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United States : UBUNTU to expand into cloud server through 14.04 release [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Canonical is positioning the Ubuntu OS as integral part to enterprises expanding onto cloud and scale-out computing platforms. This is reflected in the make-up of Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, which will be available to download soon. As with previous LTS releases, 14.04 includes the open source cloud infrastructure deployment and management framework OpenStack. With 14.04 Canonical has also certified the OS to run on 64-bit ARM-based microservers, as an efficient way of running simple or parallel workloads, such as serving web content. The release introduces support for the Docker containerisation engine, which provides some of the scalability and portability of benefits of virtualisation but requires less underlying memory and storage. 14.04 s release with its integration with the OpenStack will drive businesses to broaden their use of Ubuntu. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company |