Canonical just keeps deepening its commitment to the OpenStack cloud computing platform, to the point where a lot of people who are loyal to the company for its Linux roots may not recognize its business model in a few years. Canonical is now partnering with AMD to upgrade the OpenStack cloud in the box concept that was originally the Ubuntu Orange Box to an OpenStack cloud housed on a rack.
The Orange Box, of course, capitalized on the fact that many people are deploying OpenStack on top of Ubuntu, and the new OpenStack on a rack concept serves up Ubuntu LTS 14.04 and OpenStack in one bundled offering.
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