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Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers
angry tapir writes "Dell has released two servers for the US market that have been customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services. The company has outfitted its PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers with Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation of the Eucalyptus private cloud software that runs on the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system."
There is much better option for the cloud servers and it is a Own Cloud http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page
It is totally open source, free software, developed for single users, privat corporations and public use.
User is not tied to Canonical propietary and privat ecosystem.
ps. Ubuntu is not a operating system. Linux kernel in the Ubuntu is the operating system. Ubuntu is just a software system, one of the few hundreds of the Linux distributions. People has better futures when staying away from Canonicals products.
Dell blah blah blah Ubuntu blah blah blah cloud blah blah blah enterprise blah blah blah three letter acronym blah blah blah server edition blah blah blah
Yeah. I was going to say that, but then I decided that my time would be better spent trolling an easier target.
Seriously? Ubuntu, cloud computing, and Dell. It's like they're actively trying to make me not give a shit.
...they mean they pre-loaded Ubuntu UEC on them, wow!
We purchased 16 C2100s in August. If you like being a Dell beta tester, have at it. The LSI RAID controllers they have in these things are, for a lack of a better word, complete crap. Technically, it's probably the drivers ... but until they have a working driver for linux that doesn't lose its mind and reset the card randomly (thus making your volumes disappear for a minute or two), I suggest staying away. Far away.
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oops. That should be "harder", not "easier". I don't know what I was thinking.
Slashdot is so fucking useless. They can't even figure out how to implement an "edit your post" feature.
You're so fucking useless. You can't even figure out how to implement a "proofread your goddamned post" and "the preview button is there for a reason" feature.
Say what you will, Dell's in trouble. So they'll push OSS but only as long as Pappy Ballmer doesn't take Michael out to the wood shed for a good whuppin'. As for Ubuntu? Well, I don't run Linux, but if I did it sure as hell wouldn't be Ubuntu.
Why buy Linux from a traditionally Windows-only integrator with little Linux experience? There's plenty of very skilled Linux hardware integrators out there. I'm a shill for my favorite, Silicon Mechanics.
*sound of crickets*
Never mind. The downtime from having multiple, random nodes in the cloud burn out at regular intervals isn't worth it.
Call me when Canonical gets a real company to back this setup.
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Just a thought, would be interested to try os-x if I could get it pre-loaded on a dell.
The Dell Dock bar for Ubuntu is in the making! Energy saving, resource scheduling and process priority is now a thing of the past. Combine it with Intel Turbo Boost for best results.
One of the selling points of the cloud is the ability to spin up new server instances whenever they're needed. So why then would anyone need to buy a bunch of approximately equivalent servers for local development/testing/staging when all they have to do is set up a new environment in the cloud? Seems like a product designed for people who fundamentally misunderstand the whole paradigm.
Ya, right. Try to be far from it. Panda Cloud Antivirus Download Free.
I love that. In keeping with pure Open Source tradition, if it's not there, YouDon'tNeedItAnyway(TM)
No, that's the Apple tradition.
The open-source tradition is: "If it's not there, WriteItYourself(TM)".
They can't even figure out how to implement an "edit your post" feature.
Yes they can, they choose not to. Read the FAQ. Slashdot doesn't want a memory hole feature, it wants people to be able to reply to posts without worrying that the contents of the post that they replied to will change by the time people read it.
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The idea is that after half the internet calls you a dumbass for something a dumbass would do you can't go back and change your dumbass idea and say you're not a dumbass.
Dumbass.
We decided to go with proxmox after seeing how many problems there were with kvm on 10.04 that were not being taken seriously, such as disk image corruption. Maybe that has changed?
FTA: "Organizations could use the servers to test the applications locally before uploading them to Amazon's paid service. The servers have a preconfigured testing and development environment. Eucalyptus duplicates the AWS APIs (application programming interfaces)." At first, I was like, They're just selling the PowerEdge server + cloud buzzword. However, a local Dev and QA environment for AWS is nice, especially if its already configured to behaving like AWS. One problem with running stuff on AWS is troubleshooting and reproducing performance problems.
One of the selling points of the cloud is the ability to spin up new server instances whenever they're needed. So why then would anyone need to buy a bunch of approximately equivalent servers for local development/testing/staging when all they have to do is set up a new environment in the cloud? Seems like a product designed for people who fundamentally misunderstand the whole paradigm.
Maybe you don't understand how the paradigm is actually concretely implemented. Servers remotely hosted in the cloud aren't magic, somewhere, there is an actual data center, with actual servers, running software that provides the "cloud" features.
Some enterprises with many functions want to have the benefits of the cloud (e.g., dynamic provisioning of resources among the various applications the enterprise is running), but prefer in-house hosting.
Some operations, additionally, want to actually host cloud services for their clients.
Either of these operations need to have actual servers in-house, running software that provides the "cloud" features.
This is the market for local cloud servers.
Micron a well respected name? Dell, at the time, had a better less expensive product that was supported by the best tech support in the business. Times have changed however.
Microsoft has been embracing Linux for over a decade now as well - They're obviously open-source friendly and showing their worth as a team player http://www.mslinux.org/
Non sequitur. The argument that Dell being or not being a Linux-integrator (or a Windows-only integrator) is logically independent of MS position (and ulterior motives, whichever they might be) with respect to Linux and/or open source.
In fact, the truth or falsehood of one company X using and providing services based technologies Y is based solely on one yes/no question and nothing else: does company X provides services based on Y? Their position, promotions and motivations (ideological or economical) are of no consequence to true/false value of that question.
Besides, the original question and statement centered about whether Dell had experience doing integration with Linux, not about its allegiance to open source (and the former does not depend on the later independently of what the FOSS chickenhawks would like to sing). If that had been the topic under discussion, then maybe your post might have had some logic. But it wasn't.
Maybe you don't get the point of cloud computing. It's not new technology that allows you to do things never done before. It's cheap technology that allows you to do what you can already do, but cheaper, and with the ability to grow cheaply. Even the most expensive hardware can fail, so if you really need uptime, you buy two (at least) of anything and configure failover and load balancing, etc. "Cloud" computing is simply the idea of doing this at a large scale so you can bring more equipment online and move things around quickly, easily and cheaply. The real question is not whether or not nodes fail, but whether or not nodes are cheap enough that you've got plenty of extras on hand so you don't have to much care when they do. (And, of course, whether or not the cloud platform makes the failover setup quick and easy and reliable, but that's UEC's problem, not Dell's).
Of course, I've never though of Dell's as particularly cheap (though cheaper than IBM and Sun). But for the record, I work with hundreds of dell server and workstation machines running Debian and Red Had they mostly work just fine, LSI raid and all.
Should have sold some space to computer world.
slashdotted doh!
great! more power to them
Remind me the next time I neglect to put a gigantic [FoghornLeghorn]That's a joke son...[/FoghornLeghorn] humor tag in there.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
It's still a freakin server in a freakin room serving you freakin data! If cloud computing was exactly what they say it is, god would be downloading porn faster than the rest of us! boom!