Archive for September, 2009

First Ubuntu Hardware Summit in Taiwan a great success

Friday, September 18th, 2009

The inaugural Ubuntu Hardware Summit in Taipei came to an end on Tuesday evening with over 170 delegates in attendance. This was the first time a major Linux OSV has run this type of event in Taiwan, generating real excitement in the press beforehand (some sample coverage for those who read Chinese).

The show was aimed at engineers and technical teams within ODMs in Taiwan. This is part of our programme to improve Linux skills and familiarity in Taiwan to make it easier for manufacturers to ship Linux. Content included detailing the Ubuntu desktop roadmap, kernel device driver development, networking in Ubuntu and working with the Linux kernel community.

Throughout the one-day summit, delegates were updated on all the latest news from Canonical and given first-hand experience working with Ubuntu. Guest speakers were flown in from Europe and the USA, presenting keynote speeches and more in-depth break-out sessions.

The Ubuntu Hardware Summit will be the first of a series. We were delighted to have members of so many leading ODMs and OEMs in attendance as well as members of the local Debian community. Once the details are fixed, we will post notice of the next event on this blog.


John Bernard – OEM Marketing Manager, Canonical

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An On-line Panel Discussion – The Convergence of Physical, Virtual and Cloud

Friday, September 18th, 2009

The cloud is getting a lot of attention. Understandably and rightly so – it is one of the hottest topics around. An on-line panel discussion on how businesses can incorporate cloud computing into their existing datacenter operations will take place in a webinar hosted by rPath on 24 September 2009. You’ll hear from the some of the most experienced experts in the field:

Michael Crandell, Chief Executive Officer of RightScale

Erik Troan, founder and Chief Technology Officer of rPath

Dr. Rich Wolski, Chief Technology Officer of Eucalyptus Systems

Matt Zimmerman, Chief Technology Officer of Canonical

David Berlind , Chief Content Officer of TechWeb

We’re looking forward to participating on this webinar, so please join us on 24 September 2009 at 11:00 a.m. PST.

For more information and registration please go to the the rPath registration page.

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Premium Service Engineer Option is here

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Large, complex or mission critical IT environments often have multi-layered support problems. A clear message from our corporate customers has been that when it comes to support it’s vital to have access to experts who are familiar with their environment: there’s no time to bring a new support engineer up to speed, customers need someone who has intimate knowledge of their technology and situation.

We’ve created the Premium Service Engineer (PSE) option to address this need. Each PSE is an expert technical engineer who provides a personalised level of service to their named accounts. Each PSE has deep knowledge of the Ubuntu platform aligned with experience managing Ubuntu in complex, heterogeneous IT environments.

Prevention is always better than cure, so the role of the PSE is to become a virtual member of the customer’s IT team. This approach allows the customer to take advantage of the PSE service for expert advice on any new projects involving Ubuntu technologies. Meaning that the customer has someone available to them who can help with existing systems, deployments and migrations.

If issues do arise, the PSE provides immediate support, based on a thorough understanding of their customer’s business and IT environment. Should the issue need to be escalated, the PSE will work directly with the Ubuntu foundation team to provide a speedy resolution.

We feel strongly that with the PSE service, we are addressing the support needs of our largest and most demanding Ubuntu deployments. If you’d like to know more have a look at the PSE (http://www.ubuntu.com/support/services/pse) service area.

Fern Ho, Product Manager, Canonical Corporate Services.

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Ubuntu certified on the latest HP ProLiant G6 Servers

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Canonical’s certification of Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition for a range of HP ProLiant servers has now been officially recognised by HP through reference on their website – yup, Ubuntu now has its own page – www.hp.com/go/ubuntu.

More good news for users of Ubuntu Server on HP ProLiant hardware -  the ‘HP ProLiant Support Pack for Ubuntu’ is now available for 9.04, with lots of management agents and drivers to make life easier for you.

These are strong steps forward in the recognition of Ubuntu as a server OS for enterprise deployment by many users. We have worked with HP over many months to push this forward enable Ubuntu on HP ProLiant servers and have been very pleased by their commitment to provide a very wide range of operating system choices user preferences.

We expect there is more to come and we remain committed as ever to enabling Ubuntu to run really well on the hardware that our users prefer

Gerry Carr, Head of Platform Marketing

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