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Mark Baker
8 January 2014

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

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Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of our biggest goals: cloud interoperability and OS convergence. First and foremost, creating the best freely available software continued to be a primary goal over

Mark Baker
8 January 2014

Canonical
20 December 2013

Making the world more secure, instantly

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Nobody likes to remember lots of different passwords. This is why most enterprises have implemented single sign-on (SSO) solutions. You just sign in one time and can use all the company’s web resources and applications. The problem comes when employees use easy passwords or share their passwords, either knowingly or...

Canonical
20 December 2013

Canonical
17 December 2013

Juju: a robust cloud strategy built on choice

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu is the reference platform for scale out computing. Some manifestations of scale out computing include: edge of network workloads, dev/test environments, big data (Hadoop), and Cloud (OpenStack). Not only do all these next-generation workloads run on top of Ubuntu but what’s truly amazing is you can deploy and...

Canonical
17 December 2013

Canonical
5 December 2013

The next decade of innovation | Ubuntu at Le Web 2013, Paris

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Over the last decade, we’ve seen the arrival of the first smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and other connected devices; the Web completely transformed with the introduction of the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia; cloud services, music and video streaming were all introduced; millions of apps were developed; and the...

Canonical
5 December 2013

Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

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The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.

Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Canonical
19 November 2013

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

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Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release. Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance updates means sysadmins and developers can plan updates and migrations in advance. So it comes at no surprise, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the leading reference operating...

Canonical
19 November 2013

Canonical
18 November 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

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This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. Canonical’s Kent Baxley and Dell’s Jose De La Rosa, are the two experienced engineers who have been interviewed.

Canonical
18 November 2013

Canonical
15 November 2013

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

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The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of Metal-as-a-Service (MAAS) and Juju. These exciting open-source projects, offer groundbreaking functionality and just got better in Ubuntu 13.10! MAAS provisions hardware...

Canonical
15 November 2013

Canonical
7 November 2013

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

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The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical...

Canonical
7 November 2013

A week in San Francisco

Notes Cloud and server

I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited, so as well as working hard, it was nice to have the opportunity to see the city again. Whilst there we worked on the UX and

Canonical
7 November 2013

Peter Mahnke
6 November 2013

Planning a cathedral at the bazaar

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So I am stretching the metaphor a bit, but I think it accurately explains my experience of the recent cloud sprint in San Francisco. The week starts with some presentations and talks about where we are now and where we want to be from a company, marketplace and product perspective. This lasts about two hours,

Peter Mahnke
6 November 2013

Canonical
5 November 2013

Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability

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Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live audience at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong.

Canonical
5 November 2013

Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options

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Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. We’re launching the...

Canonical
5 November 2013

Canonical
30 October 2013

Hit the ground running with Ubuntu OpenStack training

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Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, under the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure brand. Ubuntu is also the reference operating system for the project. Since 2011, we have included the latest version of OpenStack in every Ubuntu release, and made every OpenStack release available...

Canonical
30 October 2013

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All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.