Ubuntu heads to the clouds
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.
