Shuttleworth Highlights Ubuntu OpenStack Cloud Innovations

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.

Plenty of vendors are taking advantage of this week’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta to showcase their open source cloud computing innovations. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has been one of the loudest, with a slew of announcements regarding OpenStack support on Ubuntu, Ubuntu OpenStack training and more.

The announcements came from Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and the former CEO of Canonical who has continued to play a leading role in the Ubuntu world despite having stepped down as CEO of the company in early 2010. During a keynote address at the OpenStack Summit, Shuttleworth discussed an array of developments that, in Canonical’s view, underscore Ubuntu’s competiveness in the open source cloud ecosystem:…

• For $15 per host per day, Canonical is offering a complete OpenStack service based on Ubuntu, which includes infrastructure, software, support and monitoring. This is an interesting direction for Canonical, which is now venturing into the cloud-hosting market…

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