Cloud management
Choosing the right management tool will ensure that you get the best out of your new cloud environment. Here are some of the of the choices that are available to you.
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Canonical's Landscape
Landscape is an easy-to-use systems management and monitoring service which enables you to deploy, manage and monitor Ubuntu instances in the cloud. Landscape gives you centralised control over your entire computing environment. It is the only management solution that manages both your cloud and physical systems on one console.
Landscape is designed to simplify the management of both private clouds and public clouds.
- Manage multiple server machines through a single web-based interface
- Create, start, stop and decommission cloud instances from a simple GUI console
- Store your Amazon EC2 credentials, helping you to access instances quickly
- Manage package and status information on your cloud and physical machines in a single console
- Updates and provisioning of packages
- System monitoring
- User control
- Process management
- Inventory control
- Support enhancement tools
Next steps
To check that Landscape is the right management tool for your cloud, apply for a 60-day Landscape free trial.
You can start using Landscape right now. If you are managing up to 10 machines, you can purchase Landscape from the Canonical store, for $150 per managed machine per year.
If you need to manage more than 10 machines and are considering Landscape, or if you wish to discuss other cloud requirements, please get in touch: contact Canonical.
Other Management Tools
Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud is fully Open Source and can also be managed by these alternative systems:
RightScale
The RightScale Cloud Management Platform lets any organization tap the enormous power of cloud computing for scalable, cost-effective IT infrastructure on demand, with complete control and portability. By choosing RightScale, Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud users will be able to maximize the cost efficiency and flexibility of their cloud applications by either testing in their own IT environment and deploying on the public cloud, developing on a public cloud and deploying in their own data center, or deploying some applications in a private cloud and some in a public cloud. Through the RightScale Platform, users will be able to view and manage all their clouds – public, private, and hybrid – with one common interface.
Cohesive Flexible Techonolgies
Cohesive Flexible Technologies provides onboarding solutions for virtual and cloud computing infrastructures like those powered by the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). CohesiveFT's Elastic Server® platform is a web-based factory for dynamic custom multi-sourced server assembly and fast deployment to virtual formats, public clouds, and/or private UECs. The Elastic Server also includes a Cloud Manager that gives users the ability to manage their cloud servers. Additionally the VPN-Cubed® packaged service gives customers control of networking in the clouds, across clouds, and between their private data center and the clouds. For more information, visit www.cohesiveft.com.
