Can Eucalyptus be the "Lucene" of cloud computing?

Eucalyptus is an open source cloud platform which can be used to create private clouds. It came out of a research project at the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The good thing about it is that it has an open and modular architecture, which means it is perfect for experimenting with different kinds of innovations in cloud computing platform development.

Sounds like Lucene, the open source text search engine that with its extensible design became a vehicle for a lot of innovation in search - leading to innovations like Solr, Nutch, Hadoop, HDFS, etc.Whenever a platform is made open, and its design made modular, extensible - it becomes the hotbed of innovation. That happened with Unix, Linux, and is now happening with Android. Will Eucalyptus take cloud computing there?

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Comment by Tarun Rathor on January 11, 2011 at 7:35pm: There is lot of debate about whether there can be anything called as private cloud. While one group of folks argue that a private cloud is against the very notion of cloud as you still have to plan and provision the hardware for the peak cloud. So hardware is not elastic. The software stack can be elastic.

Makes sense.

However there are privacy and regulatory concerns which demand that there should be ways to build private cloud. Even though these private clouds are not pure clouds in terms of hardware provisioning still there can be incremental benefits to move the software stack to an elastic architecture.

But the good thing is that there is choice available today. And definitely an open cloud platform will enable better research as these clouds can be customized for a particular domain.