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18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

Cloud and server Videos

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed. ...

Inayaili de León Persson
18 November 2013

The new Ubuntu Resources

Ubuntu Featured

Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first methodology and we’re very excited to share this with everyone! As you’ll be able to see, we’re not quite done with it yet, but we wanted to share what we’ve created ...

Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

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. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The really interesting ...

Canonical
15 November 2013

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

Cloud and server Article

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju.  These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware using existing and ...

Canonical
15 November 2013

November Brown Bag lunch

Ubuntu Notes

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 share with you the Brown Bag lunch we had this week. Vesa shared with us his interest in photography and showed us some of the ...

Canonical
11 November 2013

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

Ubuntu User Experience

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 topic by highlighting a number of key strategies that you may need to use when conducting a formative user testing, whose main aim is to identify usability problems and ...

Canonical
11 November 2013

App Design Clinic #4

Ubuntu Notes

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 icons (stylistically and in terms of file format and resolution) tips on how to use action icons The presentation deck link will be shared on the blog once it’s been checked by our icon ...

Canonical
8 November 2013

Trademarks, community and criticism

Ubuntu open source

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent. We want to provide some context around this issue. In Ubuntu we cherish an open and diverse discourse, and we welcome differing and challenging views and perspectives; it is the cor ...

Canonical
7 November 2013

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

Cloud and server Article

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 service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical manner without all ...

Canonical
7 November 2013

A week in San Francisco

Cloud and server Notes

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, so as well as working hard, it was nice to have the opportunity to see the city again. Whilst there we worked on the UX and ...

Peter Mahnke
6 November 2013

Planning a cathedral at the bazaar

Cloud and server Notes

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 presentations and talks about where we are now and where we want to be from a company, marketplace and product perspective.  This lasts about two hours, ...

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