Canonical and ARM to offer Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM servers

Canonical announced Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph are now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit ARM v8-A architecture. The growing demand in enterprise and Telco markets for ARMv8-A based enterprise solutions are addressed by the availability through this growing collaboration making Ubuntu Openstack and Ceph Storage solutions with Ubuntu Advantage support. Ubuntu’s partners original design manufacturers (ODMs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) would be accompanying ARM and Canonical to assure production grade server systems, storage platforms, and networking solutions are available in the market with Ubuntu Advantage support. “With the growth in scale-out computing and storage, we wanted to ensure we had the best OpenStack and Ceph storage solutions and enterprise grade support available,” said Lakshmi Mandyam, senior marketing director of server programs, ARM. “The commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph is another milestone that demonstrates open source software on ARM is ready for deployment now. The ARM and Canonical ecosystems can now simply write once and deploy anywhere on ARM-based servers.” “We have seen our Telecom and Enterprise customers start to radically depart from traditional server design to innovative platform architectures for scale-out compute and storage. In partnering with ARM we brin...