Topic: Server

Canonical joins the OpenStack community

Canonical News, Cloud, open source, Server

OpenStack today have made a number of announcements about the Bexar release of their cloud stack and we were delighted to be able to confirm its inclusion in the repositories for Ubuntu 11.04 as well as officially joining the community. We have been engaged with the OpenStack community informally for some time. Some Canonical alumni [...]

February 3, 2011

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Ubuntu for the Enterprise: Five Steps to Ensure Successful Adoption webinar

Partners, Server

Please join Canonical and Centrify on Thursday, 2 December 2010 at 9 a.m. PST to learn how organizations are enabling the broader deployment of Ubuntu by integrating it into their existing Active Directory infrastructure and management processes. By using Centrify’s Canonical-certified solution, they can go beyond simply offering transparent sign-on to Ubuntu systems and can [...]

December 1, 2010

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Lower the cost of your data centre with IBM and Canonical webcast

Server

Please join IBM and Canonical on Tuesday, 16 November 2010 at 9:00am PDT / 12:00noon EDT / 15:00pm GMT to hear how the combination of IBM and Canonical technologies help organizations build or expand a data centre operating environment that IT staff can rely on and quickly incorporate for significantly lower cost than competing alternatives.

November 8, 2010

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Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft

Engineering, open source, Server

Earlier this year, MuleSoft approached us with the desire to partner and offer to work with Canonical to improve our default java container, Tomcat, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server. The idea was to make Tomcat on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS easier to download, install, and configure on Ubuntu than JBOSS is on RHEL. The Ubuntu Server [...]

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April 22, 2010

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Dell announces support for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud

Cloud, Partners, Server, Services

On Wednesday Dell announced a comprehensive overview of its enterprise strategy. Significant in its announcement, was the addition of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as an infrastructure solution, joining the proprietary offerings from VMWare and Microsoft. This is the first major offering of a true open source Cloud solution backed by a major corporate vendor. Dell [...]

March 24, 2010

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Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 released

Cloud, Server

We are ready to release the report on the server survey, the information for which was gathered at the tail end of 2009 by the server community in collaboration with Canonical. The survey contained a vast array of questions, many of which were general and many others user-prompted depending on previous response. We are grateful [...]

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Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently

Cloud, Server

A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor Cooper and Kamal Natesan of Intel and Dan Nurmi and Neil Soman of Eucalyptus Systems and a few others on developing a proof of concept [...]

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March 11, 2010

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Upcoming 10.04 LTS webinars for ISVs

Desktop, Server

The April release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu on server and desktop is certainly generating a lot of excitement internally, in our customer base and amongst our existing partners as the VAR Guy reflects. Long-term support (LTS) releases, particularly on server have become the deployment platform for our users. Take a look at [...]

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March 3, 2010

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ISV support for Ubuntu Server Edition widens

Partners, Server

This week were very pleased to see three companies behind three great technologies announce their support for Ubuntu. In the run up to the LTS in late April we are keen that our users are aware of the growing number of application options that they can have on their preferred operating system. These will be [...]

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January 22, 2010

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2009 Ubuntu Server Edition user survey

Engineering, open source, Server

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server Edition in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of the product.  This is the second edition of this initiative which was first introduced in 2008. In an effort to better understand, support and further the Ubuntu Server Edition [...]

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December 3, 2009

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