Cloud and Server

Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu OpenStack Jumpstart

Article Cloud and server

On-site Canonical engineers will help you deploy a reference cloud for your department or company, based on the same technologies that power the Rackspace and HP public clouds: Ubuntu and OpenStack. Ubuntu is the OS of choice for new clouds, both as host and guest. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has unparalleled...

Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Article Cloud and server

Joining Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud Programme is the only way to ensure that your customers get the best Ubuntu experience in your public cloud. The programme offers a comprehensive set of tools and services to give you peace of mind and allow for a superior customer service. Read this factsheet to understand...

Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu OpenStack factsheet

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack offers an industry-leading, powerful toolset to enable you to build the most flexible and reliable cloud on OpenStack. What exactly makes up the Ubuntu OpenStack offer? How does Canonical engage with cloud providers, and what can you expect from an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud? This factsheet tells you...

Canonical
29 August 2013

Canonical
27 August 2013

Juju Charm Championship expands with more categories, more prizes

News Cloud and server

The Charm Championship is underway, but there’s still plenty of time to get involved. Today we’re announcing the addition of three new entry categories, each with a $10,000 prize on offer for the most innovative bundle of charms. The full list of categories is now as follows: NEW! Continuous deployment – a bundle of charms

Canonical
27 August 2013

Canonical
16 August 2013

Usability testing: how do we design effective tasks

User Experience Cloud and server

Previously, Charline Poirier provided an excellent post about how to recruit representative participants for usability testing. To continue the story, we are going to talk about the next stage: developing effective task sets, which is a crucial part of a test protocol. We conduct usability testing iteratively and...

Canonical
16 August 2013

Mark Baker
2 August 2013

When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key challenges in a world where numbers can grow very large very fast. Whether it’s huge amounts of data being collected for analysis, websites that

Mark Baker
2 August 2013

Canonical
1 August 2013

A successful (and busy!) week at OSCON

Article Cloud and server

Last week, we attended OSCON in Portland, Oregon and had a jam-packed event! We presented seven sessions throughout the week, including Community Management Training, Service Orchestration In The Cloud With Juju, Ubuntu Phone and Tablet – Intro to Design and Development, Burnout and Bickering: a Community Manager’s...

Canonical
1 August 2013

Canonical
24 July 2013

Could your startup use some cloud magic?

Article Cloud and server

As a small startup, it’s frustrating to watch the big companies pushing code to production multiple times a day. In an ideal world we’d all be able to continuously deploy, but few startups have the time or skills required. That’s where we’d like to help. We’re looking to collaborate with startups in building a best-in-class

Canonical
24 July 2013

Canonical
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment/integration and cloud orchestration

News Cloud and server

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service...

Canonical
22 July 2013

Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Create trusted compute pools in the cloud

White paper Cloud and server

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Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Canonical
26 June 2013

Using Juju to deploy OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

See how to deploy OpenStack easily on Ubuntu using Juju and the new Juju Charm Browser.

Canonical
26 June 2013

Canonical
12 June 2013

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

News Cloud and server

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...

Canonical
12 June 2013

Canonical
7 June 2013

Ubuntu and OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

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

Canonical
7 June 2013

Canonical
5 June 2013

Credit card as organisational changer

Article Cloud and server

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
5 June 2013

Cloud and Server

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.