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Canonical
12 June 2013

Canonical and Autonomic Resources partner to bring Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to the US federal government

Cloud and server News

Canonical and Autonomic Resources today announced the availability of an integrated product based on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Dell Blade server hardware under the ARC-P cloud product family. ARC-P-UEC is now available for purchase as single SKU on Autonomic’s GSA Schedule 70 contract. UEC has proved very popular with private comp ...


Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth demonstrated that life is going to get much less ‘interesting’ for people running OpenStack and that ...


Canonical
7 June 2013

Ubuntu and OpenStack

Cloud and server Videos

Ubuntu and OpenStack. Find out what makes the partnership so important. ...


Canonical
5 June 2013

Credit card as organisational changer

Cloud and server Article

Why scale out matters Beware the credit card It’s just a little piece of plastic. Yet any part of your organisation can use it to buy infrastructure on demand, in a public cloud, right now. And that’s dangerous. Say marketing want to run a campaign, and they have a rough idea of the IT resources ...


Canonical
24 May 2013

Motion Graphics Presentation for Ubuntu Mobile

Ubuntu User Experience

This is a presentation of our ‘Paper’ Motion theme for Ubuntu Mobile. The theme is informed by the ‘paper’ graphic style of the mobile OS and we have sought to accentuate it wherever possible. Rather than using more overt effects like page curling and folding, we have hinted at the theme by using multiple layers, ...


Canonical
21 May 2013

Cyberport offers innovative cloud-based services for Hong Kong’s technology entrepreneurs

Cloud and server Case study

OpenStack and Ubuntu provide secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure Summary To give local start-ups and entrepreneurs access to infrastructure and services on demand, Hong Kong’s digital community Cyberport built a new, open-source cloud computing environment on OpenStack and Ubuntu. Following 18 months of development effort, the Cyb ...


Canonical
20 May 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 brings dramatic graphical performance enhancements

Desktop News

Ubuntu 13.04 includes the Developer Preview SDK for developers to build native applications for Ubuntu devices. ...


Canonical
16 May 2013

Shorts, the RSS reader app

Ubuntu Notes

As you can see in the image above, I have spent some time looking at different types and contexts of reading, trying to understand what the reading experience might be for Ubuntu. The contexts of reading varies from libraries to magazine stands to the sofa in your lounge, and these each have an impact on ...


Matthew Paul Thomas
16 May 2013

System Settings for Ubuntu Phone

Ubuntu Notes

The design process for System Settings on the phone involved a competitor evaluation, identifying user journeys, generating many possibilities for the overview screen, and designing many individual settings screens. ...


Alejandra Obregon
13 May 2013

Ubuntu.com update

Ubuntu Design

I’d like to give an update on upcoming plans for Ubuntu.com and to respond to recent concerns about the positioning of the community within the website. Earlier in the year we worked on an evolution of Ubuntu.com to reflect the expanded scope of the project in the main site structure. Our re-structuring conversations went beyond ...


Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Ubuntu Article

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined ...