Thursday, October 23, 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 released, with significant improvements in its version for cloud servers


Ubuntu has become its own right in one of the friendliest linux distributions eligible to all those users who wish to install and use on your desktop. In fact, just leave the new version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, available for download including its variants. From the outset, it appears to be a consideration only with all updated packages and version upgrades on the desktop, but the fact is that this update does highlight where it is in its version for cloud servers, such as pointing from ZDNet .
Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn has a number of popular technologies like Cloud Foundry cloud, elasticsearch, Hadoop, Apache Storm, among others. The point of support for containers is another feature with which you can run more application instances instead of allowing virtualization solutions like KVM or vanilla. With regard to development operations (DevOps), Ubuntu has that can be considered as better high-level tool: Juju, the latest version makes it easier to deploy and scale applications in the public or private cloud, or after recovery by MaaS (Metal-as-Service) Canonical. MaaS makes Ubuntu 14.10 is a completely consistent system in both the x86 and x64 as well as ARM, ARM64 and Power 8, being a server operating system for all architectures.
MaaS is also available to other server operating systems such as Windows Server, among others. Ubuntu 14.10 also supports OpenStack Juno, which offers users more control policies in object storage, greatly improving support for Hadoop data and taking in beta support for virtualizing the network function (NFV ). Further note that Ubuntu is already the most popular OpenStack Linux, which will push others OpenStacks have to catch up with Canonical.

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