Dell brings Ubuntu powered cloud servers

LONDON, UK: Dell announced that it will release two servers, PowerEdge C2100 and C6100, for its US customers powered by Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is based on Eucalyptus private cloud software.

The standard edition allows software developers and IT organizations to run cloud proof-of-concept programmes by providing an optimized, pre-configured testing and development environment.

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Workloads can be shared with external providers for capacity growth due to Ubuntu's open-source implementation of cloud-computing standard provided by Amazon Web Services to deploy private cloud infrastructures.

PowerEdge C servers and Ubuntu software will ship with tested reference architectures and a detailed implementation guide plus support from Dell and Canonical experts.

"Open source is the driving force of cloud computing however we choose to define the concept," said Neil Levine, vice president, Corporate Services at Canonical. "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 centre - and to start developing their internal cloud infrastructures with hardware and support from a familiar and trusted source."

"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 (DCS) 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."