Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud
InformationWeek / Serdar Yegulalp
Conventional wisdom has it that if you want to make use of “the cloud,” you’ve got to use someone else’s service — Amazon’s EC2, Google’s clouds, and so on. Canonical, through its new edition of Ubuntu Server, has set out to change all that. Instead of using someone else’s cloud, it’s now possible to set up your own cloud — to create your own elastic computing environment, run your own applications on it, and even connect it to Amazon EC2 and migrate it outwards if need be.
Novell Sponsors Open Source Research Group
Novell, provider of the community open source project openSUSE and the commercial open source product SUSE Linux Enterprise (Desktop/Server) is sponsoring the Open Source Research Group of the University of Erlangen Nuremberg.
Your readers might be interested in http://drbl.sourceforge.net/ Diskless Remote Boot Linux from National Center for High-Performance Computing, Taiwan, as being a way to interconvert between a set of Windows workstations (common in classrooms planetwide) and a Linux cloud.
Clearly clouds are not for everyone, but they are just right for some, and this is a way to get started.
Of course IBM likes to think that as you scale up, an IBM ‘cool blue’ cloud is the way to go.
Is there a danger that the Western world will get left behind by the Eastern one ? The opportunity is global.