Eucalyptus Systems, the open source private cloud company now run by ex-MySQL CEO Mårten Mickos, has teamed up with GroundWork Open Source Inc (GWOS), the monitoring company, to monitor and manage applications running in an on-premise Eucalyptus cloud environment using GroundWork’s Monitor Enterprise Cloud solution. GWOS is now screening users to beta its Enterprise Cloud widgetry and it wants folks with hybrid environments ’cause it can also monitor the Amazon EC2 public cloud as well as traditional data centers based on Linux, Windows and Solaris. Its skills extend to compute clouds like Hadoop and Nutch; databases like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server; middleware like Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere; and of course the LAMP stack.

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