Cloud and Server

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Canonical
2 April 2012

Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends

Case study Cloud and server

Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London technology company, provides unique insight for music industry players and artists. It does this by analysing vast quantities of online data from music download...

Canonical
2 April 2012


Canonical
2 April 2012

Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand

Case study Cloud and server

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading e-commerce and auction site. Founded in 1999 with a handful of employees, it is now the eighth-largest online retailer, handling up to two million site requests per...

Canonical
2 April 2012


Canonical
13 March 2012

Ubuntu and Hadoop: the perfect match

White paper Cloud and server

In many fields of IT, there are always stand-out technologies. This is definitely the case in the Big Data space, where Hadoop is leading the way. However, without the right technology to underpin it, distributed Hadoop storage and processing environments can become complex to deploy and manage, and expensive to...

Canonical
13 March 2012


Canonical
13 March 2012

Ubuntu: helping drive business insight from big data

White paper Cloud and server

Today, Big Data isn’t just for big companies, and it isn’t just happening on the web. In fact more and more organisations in multiple sectors are recognising its enormous value in terms of gaining new competitive insight. In this white paper, we take a brief look at how organisations in a range of sectors are

Canonical
13 March 2012


Canonical
31 January 2012

Krux creates revenues from audience data and helps protect privacy

Case study Cloud and server

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Krux helps website operators responsibly drive new revenues from consumer data while protecting that data from unauthorised skimming and theft. With massive storage and processing requirements, and a rapidly growing customer base,...

Canonical
31 January 2012


Canonical
24 January 2012

JT Global standardises mission-critical production system on Ubuntu

Case study Cloud and server

Virtualised Ubuntu environment delivers datacentre power and cooling savings of £2,800 per year Summary JT Global, formerly Jersey Telecom, is a leading communications provider in the Channel Islands. It delivers ADSL services to 38,000 subscribers via an extensive IT infrastructure that incorporates public DNS servers,...

Canonical
24 January 2012


Canonical
12 January 2012

Janrain powers the next generation of online indentity management with Ubuntu

Case study Cloud and server

Ubuntu Cloud Guest and Amazon’s public cloud power seamless sign-on and authentication for millions of web users. Summary US technology Janrain makes it simple for web users to access new sites using their existing online accounts, from Google and Facebook, to MySpace and Yahoo. Used on 350,000 sites, Janrain manages...

Canonical
12 January 2012


Canonical
6 January 2012

Launcher Reveal Prototype

Design Cloud and server

For the multi-monitor design project, we have been making use of prototypes to develop and test some of the finer interactions of the system. One such crucial element is the reveal of the Launcher, particularly as we are exploring having a Launcher on each display. The motivation for making the Launcher available from...

Canonical
6 January 2012


Canonical
28 July 2011

Canonical launches technical support for Ubuntu on most popular public clouds

News Cloud and server

Full support and systems management services from the Ubuntu experts ready to go for most popular OS on the open public cloud Canonical today announces the launch of Ubuntu Advantage Cloud Guest, a set of technical support services, management tools and legal cover for businesses running Ubuntu in public cloud...

Canonical
28 July 2011


Canonical
25 July 2011

Canonical announces the Ubuntu Advantage Partner Programme for resellers

News Cloud and server

Global network of Canonical partner organisations to bring local delivery of services to businesses deploying Ubuntu London 25th July 2011: Canonical today announces the launch of its new Ubuntu Advantage (UA) partner programme, designed to help resellers bring a new set of support services for Ubuntu server, desktop...

Canonical
25 July 2011


Canonical
28 April 2011

Latest Ubuntu offers businesses added cloud features and sleek new desktop interface

News Cloud and server

Canonical today announced availability on April 28 of the Ubuntu 11.04 suite of products for businesses. Spanning corporate and developer desktops, servers and the leading open-source cloud implementation, Ubuntu 11.04 offers businesses of all sizes an open-source alternative. “Ubuntu 11.04 offers exciting opportunities...

Canonical
28 April 2011


Canonical
16 February 2011

Thunderbird in the Usability Lab!

Research Cloud and server

 I have just completed sessions of usability testing of Thunderbird. This time, I had the pleasure of working with Andreas Nilsson, who came to London to observe the sessions. It was very useful to get his feedback and to work collaboratively with him on the analysis and implications of the findings. In addition to

Canonical
16 February 2011


Canonical
2 February 2011

Dell customers use Ubuntu to deploy cloud

News Cloud and server

Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) running on Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers in an integrated solution enabling Dell's U.S.-based customers to easily deploy Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The standard edition released today allows software developers and IT...

Canonical
2 February 2011


Canonical
1 December 2010

Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer

News Cloud and server

New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface for its systems management solution, Ubuntu Advantage: Landscape. Landscape has been available to Ubuntu users for four years and is now part of the Ubuntu...

Canonical
1 December 2010