Canonical is promoting these days their new product, Ubuntu Cloud Jumpstart, a service that promises to deploy a private cloud infrastructure on the client's hardware. How it works? Simple! During five days, a Canonical services engineer and a Canonical engagement manager will build your private cloud on your own servers."Canoni... (read more)
Cloud computing seems to be all the rage these days. It’s not just a passing fad of course, it’s actually a very real business and a state of the art. The problem is that cloud computing means many things to many people, whether it’s public cloud, private cloud, software, infrastructure or platform as a service, etc.
The news and analysis on open source cloud computing keeps flowing after the CloudOpen conference in San Diego last week. New data from IDC released during the conference shows users overwhelmingly support the open cloud, but some bloggers are still skeptical that the open cloud is being defined too broadly.
If the idea of a 'private cloud' seems like an oxymoron (perhaps because 'cloud' implies the resources are out there somewhere and you don't really care where, but an organisation has to know where its own resources are), try this definition for size: private cloud equals virtualisation plus automation plus self-service.
I am trying to play around with Ubuntu's private cloud and have some questions.
Do I have to install the server edition for the private cloud?
Is it free?
Does any one know of any tutorial or guide on setting it up that isn't just marketing?
Cloud.com today announced CloudStack™ 2.2, the latest version of its innovative open source cloud computing platform. CloudStack is a comprehensive, open source software solution that accelerates the deployment, management and configuration of highly-scalable public and private infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds.
Written by: Stephen Withers | Published in: Cloud ServicesLarger organisations in Australia and New Zealand favour a blended public/private cloud strategy, but there still seems to be some confusion about the definition of 'cloud'.
There’s increased awareness of the rapidly maturing cloud services market amongst Asia Pacific CIOs over the past 12 months, and in good news for vendors, they are seemingly ready to start making commitments in the cloud space, although there are still remaining concerns about security and availability.
Written by: Beverley Head | Published in: NetworkingMore than four out of five Australian organisations want their data kept onshore when they adopt cloud computing.
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