Jamcracker Enters into a Partnership Relation with Eucalyptus Systems

To enable enterprises to self-provision Infrastructure-as-a-Service private and hybrid clouds, Jamcracker (News - Alert), the unified cloud services delivery and management company has collaborated with and Eucalyptus Systems, creators of the leading open source private cloud platform.

The IT departments, owing to the integration of the Jamcracker and Eucalyptus platforms are allowed to automate the process of procuring the resources and building infrastructure clouds. At the VMworld 2010 conference, being held this week, Eucalyptus Systems and Jamcracker will be highlighting this new solution.

The organizations, through Jamcracker Platform Enterprise Edition are able to provision and control both public and private cloud services. Meanwhile, the IT departments, via Eucalyptus cloud platform are allowed to set up their own private clouds and move workloads among internal servers, or to and from Amazon Web Services (News - Alert).

A turnkey solution for procuring through Jamcracker all the resources required to implement scalable IaaS-style private and hybrid clouds using the Eucalyptus platform is provided by the integration of both platforms.

“The adoption of private and hybrid cloud technologies is growing rapidly as a means for large enterprises to access the efficiencies of public clouds and maintain the security advantages of on-premise clouds,” Steve Crawford, vice president of marketing and business development for Jamcracker, said. “Through this partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, we are providing organizations with a pre-integrated solution that makes it easy to centralize the resource provisioning, creation, and management of private clouds as wells as hybrid clouds that can tap computing resources in the public cloud.”

“Self service is essential for any cloud infrastructure, and Jamcracker provides a proven solution that can help businesses unify IT services across private, hybrid and public clouds and deliver them in a single point of provisioning for end-users,” Matt Reid, vice president of sales and marketing at Eucalyptus Systems, said. “We welcome Jamcracker to the growing ecosystem of partner solutions that extend the benefits of the Eucalyptus cloud platform.”

In related news, Jamcracker has announced the Jamcracker Platform Enterprise Edition, which addresses the growing problems associated with ad hoc cloud services adoption within corporate networks.