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Dell's PowerEdge C2100

Dell has outfitted its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers with Canonical’s Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) in order to serve Ubuntu-based cloud services.

These Ubuntu cloud servers are very useful for companies developing applications to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). These companies can take advantage of the PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers to test applications locally before uploading them to the paid AWS platform.

The servers have a preconfigured testing and development environment, Eucalyptus, which duplicates the AWS APIs. Eucalyptus is a private cloud software that runs on the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system.

The C2100 server is suggested to act as a cloud compute node, while the C6100 one can act either as a cloud compute server or as both a server and a node.

This is the first time that Dell sales Linux-based Ubuntu OS on their servers, although it has used Ubuntu Desktop Edition for some of their netbooks, laptops and PCs.

Dell is making a good approach for companies that want to improve their applications and to save money on the same time.

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There is a weakness vulnerability in in the random generator used by OpenSSL in Debian and derivated distributions.

Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in the OpenSSL package of Debian is predictable. So, it is strongly recommended to update the OpenSSL package in Debian and its derivated distributions, like Ubuntu. Moreover, all cryptographic key material which has been generated by OpenSSL versions starting with 0.9.8c-1 on Debian systems must be recreated from scratch.

Ubuntu published: “This vulnerability only affects operating systems which (like Ubuntu) are based on Debian. However, other systems can be indirectly affected if weak keys are imported into them.”

There are many hosting providers that started upgrading their Debian or Debian-based servers. Please be aware that it is a critical necessary security upgrade, so, please prepare yourself in both technical and budget areas to face this situation.

On this time, Debian and Ubuntu had published fixed upgraded packages of the OpenSSL software. Please visit the following sites, to download them as well as to make a further reading and news updates.

For Debian: Fixed OpenSSL packages and further reading.

For Ubuntu: Fixed OpenSSL packages and further reading.

The well known security researcher H.D. Moore, creator of the MetaSploit project, has published very interesting findings about the OpenSSL vulnerability. Please check it here

Moore explains the cause of the bug and how easy is for attackers to take advantage of the OpenSSL vulnerability in Ubuntu, Debian and derivated distributions.