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Using Univention Corporate Server 2.4 for virtual infrastructure management
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Univention Corporate Server (UCS) has become a popular solution on the small to mid-sized enterprise market and has established itself in particular as a strategic platform for other OSS products, such as Open-Xchange, Collax, Scalix, or Kolab. Although many appliances come with preconfigured OSS services, UCS [1] [2] offers added value compared with Collax and others because of its comprehensively implemented domain concept and graphical user interface. Version 2.4, which was released late in 2010, adds a manager for virtual machines based on Xen or KVM to the package, and patch 2.4-2 substantially improves its functionality.
About Univention
The product's manufacturer, Univention GmbH, and its founder and CEO, Peter Ganten, have long been some of the open source community's most innovative creative forces and evangelists for Linux and open source in government offices and small businesses. At CeBIT 2011, Univention shared exhibition floor space with its partners, such as the Debian Project and Open-Xchange, and thus demonstrated the strategic position that UCS has established for itself as an infrastructure product for many partner products.
Incidentally, Univention employs three official Debian maintainers internally, which clearly shows that Univention programmers are very much at the cutting edge of the Linux scene. Univention is also a member of LIVE (a Linux association) and Lisog, and it supports the establishment of the Lisog Open Source Software Stack [3]. The most interesting development at Univention right now is the administration module for virtual instances (UVMM) in the latest version of the Univention Server, 2.4-2.
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