Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #149 for the week June
28th - July 4th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Canonical Delves Deeper
into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, Kubuntu
Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge, Ubuntu Forums tutorial of the week,
Login to Ubuntu Forums with Launchpad Open ID, Canonical Party Welcomes
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations,
Powerpets, Inc. Head Offices switch to Ubuntu, Full Circle Magazine:
Issue #26, Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy, Team Meeting Reports,
and much, much more!

== UWN Translations ==

* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the
information you need.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations

== In This Issue ==

* Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud - Launches Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud Services
* Kubuntu Tutorials Day Spreads the Knowledge
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week
* Ubuntu Forums working on Login with Open ID
* Canonical party welcomes Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
* Ohio Linuxfest Call for Presentations
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Powerpets, Inc. Head offices switch to Ubuntu
* Full Circle Magazine #26
* Vodcast: Dell's Ubuntu Linux Strategy
* June Team Meeting Summaries
* Upcoming meetings & events
* Updates & Security

== General Community News ==

=== Canonical Delves Deeper into the Cloud – Launches Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud Services ===

London: July 1, 2009-- Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project,
today launched new professional services to help and support users
building 'private clouds', cloud infrastructures behind a corporate
firewall.

The move follows the technical preview in April of Ubuntu Enterprise
Cloud (UEC), an open-source system that enables organizations to build
their own clouds that match the interface of Amazon EC2. UEC is now
available as part of the Ubuntu Server Edition technology stack.

By creating private clouds with UEC, organizations can optimize server
use and increase data-centre efficiencies, while lowering costs and
providing end users with self-service IT. Ubuntu is the first Linux
distribution to provide such a system and now Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud
Services from Canonical help businesses build these environments with
optimal efficiency.

“Enterprises are realizing that building 'private clouds' enables them
to better manage variable workloads, while reducing the waste of idle
servers. Building on open-source technology also avoids the issue of
vendor lock-in,” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. “Ubuntu
Enterprise Cloud enables businesses to do this - and the addition of
these services helps them to do it with confidence.”

Canonical has partnered with Eucalyptus, whose eponymous product forms
the base of UEC, to jointly provide the service but with a single
interface for the customer through the Canonical support team.

“While the IT industry talks of future strategies and releases vapour
ware, UEC today allows businesses to deploy and now support a 'private
cloud' on open source technologies from a renowned Linux provider,” said
Woody Rollins, CEO of Eucalyptus. “We are very excited to lend our
expertise to building the type of professional services that will help
more businesses discover the benefits of private clouds built on open
technologies.”
Pricing and Availability

Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services enable users to scale up from a
five-machine environment all the way to a site license covering all
machines, physical and virtual, in a single location.

Yearly pricing for entry-level support for five physical servers and up
to 25 virtual Ubuntu servers is $4,750 for 9x5 standard support and
$17,500 for 24x7 advanced support. Additional support packs are
available per physical server and per ten virtual servers for $1,250
p.a. for standard support and $3,000 p.a. for advanced.

Site support is also available which covers one geographical location.
It includes an unlimited number of physical and virtual servers for
$90,000 p.a. for standard support and $150,000 p.a. for advanced.

To use Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, users must first install Ubuntu 9.04
Server Edition available at no charge from
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-server

To find out more about Ubuntu Cloud Computing, please visit
http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud

To enquire about support, please visit:
http://www.canonical.com/contact/cloud

For more information on Cloud Services, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/services

To keep up-to-date with Ubuntu Cloud activity, follow the cloud blog
aggregator: http://cloud.ubuntu.com

Follow Ubuntu cloud on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ubuntucloud