Alexander Gallagher

3 posts

Director of Business Development

At Canonical, Alex is responsible for the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program in the Americas, the focus of this is enabling the best possible Ubuntu experience - from simple virtual machines, containers, through to full service modelling. Having begun his software career in the Oil and Gas sector in Aberdeen, Scotland, Alex joined Canonical from running the UK division of a Danish software company in the Finance sector from the City of London. Outside of Canonical Alex has a passion for coaching Business Development best practice.

Alexander Gallagher
6 March 2017

Canonical at Google Next 2017

Article Cloud and server

The dramatic emergence of open source software, together with the SaaS deployment model and cloud computing, has greatly reduced software costs for enterprises, but that has also created new challenges. As many organizations have come to understand, Big Software—dynamic scale-out software architectures such as big data,...

Alexander Gallagher
6 March 2017

Alexander Gallagher
1 July 2016

Certified Ubuntu Images Available in SoftLayer

Article Ubuntu

We are excited to announce today that SoftLayer, an IBM Company and a world-leading IaaS provider, is now an Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud partner for Ubuntu guest images. For users, this means you can now harness the value of the best Ubuntu user experience, optimized for SoftLayer bare metal and virtual servers:...

Alexander Gallagher
1 July 2016

Alexander Gallagher
10 September 2015

Rackspace joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

News Cloud and server

Continuing to validate the importance of certified images in the cloud Ubuntu, the world’s most popular cloud operating system, has gained additional traction with Rackspace, a managed cloud leader. Rackspace and Canonical are excited to announce that Rackspace is joining the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program....

Alexander Gallagher
10 September 2015