Convirture and Canonical to Team Up to Provide Virtual Machine and Private Cloud Management

http://www.convirture.com/pressrelease5.php

Convirture and Canonical to Team Up to Provide Virtual Machine and Private Cloud 
Management
 
ConVirt 2.0 Open Source Now Available in Ubuntu Partner Repository
 
SAN FRANCISCO ? November 16, 2010? Convirture, maker of the ConVirt 
enterprise-grade software for managing Xen and KVM-based virtual and private 
cloud environments, is partnering with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu 
open source operating system, to help organizations effectively manage virtual 
machines built using Ubuntu. ConVirt 2.0 Open is now available in the Ubuntu 
Partner Repository. It provides a sophisticated set of tools which can also be 
used to manage virtual machines in a private cloud infrastructure. 

 
"Canonical's commitment to helping enterprises implement and build up their 
virtual infrastructure will be greatly enhanced by the ability to offer ConVirt 
2.0 as a management layer," said Matt Asay, COO of Canonical. "We think users 
will see an immediate benefit whether they are using the Xen, KVM or both 
hypervisors on Ubuntu."
 
ConVirt launched in 2006 and is available in an Open Source and Enterprise 
version. As part of this agreement, ConVirt 2.0 Open Source is available for 
easy download via the Ubuntu partner repository.
 
"Since we first offered ConVirt 1.0, we have always believed that users of Xen 
and KVM deserve to have advanced management capabilities on par with some of the 
closed, proprietary offerings on the market," said Arsalan Farooq, CEO of 
Convirture. "Given Canonical's focus on the cloud, and our ability to manage it, 
we think this is a great start to a partnership that will delight customers and 
deliver real value."
 
ConVirt 2.0 Open Source delivers ease of use, accessibility and features for 
automating every aspect of virtual machine lifecycle management, including 
monitoring, configuration management, templates-based provisioning, basic 
automation, live migration and other enterprise-ready features.  It is licensed 
under GPL and is free to download and use. More information is available at 
http://www.convirture.com/products_opensource.php. 

 
About Convirture
Convirture was founded in 2006 to help organizations effectively manage open 
source virtualization platforms. More information is available at 
www.convirture.com.
 
About Canonical 
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu 
partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, 
Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu ? an ever-popular 
and fast-growing open source operating system. It aims to ensure that Ubuntu is 
available to every organization and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and 
netbooks. 


Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, 
provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and 
offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains 
collaborative, open source development tools to ensure that organizations and 
individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source 
community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com.