Private cloud:

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

Private clouds offer immediacy and elasticity in your own IT infrastructure. Using Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, you can experience the benefits of cloud computing behind your firewall. Deploy workloads and have them running immediately. Grow or shrink computing capacity to meet the needs of your application.

 
Immediacy

Provides a self-service IT capability that enables new applications to be rapidly deployed whenever needed.

Elasticity

Applications can dynamically use more resources within the cloud when required ensuring users needs are met immediately.

Compatible technology

With Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud offering the same APIs as the dominant public cloud offering, Amazon EC2, you can build your applications to run on either platform.

Bursting

Overloaded applications running on your private cloud can expand to use resources from the public cloud.

Rapid deployment

Create your initial cloud infrastructure in minutes and grow it over time. The current record stands at 25 minutes to have a private cloud running.

Security

Data is kept behind the firewall on company infrastructure, requiring fewer changes to existing governance, security and audit procedures.

Optimize resources

Building a private cloud enables existing hardware and network infrastructure to be used. Providing the benefits of a cloud while maximimsing the return on existing investments.

Trust

Uses Ubuntu's trusted, stable and lean operating system within the cloud environment.


Canonical delivers a complete solution

Consulting »
Canonical can identify opportunities and advise on technical, regulatory and skills challenges in your organisation. We will guide you through prototyping and deploying your cloud infrastructure.
Training »
A set of training courses to certify system administrators in the technologies they need to be effective on both private and public cloud infrastructure.
Support »
A full support program for cloud infrastructure built on Ubuntu.
Management »
Tools to deploy, monitor and manage your cloud, including Canonical's Landscape.