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John Zannos
30 September 2014

Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre

Cloud and server News

Hyperscale, scale out and cloud computing are the hot topics in the server space today. Driven by increasing Internet traffic, massive amounts of data and widespread adoption of Linux-based open source workloads, companies ranging from Paypal and Bloomberg to Facebook are taking a fresh look at their approach to data centre infrastructure ...


Canonical
26 September 2014

Juju Machine View: more control at your fingertips

Cloud and server Article

The Juju UI Engineering team has been hard at work on a whole new way to visualise your Juju deployments. Juju provides a unique perspective on your workloads as it focuses on the services that perform the work and less on the hardware details as that’s malleable and transient from deployment to deployment and cloud ...


John Zannos
23 September 2014

Oracle and Canonical collaborate on support for Oracle Linux on Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

Canonical and Oracle are collaborating to offer customers support for both Ubuntu and Oracle Linux as fully supported guests on one another’s respective OpenStack offerings. As part of this collaboration, Canonical will support Ubuntu as a guest OS on Oracle Linux OpenStack, and Oracle will support Oracle Linux as a guest OS on Ubuntu Ope ...


Jane Silber
12 September 2014

Cycling in London

Ubuntu Uncategorised

As the CEO of Canonical, I am proud of the growth of the team in London.  From a team of 5 around a kitchen table in London 10 years ago, the business has grown to 650 employees globally of which over 100 are based in London. Like many businesses in London, one of the most ...


Canonical
11 September 2014

Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

Ubuntu Notes

Brighton is not just a lovely seaside town, mostly known for being overcrowded in Summer by Londoners in search for a bit of escapism, but also the home of a thriving community of designers, makers and entrepreneurs. Some of these people run dConstruct, a gathering where creative minds of all sorts converge every year to ...


Robin Winslow
9 September 2014

Supporting net neutrality and the Internet Slowdown

Ubuntu Services

On 10th September 2014, Canonical are joining in with Internet Slowdown day to support the fight for net neutrality. Along with Reddit, Tumblr, Boing Boing, Kickstarter and many more sites, we will be sporting banners on our main sites, www.ubuntu.com and www.canonical.com. If there were Internet slow lanes, you’d still be waiting. Protec ...


Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Cloud and server Article

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers, PaaS platforms, Big ...


Canonical
2 September 2014

Meeting evolving IT needs at the University of Nantes, France

Desktop Case study

Challenge Universities have diverse computing needs. There are full-time students, part-time students, teaching staff, technical staff and administrators to consider – all with differing levels of experience and in some cases, long-held technology preferences. Identifying a desktop platform that everyone can accept is no easy feat. Agains ...


Luca Paulina
2 September 2014

Come and meet us at dConstruct

Ubuntu Featured

Ubuntu is sponsoring the dConstruct “Living with the network” event on the 5th of September at the Brighton Dome. Stop by for a chat with the team, grab some goodies and enter our competition for a chance to win an Ubuntu Phone. ...


Canonical
2 September 2014

Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit ...


Canonical
1 September 2014

BootStack – taking away the pain of cloud management

Cloud and server Article

BootStack (short for: build, operate, and optionally transfer) is the new offering from Canonical to round up its cloud portfolio. Utilising their experience in working with some of the world’s leading telcos and enterprises to build OpenStack clouds, Canonical experts will design and build your OpenStack cloud in predictable time and on ...