Topic: Cloud

Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011

Cloud, Desktop

Last week saw the third annual Ubuntu Hardware Summit (UHS) taking place in Taipei. With over two hundred attendees present, the show is fast becoming one of the must-attend events within the software, ODM and OEM environments across Taiwan. With standing room only at the back of the room during the Keynote speech, Canonical set [...]

December 12, 2011

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Learn more about Juju – Join Mark Shuttleworth Thursday 8th December at 3pm GMT

Cloud, open source, Server

Juju is Devops Distilled Cloud deployment is different. It involves tighter devops handovers, the ability to scale services both up and down, and hybrid cloud computing: moving services between your private cloud and multiple public cloud providers. Accelerated provisioning through IAAS has put the spotlight on friction in the deployment, configuration and management of services. This [...]

December 2, 2011

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Building a Precise Pangolin: A summary of UDS success

Cloud, Desktop, Server

The Ubuntu Developer Summit – UDS – is a major event in the Canonical calendar. Taking place every six months, it is the Ubuntu event which defines the focus and plans for our up-coming version of Ubuntu. In the first week of November, over 800 people, from Canonical engineers and employees, Ubuntu community members, partners, [...]

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November 21, 2011

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Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011 December 8th, Taipei

Cloud, Desktop, Server

This year’s Ubuntu Hardware Summit (UHS) will take place on December 8th at the Grand Victoria Hotel in Taipei. You can register your place at www.ubuntu.com.uhs Building on the success of 2010 (with over 200 attendees), the 2011 Ubuntu Hardware Summit promises to deliver more. With keynote speeches from various members of the Canonical team [...]

November 15, 2011

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Ubuntu & HP’s project Moonshot

Cloud, Server

  Today HP announced Project Moonshot  - a programme to accelerate the use of low power processors in the data centre. The three elements of the announcement are the launch of Redstone – a development platform that harnesses low-power processors (both ARM & x86),  the opening of the HP Discovery lab in Houston and the [...]

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November 2, 2011

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Next webinar with Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu Cloud

Cloud

November 16th – 2pm UK time After years of development and fine tuning, the cloud vision of true computing elasticity is finally a reality. The question now is how organisations can best take advantage of the latest cloud technologies to optimise their IT, scale infrastructure and services in near-real time, and make the most of [...]

October 13, 2011

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Ubuntu Powers HP Public Cloud

Cloud

Today our CEO Jane Silber announced at the OpenStack Conference in Boston that HP has chosen Ubuntu as one of the initial lead host and guest operating system powering their Public Cloud. HP and Canonical are working closely together during the current private beta to make certain that we provide the most secure, scalable, business-class [...]

October 6, 2011

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Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) in Ubuntu 11.10

Cloud, Server

Great news that Ubuntu 11.10 will include Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, deploy and run Cloud applications. Other PaaS offerings have typically locked you into using specific frameworks and services defined by the PaaS vendor as well as proprietary host platforms. This has made migrating [...]

August 17, 2011

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Ubuntu Server for ARM processors

Cloud, Server

Fitting more computing capacity into a limited power envelope is one of the key challenges facing data centre designers today. It impacts companies whether they are building a £500 million data centre or simply working how much compute that can fit into a couple of racks at a shared facility. One of the emerging approaches [...]

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August 16, 2011

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Britain’s Got Talent and The Cabinet Office – Ubuntu bedfellows in the public cloud.

Cloud, Server

Last week saw the culmination of one of the UK’s most popular TV shows – Britain’s Got Talent. The way in which this show over five series has captured the attention of the British public is quite incredible, with the majority of popular media outlets dedicating significant space to the contestants, the judges, rumours about [...]

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June 6, 2011

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