Blog posts written by nickbarcet

nickbarcet
12 December 2012

To prepare for the hybrid future, try OpenStack now

Cloud and server Article

Nigel Beighton, International VP of Technology, Rackspace Cloud computing is changing everything we know. Immense mathematical problems like the sequencing of the human genome and the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply wouldn’t have been solved without access to massive computing power, precisely when it was needed. Closer to home, the m ...

nickbarcet
26 September 2012

Cloud computing primer

Cloud and server Article

Our ebook is about making the cloud as straight forward as possible. If you want to reap the benefits of the open cloud but don’t know exactly where to start then you’re in the right place. This could be your first step towards a new direction for your business. ...

nickbarcet
13 April 2012

HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Partners

Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month. This is a major milestone for HPCloud which coincides with two major events: the release of OpenStack Essex last week and the upcoming release of Ubuntu ...

nickbarcet
14 March 2012

Official Ubuntu Cloud Guest from Canonical Now Available on Amazon EC2

Ubuntu Article

We’re pleased to announce that official Ubuntu Cloud Guest Images are now listed on the Amazon EC2 quick start. Users can now find and launch official Ubuntu Cloud Guest Images right from the Amazon EC2 management console. This significantly simplifies access to Ubuntu on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and provides users with more options for ...

nickbarcet
3 February 2011

Dell releases OpenManage 6.4 for Ubuntu

Ubuntu Server

In the spring of 2010, members of the Ubuntu development team worked with Dell to build and test OpenManage 6.3 for Ubuntu. Several of our engineers took several weeks working with Dell Linux engineers to build out a process for ensuring: – all of the dependencies were met, – helped get the Dell Linux team up ...

nickbarcet
3 February 2011

Canonical joins the OpenStack community

Ubuntu Server

OpenStack today have made a number of announcements about the Bexar release of their cloud stack and we were delighted to be able to confirm its inclusion in the repositories for Ubuntu 11.04 as well as officially joining the community. We have been engaged with the OpenStack community informally for some time. Some Canonical alumni ...