Ubuntu Server geared for future clouds

From InfoWorld: The next version of Canonical's Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, due out April 28, will set the stage for the open-source operating system's greater usage in the enterprise cloud, company officials said.

"People running private clouds will start really scaling those over the next several years. So what we care about is the ability to expand as customers deploy more and more servers into the cloud," said Steve George, Canonical's vice president of business development.

"On the server side, a lot of our focus has been on getting [into the OS] as many of the new cloud features and capabilities as we can, which then we'll stabilize and polish on our way to the next LTS release," George added.

Canonical develops LTS [long-term support] server releases for organizations that need ultra-stable and highly supported versions of the OS. The company supports these versions for five years, in contrast to the typical two-year support cycle of most server releases, including this one. The next LTS release, 12.04, is due in April 2012.

The version to be released next week, which was code-named Natty Narwhal during development, updates a number of packages essential for cloud deployments, George said.

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