We have been tinkering with the Sun Storage Service, which is a component of the upcoming Sun Cloud Services Environment in a private beta. Checkout the screencast for a preview of the features.
If you are a Sun partner or a Sun employee with access to the preview version of the service, send an email to support at ylastic.com, and we will get you setup to use Ylastic with your storage account.
You can now manage your Eucalyptus based cloud services for free with Ylastic from a web browser, an iPhone or an Android based phone. We just released support for Eucalyptus version 1.4.x, and are also working on supporting the new features in the Eucalyptus 1.5 release.
Eucalyptus is the first addition to our multi-cloud support. You can either setup a completely new Ylastic account for managing Eucalyptus, or add Eucalyptus support to your existing Ylastic account and manage both the clouds from a single interface! Here is a screencast showing off the basic feature set.
The list of features along with things that we are working on is available from the new support site. Check it out and let us know what you think.
Sun Microsystems announced their cloud services initiative today at CommunityOne East in NYC. Ylastic is one of the partners for the Sun Cloud and will be providing full support for it.
Sun is making available a core set of RESTful open APIs called the Sun Open Cloud Platform under the Creative Commons License to the community. Anyone can contribute and help improve it by participating in the discussions at Project Kenai. Additionally, they are building a Sun Cloud on top of these APIs to provide both storage and a compute service. Sun is putting forward the concept of building your own Virtual Data Center(VDC) and getting away from the server images mindset. This was one of the highlights in the demo by Lew Tucker at CommunityOne East this morning. Drag and drop to create, connect and load balance your datacenter resources, and a few clicks to either run it or copy the entire datacenter to a staging or test version! Very, very cool!
The Sun Storage Cloud based on the rock solid ZFS was introduced and is completely accessible through either WebDAV or an S3 compatible API. You can now save your documents from within Open Office directly to Sun Cloud through a simple plugin. There are lots of innovative things coming out of the Sun Open Cloud Platform and we are very excited to be a part of it!
Ylastic is featured as one of the cool cloud management applications in the latest Gartner Cloud Computing Research Note. Thanks to Gartner for checking us out and the mention! Cheers 
You have been using AWS for a while. You store files at will on S3, serve them up through CloudFront, query your metadata on SDB, check your queues for messages, launch instances to munge data to save the world, and so on. You understand the cost part, but want something more. You want to get a feel for how you are using the cloud, and a little bit of color to brighten up things and part the gray clouds - maybe even graphs and charts, gasp! Ylastic now gives you a visualization of how you are using EC2, S3 and SDB - for the current month or for the year.
We are also working on adding even more anlaytics to Ylastic
Ylastic now provides a mobile SimpleDB query browser for the iPhone and Android based smartphones. Pick the domain that you want to search, type in the query in SDB format and off you go. The search will retrieve upto a maximum of 10 matching items and their attributes, so you don’t need to wade through 100s of matches on your mobile phone.
This is pretty cool for Macheads like us
You can can now view the metadata for a SimpleDB domain in Ylastic.
- Total size of items in bytes
- Total number of unique attribute names
- Total size of unique attribute names in bytes
- Total number of attribute values
- Total size of attribute values in bytes
This gives you a good base for understanding the amount of storage used by your domains or for estimating the cost of that storage.
