Private cloud features

Canonical has started advertising the private cloud features in the upgrade of its Ubuntu Linux operating system, which was officially announced earlier this week. Available for free download from the end of October, 9:10 Ubuntu Server Edition is the UEC (Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud), open source cloud computing environment based on the same API and Amazon EC2 (Elastic Computer Cloud). Canonical says that the greatest benefit from this safe to have business users and what this release is focused cloud computing as a whole, said Steve George, director of support services for Canonical.