Dell Announces Ubuntu Powered Cloud Servers

Dell has announced the release of two servers, PowerEdge C2100 and C6100, powered by Canonical’s Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), based on Eucalyptus. Targeting the US market, the integrated solution will enable Dell’s customers to easily deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

The standard edition allows software developers and IT organizations to run cloud proof-of-concept programs by providing an optimized, pre-configured testing and development environment. Ubuntu’s open-source implementation of the de facto cloud-computing standard provided by Amazon Web Services, allows workloads to be easily shared with external providers for capacity growth.

“Open source is the driving force of cloud computing however we choose to define the concept,” said Neil Levine, vice president of Corporate Services at Canonical. “This initiative is a great way for U.S. businesses to realize the power of this approach – the efficiency, savings and flexibility it brings and the power it can deliver to any data center – and to start developing their internal cloud infrastructures with hardware and support from a familiar and trusted source.”

According to Andy Rhodes, executive director of marketing, Data Center Solutions (DCS) Division at Dell. “This product release fits into our strategy of bringing technologies to market where we can optimize efficiency at every layer, including servers, storage and code. In this way we are making computing resources more accessible to a wider variety of businesses including telcos, hosters, media and entertainment, and financial services, where there is a substantial amount of software development work.”