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Mark Baker
22 July 2014

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

Cloud and server Article

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in production clouds. Enterprises are skeptical of OpenStack’s ability to deliver a solid platform that is able to meet the availability, security and manageability demands of the business. Ther ...


Canonical
16 July 2014

Canonical welcomes Brightbox to its Certified Public Cloud Programme as first European partner

Cloud and server News

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience – this is the aim of our Certified Public Cloud programme. So we are very excited today to welcome Brightbox as the programme’s newest partner and our very first European cloud partner. Brightbox is a great match for us, with their strong reputation for ...


Jane Silber
14 July 2014

“Sometimes the best man for the job isn’t.”

Ubuntu open source

The social and business value of having a diverse workforce is well documented.  Equally well documented is the relative lack of women in technology, and in open source. At Canonical we are working hard to build a globally diverse workforce. We are well positioned to do so, particularly building on our open source roots, and ...


Canonical
7 July 2014

Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions

Desktop Case study

Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there were 22 organisational ...


Tom Macfarlane
4 July 2014

Mobile Asia Expo 2014

Ubuntu Featured

Following the success of our new stand design at MWC earlier this year, we applied the same design principles to the Ubuntu stand at last month’s Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai. With increased floor space, compared to last year, and a new stand location that was approachable from three key directions, we were faced with a few new design cha ...


Canonical
4 July 2014

Ubuntu highlighted in IBM Systems Magazine

Cloud and server Article

IBM Systems Magazine caught up with us recently, for a discussion regarding Linux on Power – today, and heading into the future. As you may have seen from recent blogs and announcements, IBM and Canonical announced Ubuntu support for IBM’s POWER8 platform in April. This became available immediately upon POWER8 availability in June, making ...


John Zannos
1 July 2014

HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture

Cloud and server Article

Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This white paper provides the information HP clients need to start planning cloud deployments using OpenStack on Ubuntu with HP servers. For clients who are b ...


Latest from the web team — June 2014

Ubuntu Notes

We’re now almost half way through the year and only a few days until summer officially starts here in the UK! In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Responsive ubuntu.com: we’ve finished publishing the series on making ubuntu.com responsive on the design blog Ubuntu.com: we’ve released a hub for our legal documents and information, ...


Making ubuntu.com responsive: final thoughts

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. There are several resources out there on how to create responsive websites, but they tend to go through the process in an ideal scenario, where the project starts with a blank slate, from scratch. That’s why we thought it would be nice to share the ...


Maarten Ectors
18 June 2014

Forgerock shows the future of instant identity integration with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Forgerock, the leading unified open source identity solution provider, showed on the Identity Relationship Management Summit how Juju is changing the future of identity integration. In minutes their identity solution gets integrated with other charms. Traditionally companies would need months to integrate single sign-on solutions. Forgero ...


Making ubuntu.com responsive: testing on multiple devices (15)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. When working on a responsive project you’ll have to test on multiple operating systems, browsers and devices, whether you’re using emulators or the real deal. Testing on the actual devices is preferable — it’s hard to emulate the feel of a device in your hand ...