How CloudLinux OS Intends to Compete with Red Hat, Novell | Linux Today

How CloudLinux OS Intends to Compete with Red Hat, Novell

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2010

[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy
for this link. ]

“A few days ago, The VAR Guy openly wondered how
CloudLinux OS — a new Linux distribution designed for hosting
providers — hopes to stand out in a market dominated by Red
Hat, Novell and several other emerging options. Today, The VAR Guy
got some answers from Igor Seletskiy, founder and CEO of Cloud
Linux Inc. Here’s what he had to say.

“During a meeting at Parallels Summit, Seletskiy described how
CloudLinux OS is designed with multi-tenant users in mind.
“In shared environments, each new customer adds more risk on
the server,” Seletskiy notes. If one application demands too
many CPU resources, he notes, the other customers on the same
server can suffer from degrading performance.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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