Canonical Adds OpenStack Support to Ubuntu

While the most reported news about the then version of Ubuntu, version 11.04 aka Natty Narwhal, is the brand new Unity interface, there's bigger news for cloud technologists. Natty Narwhal will include OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform created by NASA and Rackspace last year. Canonical joined OpenStack in February.

OpenStack will compliment Eucalyptus, the open core cloud computing system. "We want people to think of Ubunutu as a Linux platform in other words cloud native," Canonical VP of Business Development told InternetNews.com.

George as well told InternetNews.com that during Ubuntu will support two cloud standards for now, it will in the long run "bless" only one - much like it has "blessed" the KVM hypervisor instead of Xen.

The open source community

Although OpenStack has met with much enthusiasm from the open source community, some crack are starting to show in its governance model as we've reported. For all that, it's a young project with strong research and serious backing.

OpenStack is only a research preview at this stage. However this week's Amazon Web Services outage emphasizes the need for open cloud standards so that servers can be moved easily from cloud to cloud. The clock is ticking.

Advances in Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server Adapters and VMware vSphere 4 allow migration away from legacy Gigabit Ethernet networking.

This white paper provides network architects and decision makers with guidance for moving from GbE to 10GbE networking in their virtualized data centers.