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Canonical Extends Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Support to 10 Years
BERLIN — In a keynote at the OpenStack Summit here, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Inc and Ubuntu, detailed the progress made by his Linux distribution in the cloud and announced new extended support.
The Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Long Term Support) debuted back on April 26, providing new server and cloud capabilities. LTS releases have always come with five years of support, but during his...
Amazon Web Services Enters On-Premises Cloud Server Market with AWS Outposts
Ever since it first invented the modern cloud market, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been primarily focused on enabling customers to benefit from its public cloud infrastructure. At AWS re:invent on Nov. 28, the cloud giant broke the mold, announcing its new AWS Outposts service, which brings the AWS cloud and AWS hardware to on-premises deployments.
"AWS Outposts are fully managed and configurable compute and...
What is Failover Clustering?
A failover cluster is a set of computer servers that work together to provide either high availability (HA) or continuous availability (CA). If one of the servers goes down, another node in the cluster can assume its workload with either minimum or no downtime through a process referred to as failover.
Some failover clusters use physical servers only, whereas others involve virtual machines (VMs).
The main...
