Under the agreement, the two companies will provide integration between Terracotta technology and Eucalyptus software as well as engage in joint marketing activities.

Terracotta, a infrastructure software that provides affordable and scalable availability for Java applications, and Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., the creator of the open source private cloud platform, today announced a partnership to provide enterprises with an open source solution that maximizes data scalability and application performance in a private cloud environment. The company says that under the agreement, the two companies will provide tighter integration between Terracotta technology and Eucalyptus software as well as engage in joint sales and marketing activities.

It articulates that enterprises adopting cloud architectures can face challenges related to the elastic provisioning of compute clouds on existing data center infrastructure and the inability of the data layer to scale at the same rate as the compute layer. The company claims that now, the combination of Eucalyptus and it allows large-scale enterprises to provision private clouds on the Amazon AWS-compatible Eucalyptus private cloud platform and easily capitalize on the elasticity, latency and flexibility of the cloud.

"Our partnership with Eucalyptus is ideal for enterprises that are adopting the cloud as their IT infrastructure for deploying highly scalable applications to their employees and customers," said Amit Pandey, CEO of Terracotta. "By addressing the scalability of the data layer and the ability to easily provision elastic cloud resources within internal infrastructure, Eucalyptus and Terracotta are empowering enterprises to build the most cost effective private clouds using commodity hardware and the virtualization technology of their choice."

"Terracotta provides a highly effective approach to managing our customers' application data within Eucalyptus private cloud environments, reducing the need to over-invest in costly database software," said Woody Rollins, CEO and co-founder of Eucalyptus Systems. "Together we are making private clouds a viable option for managing critical applications and processes at even the highest workloads."