Terracotta Partners with Eucalyptus in the Cloud

To solve this problem, Terracotta has been advocating the adoption of a shared memory server for Java applications that dynamically scales to handle massive amounts of data.

Terracotta today is further extending its cloud computing mandate via a partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, a company that makes open source cloud computing management software that has been optimized for services from Amazon.

Jeff Hartey, vice president of marketing and products for Terracotta, says the agreement creates a framework for dynamically managing Terracotta servers within a cloud computing framework. According to Hartley, databases today are the weakest link in the cloud because they don’t dynamically scale and clustering them is an expensive proposition.

To solve that problem, Terracotta advocates that chief technologists building clouds should use the database only as a repository while relying on Terracotta servers to dynamically process applications.

The Eucalyptus management software is specifically designed to enable that by giving IT organizations the tools they need to control external cloud computing system deployed on third-party provider infrastructure.