Ubuntu providing home grown clouds

When one thinks of cloud computing in business terms, it is usually because he or she is considering a move to a cloud offering from Amazon or Google. But some organizations need to offer some cloud applications internally to their customers or employees. While those with large IT development staffs might be comfortable building their own clouds, others need a packaged solution.

Canonical, the company responsible for Ubuntu Linux, is offering a private cloud product called Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. This is something you can run on your own server and offer as an internal service. The projects website explains:

“Using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, you can experience the benefits of cloud computing behind your firewall. Deploy workloads and have them running immediately. Grow or shrink computing capacity to meet the needs of your application.”

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is available through Ubuntu Server Edition, and the website includes instructions for installation. Ubuntu was originally specifically for desktops, but they have been pushing their server edition for quite some time. It is still not clear exactly how many Ubuntu servers are connected to the Web.

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