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187 posts from 2013
OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack
By Mark Baker, 15 November 2013
To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy....
Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...
November Brown Bag lunch
By Canonical, 15 November 2013
Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...
Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...
App Design Clinic #4
By Canonical, 11 November 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...
Trademarks, community and criticism
By Canonical, 8 November 2013
Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....
Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...
A week in San Francisco
By Canonical, 7 November 2013
I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...
Planning a cathedral at the bazaar
By Peter Mahnke, 6 November 2013
So I am stretching the metaphor a bit, but I think it accurately explains my experience of the recent cloud sprint in San Francisco. The week starts with some...
Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability
By Canonical, 5 November 2013
Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live...
Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options
By Canonical, 5 November 2013
Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate...
Hit the ground running with Ubuntu OpenStack training
By Canonical, 30 October 2013
Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, under the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure brand. Ubuntu is also the reference...