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From: za kAT on 10 Apr 2010 19:31 On 10 Apr 2010 23:25:10 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:21:53 +0100, za kAT wrote: > >> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:17:18 -0700, Craig wrote: >> >>> What I'm looking for is something similar to box.net or spideroak but >>> as a "private cloud," that is on our own servers... E.g. not >>> Canonical's. >> >> Ubuntu appears to offer that? >> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private > > Uh? Canonical = Ubuntu. Does this not say you can install on your own servers? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC I dunno, I've only just seen this, but it looks that way to me. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: za kAT on 10 Apr 2010 19:35 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:31:02 +0100, za kAT wrote: > On 10 Apr 2010 23:25:10 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:21:53 +0100, za kAT wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:17:18 -0700, Craig wrote: >>> >>>> What I'm looking for is something similar to box.net or spideroak but >>>> as a "private cloud," that is on our own servers... E.g. not >>>> Canonical's. >>> >>> Ubuntu appears to offer that? >>> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private >> >> Uh? Canonical = Ubuntu. > > Does this not say you can install on your own servers? > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC > > I dunno, I've only just seen this, but it looks that way to me. There's a set up tutorial here with links to a forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private-steps -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: Gordon Darling on 10 Apr 2010 19:38 On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:35:40 +0100, za kAT wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:31:02 +0100, za kAT wrote: > >> On 10 Apr 2010 23:25:10 GMT, Gordon Darling wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:21:53 +0100, za kAT wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:17:18 -0700, Craig wrote: >>>> >>>>> What I'm looking for is something similar to box.net or spideroak >>>>> but as a "private cloud," that is on our own servers... E.g. not >>>>> Canonical's. >>>> >>>> Ubuntu appears to offer that? >>>> >>>> http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private >>> >>> Uh? Canonical = Ubuntu. >> >> Does this not say you can install on your own servers? >> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC >> >> I dunno, I've only just seen this, but it looks that way to me. > > There's a set up tutorial here with links to a forum. > > http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private-steps I'll have a closer look, thanks. -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Craig on 10 Apr 2010 20:09 On 04/10/2010 04:21 PM, za kAT wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:17:18 -0700, Craig wrote: > >> What I'm looking for is something similar to box.net or spideroak but as >> a "private cloud," that is on our own servers... E.g. not Canonical's. > > Ubuntu appears to offer that? > > http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/private OK... Senior moment. Wheel & you are right in that I can use Canonical's product for a "private cloud." Canonical's UEC isn't in the running because it's a heck of a lot more than we need. Not to mention more than I want to admin <cough>. Tahoe-LAFs distributed storage sits on top of w/e OS is already deployed and, so far, looks like it'll be more manageable. thx, -- -Craig
From: Craig on 10 Apr 2010 20:10
On 04/10/2010 04:26 PM, Wheel wrote: > Craig wrote: >> On 04/10/2010 03:16 PM, Wheel wrote: >>> I don't understand the nature of your final goal, knowing next to >>> nothing myself, but you've posted on the subject before without a >>> mention of Ubuntu. I'm just throwing it in; in the unlikely event >>> you've missed it. >>> >>> >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud >> >> Thanks Wheel. I'm afraid my post was a bit more muddled than usual. >> What I'm looking for is something similar to box.net or spideroak but >> as a "private cloud," that is on our own servers... E.g. not Canonical's. > > Thank you for the clarification. I'll revise my "next to nothing", to > "nothing". :) Meh. You were on the right track. See my response to za kat elsewhere. Thanks again! -- -Craig |