Virtualization
With it’s second pick in the cloud draft Ubuntu chooses OpenStack…
Over at Desktoplinux.com they have a story about Canonical’s annoucement that they have decided to go in a new direction with their cloud offering. Instead of using Eucalyptus they will be migrating to OpenStack. This will also mean that instead of supporting a E2C API they will be switching to the OpenStack API. This means very little for most people but if you were thinking about building a private cloud with Ubuntu’s solution it is a pretty significant switch. In our opinion OpenStack is the better choice for both you and Ubuntu. The project has huge backers like NASA, RackSpace, Dell, Cisco and intel to name a few. It’s also gained a lot of momentum. If you have looked at it check it out here.
Red Software + Blue Hardware = Purple Private Clouds
ZDNet.com has a cool article about the alliance between Red Hat and IBM starting to bring something to the market. It appears that what they have been working on is a packaged appliance like Cloud solution. With Red Hat KVM Based virtualization and IBM Hardware they plan to make devices and sets of servers to compete with the ones being created by Cisco, EMC and VMWare. Competition is cool but can they unseat the VMWare team? Only time will tell.
Turnkey Linux takes it to 11…
Turnkey Linux announced that they have updated their version of Ubuntu on the popular Turnkey Servers to 10.4, the latest Long Term Support version. They have also added a few new VM’s. If you haven’t checked out what they have to offer now is a great time to do so. The servers are easy to setup and support VMware, Parrallels, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2, and other virtualization platforms.
Virtual Box 4.0 First Look…
In case you missed it Sun Oracle Virtual Box 4.0 has been released. We here at Linuxinstall.net have been a huge fan for sometime. Brian even uses it to host a firewall. The 3.x stream of development has been stable and easy to use. We are doing some long term tests and will probably be releasing a review of some of the top virtualization options later this year. We found a nice first look to hold you over until then over at linux-mag.com. Ken Hess gives a quick run down and concludes that you will want to give it a try but you should probably wait to put it in production until later this spring when they have some of the remaining bugs worked out. It’s a short article and a good read so go check it out.
Episode 31 -Linux and a virtualized world…
1) Introduction
2) News
Centeralized Logging
Is Corporate America Letting Desktop Linux die on the vine?
Are we over the hill? Have we peaked? Will our pay only go down from here?
3) Topic of the night
Our thoughts on how to virtualize your environment
4) Conclusion
Recommendations for People to interview
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