Ubuntu Server — for scale out computing
The leading platform for scale out Ubuntu helps you make the most of your infrastructure. Whether you want to deploy a cloud, a Hadoop cluster or a web farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale out performance available.
What’s new in 13.04
Juju
- High Availability for key OpenStack components built into Juju charms
- New charms for Ceph, node.js, Ruby on Rails, and Django
- Charms have built-in SSL support
- Full production-level Juju GUI
OpenStack
- Grizzly backported for 12.04 LTS, available through
Cloud Archive - Ceilometer metering tool monitors usage and resources
- Further development of Quantum, OpenStack’s virtual networking API
Scale out at speed with Ubuntu on HP Moonshot
Ubuntu, the leading OS for x86 and ARM Hyperscale is partnering with HP to disrupt the server marketplace with
HP Moonshot system — launching April 2013.
Ubuntu is the scale out leader and is fully integrated in the
HP Moonshot system.
Performance and versatility
Fast, secure, deploy-anywhere technology for fast-moving companies
It doesn’t matter whether you want to deploy a NoSQL database, web farm or cloud. Ubuntu has the performance and versatility you need. Certified by leading hardware OEMs and with comprehensive deployment tools, so you can get the most from your infrastructure.
Our regular release cycle means that we support most of the latest applications. And our lean initial install and integrated deployment and orchestration technologies makes Ubuntu Server a great solution for simple deployment and management at scale.
Works with all your hardware and software
Scale without restrictions
With no licence fees or subscription costs, Ubuntu Server can help you scale your data centre efficiently. Its streamlined architecture and automated deployment capabilities enables you to deliver more services with less computing power and fewer resources.
A release schedule you can depend on
Stay up-to-date with free and regular updates and upgrades
The Ubuntu Server release schedule fits in with your business needs. Standard releases every six months help you stay up-to-date with the very latest hardware and software changes. Long-term support (LTS) releases, supported for five years, are perfect if you're looking for more stability over a longer period of time.
Support and systems management
Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical, offering efficient systems administration software, fast problem resolution and access to experts when you need them.
Juju — service orchestration
With over 100 services ready to deploy, Juju enables you to build entire environments in the cloud easily with the Juju Designer GUI. Juju works with public clouds like Amazon Web Services and HP Cloud, private clouds built on OpenStack or raw bare metal via MAAS.
MAAS — bare metal provisioning
MAAS is a system that makes it quick and easy to set up the physical hardware base on which to deploy complex services that need to scale up and down dynamically, like Ubuntu’s OpenStack cloud infrastructure.
Deploys anywhere
Choose from the most popular public clouds
Want the power of Ubuntu Server in the public cloud? Ubuntu Cloud Guest offers all the goodness of Ubuntu Server, specially tailored for public cloud infrastructures and without any licence restrictions.
We provide images for more public cloud providers than anyone else and we make sure they’re kept up-to-date. That means you can choose the very best software, hardware and services to meet your needs.
Ubuntu Server is available now for:
- Amazon Web Services
- Rackspace Cloud
- HP Cloud
- Internap
- Microsoft Windows Azure
Our big data partners
Built for big data and cloud
Speed and simplicity, on bare metal or in the cloud
With its new rapid deployment tools, Ubuntu significantly speeds up the installation of server instances on bare metal. And our service orchestration tool, Juju, makes deploying big data services surprisingly simple — on bare metal or in the cloud. That's why vendors like 10gen, Cloudera, Couchbase, DataStax, Hortonworks, LexisNexis and Map-R partner with us.
The fast track to virtualisation
Ready to boost efficiencies and reduce costs? Virtualise your servers with Ubuntu Server and KVM. When you use a secure, lean version of Ubuntu as a guest operating system for your application, you can create virtual machine images in minutes. KVM, Xen, VMware and LXC are all supported.
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