Tom Callway

19 posts

Director of Cloud Marketing

Tom Callway is Director of Cloud Marketing at Canonical with specific responsibility for field marketing. He has been working for high growth, B2B technology start-ups for over ten years. Before joining Canonical in 2014 Tom ran the marketing team at MariaDB, an open source database vendor. Tom lives in Twickenham, UK with his wife Rosie, two children and miniture Schnauzer.

Tom Callway
9 March 2015

Ubuntu at WHD.global 2015

Article Cloud and server

With MWC2015 barely over, we’re now looking forward to the next big European cloud event – WHD.global 2015 – held at Europa Park in Rust, Germany. WHD.global 2015, now in its 11th year, promises to be as popular and diverse as ever. The event organisers expect over 6,000 vendors, service providers and software developers to

Tom Callway
9 March 2015

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

Introducing lxcfs

Article Cloud and server

Last year around this time, we announced the availability of cgmanager, a daemon allowing users and programs to easily administer and delegate cgroups over a dbus interface. It was key to supporting nested containers and unprivileged users. While its dbus interface turned out to have tremendous benefits (I wasn’t sold...

Tom Callway
2 March 2015

Tom Callway
19 February 2015

Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

Article Cloud and server

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on...

Tom Callway
19 February 2015

Tom Callway
18 February 2015

OpenStack needs you! Get voting for our ODS Vancouver talks!

Article Cloud and server

We’ve submitted over 30 talks to the upcoming ODS in Vancouver and really need your help to make ensure they are included in the schedule. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk. The OpenStack Summit talk selection process is broken Speaker: Mark Baker Track: Community Building OpenStack is

Tom Callway
18 February 2015

Tom Callway
10 February 2015

Create DevOps Magic on Azure with Canonical’s Juju

Article Cloud and server

The following is a guest post by Samuel Cozannet, a Strategic Program Manager for Canonical, an Azure partner and the company behind Ubuntu. At Canonical, we’re really happy to see Microsoft increasingly engage with the open source community. This is particularly true with its cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, where...

Tom Callway
10 February 2015