OpenBD gains Eucalyptus Cloud support

With the popularity of cloud services on the rise and deeper integration into our CFML applications, OpenBD has always enjoyed deep access with the likes of Amazon and Nirvanix when it comes to cloud storage connectivity.

We've just dropped a whole a new bunch of functionality into the core OpenBD1.4a engine, that completely replaces our Amazon S3 connectivity while providing support for open source cloud platform Eucalyptus.

Eucalyptus provides a complete open source alternative for many of the cloud services, enabling enterprises to run their own internal scalable computing clouds. This addresses many security concerns that a lot of companies are hesitant about when looking to employ external 3rd party cloud providers.

We would like to thank aw2.0 for donating their high-performance cloud connectivity libraries for accessing Amazon. OpenBD has been using aw20's libraries for SimpleDB and SQS for nearly a year now. With this library comes support for Eucalyptus as well as a number of extra features exclusive to the Amazon S3 service.

The following S3 storage specific functions have been added:

AmazonS3Delete	Deletes the remote file
AmazonS3GetUrl	Returns back a signed URL that gives people public access to a given file, with an optional expiration date
AmazonS3List	Returns all the keys for this bucket
AmazonS3ListBuckets	Returns all the buckets for this account
AmazonS3Read	Copies the remote file from Amazon S3 to the local file system
AmazonS3Rename	Rename the remote file
AmazonS3SetAcl	Sets the ACL on the given object
AmazonS3Write	Copies the local file upto Amazon S3

This functionality is now ready for use through our early OpenBD1.4 nightly release and also via our CFML stack OpenBDJam through its upgrade cycle.