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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Mark Baker
1 July 2013

The Juju Charm Championship begins

Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the Juju Charm Championship, in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative with Juju charms. ...


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
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 ...


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 ...


Canonical
26 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 in context

Cloud and server Article

The past couple of years have seen a fundamental shift in the way enterprise IT is done. This trend started with the consumerisation of corporate devices, and the gradual introduction of BYOD policies. This has paved the way to the “user voice” being heard more than ever. We’re seeing this trend continuing into the backend ...


Canonical
25 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 delivers OpenStack with high availability, scalable storage and big data deployment capabilities

Ubuntu News

Ubuntu 13.04 offers a complete solution for building highly available, flexible and secure OpenStack production clouds with scale out storage, networking and compute capabilities. ...


Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for ...


nickbarcet
12 December 2012

To prepare for the hybrid future, try OpenStack now

Cloud and server Article

Nigel Beighton, International VP of Technology, Rackspace Cloud computing is changing everything we know. Immense mathematical problems like the sequencing of the human genome and the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply wouldn’t have been solved without access to massive computing power, precisely when it was needed. Closer to home, the m ...


Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

Ubuntu Server

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in October, Ubuntu now has a GUI for Juju, the service orchestration tool for server and cloud. In this post we wanted to expand a bit more on how Juju makes it ...


Canonical
29 November 2012

What’s next for OpenStack?

Cloud and server Videos

OpenStack is an open source phenomenon. What started as a disruptive force for early adopting developers has morphed into the platform of choice for some of the world’s biggest clouds. ...