2014年5月19日星期一

Canonical's cloud-in-a-box: The Ubuntu Orange Box

Canonical's cloud-in-a-box: The Ubuntu Orange Box

Canonical had an unexpected secure by OpenStack Summit: It's an Intel-powered, cloud-in-a-box.

As smear Shuttleworth, creator of Canonical, the mother company of Ubuntu Linux, made his keynote speech by OpenStack Summit indoors Atlanta, he announced many newborn Ubuntu OpenStack cloud and Juju DevOps initiatives.

Here's I beg your pardon? He didn't expect: The revelation with the aim of really grabbed the OpenStack crowd's attention was Canonical's cloud-in-a-box — Ubuntu Orange Box.

The Orange Box, an OpenStack cloud indoors a box, is designed to stay luggable; the coordination is a crumb slighter than a roll-along travel case. By 37.4 pounds on behalf of the company itself (PDF Link) and 70 pounds with the accessories indoors its running away project, it's a crumb too deep to leave higher than your seat. But, prominent Canonical produce marketing executive smear Baker, "It's impartial light a sufficient amount to stay shipped having the status of checked luggage."

Inside the Orange Box, you'll obtain ten Intel micro-servers powered by Ivy suspension bridge i5-3427U CPUs. All mini-server has four cores, Intel HD Graphics 4000, 16GBs of DDR3 RAM, a 128GB SSD nose CD, and a Gigabit Ethernet haven. The main central processing unit besides includes a Centrino Advanced-N 6235 Wi-Fi Adapter, and 2TB Western Digital relentlessly drive. These are all connected indoors a cluster with a D-Link Gigabit switch. Leave it all calm and you induce a 40-core, 160GB RAM, 1.2TB SSD cluster indoors a box.

The Orange Box, which was designed by Canonical and the UK central processing unit OEM unworried PC, sells on behalf of £7,575.00, or else approximately $12,750.

Indoors his keynote, Shuttleworth understood with the aim of "you can organize whatever thing with these Orange Boxes." all is loaded with Ubuntu 14.04, and OpenStack Icehouse. Each company besides includes Juju and Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) cloud management and exploitation tools. "These are a imposing way to realize how to exploit dispersed systems," added Shuttleworth.

Specifically, Canonical is using them on behalf of JumpStart training. JumpStart is Canonical's OpenStack training series, which comes with an Orange Box with the aim of trainees can keep on behalf of two weeks while they realize to run OpenStack with Juju and MaaS. It besides includes two occupied days of technical training.

So, from someplace Canonical sits, the Orange Box was really inescapable to commit OpenStack cloud users a taste of Ubuntu's attitude to OpenStack. They weren't inescapable to stay a sales entry indoors and of themselves. Baker explained, "This is a instrument to an put an end to." That's I beg your pardon? Canonical concept, anyway.

Having the status of Chris Kenyon, Canonical's senior VP on behalf of worldwide sales and topic development, told me the subsequently day of the week: "We've had relations go up to the stall defective to order a hundred of them." not inconsiderable companies look by the Orange Box and think it over a way to quickly and without problems deploy an OpenStack cloud indoors remote offices and twigs. Slight companies think it over it having the status of a one-stop way to add a secretive cloud to their company devoid of some fuss or else muss.

Indoors a conversation subsequent to the keynote, Shuttleworth agreed with the aim of they hadn't likely this kind of reply.

Right away, Canonical — which has rebuff require to induce into the hardware topic by this stretch — is faced with giant demand on behalf of their cloud-in-a-box. What's a company to organize?

Baker voted for with the aim of the Orange Box is generating a delivery of concentration from corporate customers. By smallest amount lone personal told me with the aim of — $12,750 value tag aside — he was impressed a sufficient amount to stay thinking with the aim of Canonical ought to "Shut up and take my money." His concept was to exploit it having the status of a Steam gaming member of staff serving at table. Indoors actuality,  Dustin Kirkland, Canonical's Cloud Solutions produce executive, had blogged: "It besides makes lone torture of a Steam member of staff serving at table -- there's a [Juju] charm on behalf of with the aim of."

Baker told me with the aim of while Canonical has rebuff unchangeable strategy yet on how to convene the demand, the company is chatting to capability customers indoors the EU, US, and Asian markets on the subject of their rations. Personally, I encompass rebuff doubt with the aim of via unworried PC, other OEMs, resellers or else coordination integrators, Orange Boxes are free to happen to a in style topic hardware sideline on behalf of Canonical.

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