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Tom Callway

Tom Callway

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Director of Cloud Marketing

Tom Callway is Director of Cloud Marketing at Canonical with specific responsibility for field marketing. He has been working for high growth, B2B technology start-ups for over ten years. Before joining Canonical in 2014 Tom ran the marketing team at MariaDB, an open source database vendor. Tom lives in Twickenham, UK with his wife Rosie, two children and miniture Schnauzer.

Tom Callway
13 May 2015

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core Canonical today announces the availability of ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core on whitebox and OCP switches. Ubuntu Core is a high security platform with transactional updates, offering a choice o ...

Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

Cloud and server Article

Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances to do your bidding 11:15am You click ‘run’ on the OpenStack dashboard, or launch a new instance via the api. Some provisioning magic happens and soon you’ve got a server created espec ...

Tom Callway
9 March 2015

Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015

Cloud and server Article

With MWC2015 barely over, we’re now looking forward to the next big European cloud event – WHD.global 2015 – held at Europa Park in Rust, Germany. WHD.global 2015, now in its 11th year, promises to be as popular and diverse as ever. The event organisers expect over 6,000 vendors, service providers and software developers to ...

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

Introducing lxcfs

Cloud and server Article

Last year around this time, we announced the availability of cgmanager, a daemon allowing users and programs to easily administer and delegate cgroups over a dbus interface. It was key to supporting nested containers and unprivileged users. While its dbus interface turned out to have tremendous benefits (I wasn’t sold at first), there are ...

Tom Callway
19 February 2015

Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

Cloud and server Article

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu. This is ...

Tom Callway
18 February 2015

OpenStack needs you! Get voting for our ODS Vancouver talks!

Cloud and server Article

We’ve submitted over 30 talks to the upcoming ODS in Vancouver and really need your help to make ensure they are included in the schedule. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk. The OpenStack Summit talk selection process is broken Speaker: Mark Baker Track: Community Building OpenStack is ...

Tom Callway
10 February 2015

Create DevOps Magic on Azure with Canonical’s Juju

Cloud and server Article

The following is a guest post by Samuel Cozannet, a Strategic Program Manager for Canonical, an Azure partner and the company behind Ubuntu. At Canonical, we’re really happy to see Microsoft increasingly engage with the open source community. This is particularly true with its cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, where users can now easily sp ...