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11 posts from August 2014
Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF
By Canonical, 29 August 2014
We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in...
Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages
By Robin Winslow, 28 August 2014
On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the...
Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air
By Canonical, 21 August 2014
London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an...
Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey
By Canonical, 20 August 2014
“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool...
Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers
By Canonical, 18 August 2014
As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability,...
Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack
By Canonical, 18 August 2014
Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical...
Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack
By John Dolen, 14 August 2014
Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as...
Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8
By John Dolen, 13 August 2014
IBM recently posted “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian...
CPLANE NETWORKS joins OIL
By Canonical, 12 August 2014
Our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) programme is currently testing and validating over 3,000 hardware and software configurations per month. We’re adding...
Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!
By Canonical, 8 August 2014
Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle....
The hybrid cloud would prefer you leave your interop inhibitions at the door
By Mark Baker, 6 August 2014
How will cloud adoption progress? If the results of this year’s Future of Cloud Computing Report from North Bridge are any indication, the answer is rapidly,...