates CoreSite's commitment to developing Cloud computing ecosystems for our customers.”

With fast and easy setup, Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab is a complete cloud-ready data center solution. Offering hosting, hardware and Eucalyptus open source cloud software, the solution enables customers to configure virtual cloud resources, experience full elastic-compute resource management, and demo their applications on private cloud software. Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab will operate on innovative Dell (News - Alert) infrastructure provided by Dasher Technologies. Companies can purchase the exact cloud environment used during the testing phase to reduce the business and technical risks often associated with cloud adoption.

To validate their cloud application migration strategies prior to implementation, the Eucalyptus Cloud Test Lab provides enterprises with a secure, fully functional hosted infrastructure as a service cloud. The official product launch date is set for March 1, 2012. Companies can deploy hosted private and hybrid clouds with a new level of confidence by validating the technical and business benefits of specific use cases prior to migration, the company stated in a press release.

Recently, the company announced the income tax allocation for federal income tax purposes of its 2011 distributions on its common stock (CUSIP: 21870Q105). Under the tax rules applicable to real estate investment trusts such as CoreSite, a portion of the January 14, 2011, distribution applied to tax year 2010. The remaining portion of the distribution is applied to 2011 for federal income tax purposes.