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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On July 1, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu in partnership with Eucalyptus Systems, an open-source cloud infrastructure firm, will be launching Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services.
In a statement, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s CEO said, “Enterprises are realizing that building ‘private clouds’ enables them to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle servers. Building on an open-source technology also avoids the issue of vendor lock-in. Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this–and the addition of these services helps them to do it with confidence.”
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services will enable users to scale up from a five-machine environment all the way to a site license covering all machines, physical and virtual, in a single location. The Enterprise Cloud is built with Ubuntu 9.04 servers.
Support pricing starts at $4,750 and goes up from there based on the usual factors such as the number of servers and support level. To find out more about this new service, you should visit the Canonical Server Cloud page.
Original from ComputerWorld Blogs.
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