Canonical Releases Ubuntu 9.04 Enabling Private Cloud Computing
Today Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released Ubuntu 9.04.
What makes this release stand out from previous Ubuntu releases is the new Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services.
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services is the first commercially-supported Linux distribution that enables businesses to build private cloud environments inside their firewalls. Companies will now be able to create their own private clouds pretty easily.
The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is powered by open source system known as Eucalyptus. The Eucalyptus API matches Amazons EC2 API. If you really are dying to create your own private cloud, check out the Ubuntu Eucalyptus Getting Started documentation.
Besides supporting creating private clouds, Ubuntu 9.04 will also be fully available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Thanks to the work of Alestic and others, creating an Ubuntu EC2 instance was quite simple. With Ubuntu 9.04, Canonical is taking more of a leading role in helping customers deploy Ubuntu EC2 instances.
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