A screenshot of Ubuntu's 9.04
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Canonical (www.canonical.com) announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Dell (www.dell.com) to integrate Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud on Dell PowerEdge servers.
According to the press release, the standard edition allows software developers and IT organizations to run cloud programs in a pre-configured testing and development infrastructure. Ubuntu’s open-source implementation, provided by Amazon Web Services, enables capacity growth and workload sharing.
“Open source is the driving force of cloud computing however we choose to define the concept,” Neil Levine, vice president of Corporate Services at Canonical said in a statement. “This initiative is a great way for US businesses to realize the power of this approach — the efficiency, savings and flexibility it brings and the power it can deliver to any data center — and to start developing their internal cloud infrastructures with hardware and support from a familiar and trusted source.”
Dell says its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers and Ubuntu software will “ship with tested reference architectures and a detailed implementation guide.” The package includes support from Dell and Canonical experts.
“Partnering with Canonical has allowed us to deliver an IaaS solution in a tightly integrated package based on open standards,” said Andy Rhodes, executive director of marketing, data center solutions division at Dell. “This product release fits into our strategy of bringing technologies to market where we can optimize efficiency at every layer, including servers, storage and code. In this way we are making computing resources more accessible to a wider variety of businesses including telcos, hosters, media and entertainment, and financial services, where there is a substantial amount of software development work.”
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