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Dell Releases Ubuntu-Powered Cloud Servers

Posted by samzenpus on from the silver-lining dept.

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."

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  1. I submitted this with a better summary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  2. By customized... by exomondo · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...they mean they pre-loaded Ubuntu UEC on them, wow!

  3. Good luck with that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    (Posting anonymously for obvious reasons)

    1. Re:Good luck with that by elashish14 · · Score: 4, Funny

      (Posting anonymously for obvious reasons)

      Yeah, I'd be pretty embarrassed if I had ever bought anything from Dell meself.

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    2. Re:Good luck with that by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 3, Interesting

      paid support with canonical? Debian isn't a corporate entity like red hat.
      Another reason being adoption of ubuntu having a desktop mindshare (Of % of linux desktops) so it's a single platform to support for workstation and server - for dell techs

  4. Re:A POS comment? by jedidiah · · Score: 3, Informative

    The idea that Dell would push Linux in the server space is pretty old news really.

    Contrary to popular Lemming opinion, Microsoft doesn't have the stranglehold in the server market that it has on desktops.

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  5. Re:Failed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you were seriously in the enterprise you'd know that the added cost of a HP over a Dell is well justified. When you need to keep things running on this level there is no time to pinch pennies.

    HP may be the fair to midrange PC on the Best Buy shelf but in the enterprise it kicks the crap out of anyone else. This includes their business desktops.