Linked by snydeq on Wed 14th Oct 2009 10:38 UTC
Canonical's Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will include private cloud capabilities, thanks to support for the open source Eucalyptus project, InfoWorld reports. Available for free download on Oct. 29, Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition will introduce Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, an open source cloud computing environment based on the same APIs as Amazon EC2. Users will be able to set up 10 to 15 private servers, leveraging the same capabilities they would use with Amazon, thereby allowing them to take their applications off the Amazon cloud and put them instead into a private cloud, or vice versa
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Cloud Computing (taken from Wikipedia) is "a computing capability that provides an abstraction between the computing resource and its underlying technical architecture (e.g., servers, storage, networks), enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction."
Cloud computing is what people have already been doing for years, just without the web-based stuff. It is a client server model by definition, where the client uses resources stored on a server, whether it is an application or files. This used to be the norm back with the mainframe and dumb terminal days, and continues with all kinds of application servers designed to do just that. They have been in use for years. There is certainly nothing new about the idea, nor is it revolutionary. It is just the latest IT buzz word to throw around at the water cooler.