~这些年，我翻过的英文二三事儿~05~惠普收购开源云先锋Eucalyptus

原文地址：http://www.wired.com/2014/09/hp-eucalyptus/

原文：

Tech giant HP is acquiring Eucalyptus, makers of an open source system that helps companies build cloud computing services in their own data centers.

Following the deal, Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos will become senior vice president and general manager of HP’s cloud business, reporting directly to HP CEO Meg Whitman. HP’s current head of cloud, CTO Martin Fink, will shift
his attention to other areas of the company, such as the blue skies research division HP Labs.

According to Bill Hilf, senior vice president of product, services, and strategy for HP’s cloud business, who will report to Mickos, the acquisition provides a needed leader for the company’s cloud operation and additional engineering
talent needed to expand and hone the company’s cloud software and services—technology that provides a means of building and hosting large online software applications. But, he says, the buy also immediately fills a gap in HP’s technology. It provides a way
for customers to dovetail private cloud services in their own data centers with the popular public cloud service from Amazon.

“That’s really what Eucalyptus provides: AWS interoperability,” he says, referring to Amazon Web Services, the web company’s sweeping collection of cloud offering. “It lets customers build an app in their own data center, and
then they can, say, push that same application to AWS.”

HP is just one of many tech giants seeking to offer software that will let business span private and public services in this way. From VMware to Microsoft, these are companies aiming to serve companies that want to keep some
technology in house—for reasons of cost, security, and privacy—but also take advantage of public cloud services, which provide a more convenient and flexible way of building and running software applications

At first blush, the move seems odd. HP’s cloud efforts have been focused on OpenStack, an open source cloud system that competes with the similar technology offered by Eucalyptus. OpenStack was originally created by NASAto
overcome limitations in Eucalyptus’ technology. And Mickos has long been critical of OpenStack, calling it the “Soviet
Union” of cloud technology.

But the move isn’t as unlikely as some might think. Mickos has recently changed his tune regarding the competition. “OpenStack is (in my humble opinion) the name of a phenomenon of enormous proportions,” he wrote in ablog
post explaining why he was keynoting an OpenStack conference. He still expressed concern about the collective governance of OpenStack—which is what led him to compare OpenStack with the Soviet Union—but he wrote that
he actually wanted Eucalyptus to become a real contributor to the OpenStack project.

The thrust of his post was that OpenStack and Eucalyptus fill two very different needs. Eucalyptus helps companies build private clouds that are compatible with Amazon’s public clouds. OpenStack, on the other hand, helps power
web giants like eBay who aren’t worried about Amazon compatibility. “Eucalyptus is the name of a tightly focused piece of software that serves a unique use case,” he wrote.

Mickos’ assessment of the differences between OpenStack and Eucalyptus is debatable. Cloudscaling, for example, offers a version of OpenStack designed for Amazon compatibility. But his new found love for the project it does show
how much progress OpenStack has made, and how much his own view has changed.

Additional reporting by Cade Metz

以下则是我的译文：

科技巨头惠普正收购一家帮助公司在他们自己数据中心搭建云计算服务的开源系统制造商Eucalyptus。

交易之后，Eucalyptus的首席执行官马顿米克斯将会成为高级副总裁以及惠普云商务的总经理，可以直接向惠普首席执行官梅格惠特曼报告。惠普现任云服务负责人是首席技术官马丁菲克，他将把自己的注意力转向公司的其他领域，比如惠普实验室分部门蓝天。

根据比尔惠福的说法，高级副总裁关于惠普云商务的产品、服务和战略都将报告给米克斯，这个认可为公司的云操作提供了必须的领导者、额外的工程人才来拓展和提高公司云软件和服务以及创建和开发大型线上软件应用的技术。但是，他表示，这项交易也能立刻填补惠普的技术差距。它为消费者提供了完美契合他们自己数据中心的私有云服务和来自亚马逊的公共云服务的方式。

“这便是Eucalyptus所真正提供的：亚马逊网页服务的互操作性，”他说道，提及亚马逊的网页服务，这家网站公司能提供全面的云产品。“它使得用户可以在他们的数据中心创建一个应用程序，然后推送同一应用程序到亚马逊网页服务中。”

惠普只是众多寻找能让业务纵横私有公有服务软件的科技巨头之一。从VMware到微软，这些公司致力于服务那些由于成本、安全和隐私的原因想把一些技术保留下来的公司，同时也利用能提供更方便灵活的创建运行软件应用程序方式的公有云服务。

乍一看，这项举动似乎很奇怪。惠普的云重心一直放在OpenStack平台，这是一个和Eucalyptus有着类似技术存在竞争的开源云系统。OpenStack最初是由美国国家航空航天局创建用来克服Eucalyptus技术的局限性。米克斯也一直批判着OpenStack平台，称之为云技术的“苏联”。

这项举措可能在一些人看来不太可能。关于这场竞争，米克斯最近也改变了他的论调。“OpenStack（依我的拙见）是规模巨大的。”他在博客中解释为什么他以一次OpenStack大会为主基调。他仍然表示他对于OpenStack集体管理的担忧，这会让他不由自主地将苏联和OpenStack对比，但是他写道，他确实希望Eucalyptus能成为OpenStack项目的真正贡献者。

他的职务推力就是使得OpenStack和Eucalyptus满足两个完全不同的需求。Eucalyptus帮助公司建立与亚马逊公有云相匹敌的私有云。另一方面，OpenStack帮助并不需要担心亚马逊兼容性问题的网站巨头例如eBay。“Eucalyptus的名字来源于一款服务独特用途的软件。”他写道。

米克斯关于OpenStack和Eucalyptus不同点的评估备受争议。比如，Cloudscaling，提供了为亚马逊兼容性设计的OpenStack版本。但是他新发现对这个项目的喜爱确实展示了OpenStack所取得的进展大小以及他的观念的转变多少。

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