Canonical & Dell bring private Ubuntu Clouds to Servers

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux has partnered with Dell to bring its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) to business users on Dell's PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 rack servers.

"UEC is made up of Ubuntu server instances running on the open-source Eucalyptus cloud platform. This Ubuntu cloud system is designed to work as a private cloud, but it can also be used with public Amazon EC2. While Ubuntu is usually though of as the Linux for the masses, UEC is a pure business IT offering."

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