Blog posts tagged
"Enterprise"

89 posts


Canonical
26 March 2015

Ericsson and Canonical partner to drive cloud innovation

Article Cloud and server

Three-year partnership to support industry with proven cloud technology and drive cloud innovation Innovation around OPNFV (NFV/VNF) and IT cloud Ericsson to deploy Ubuntu Server OS as Host OS for Cloud offering Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced a three year partnership with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), a...

Canonical
26 March 2015


Canonical
16 March 2015

MWC 2015: a week to remember

Article Cloud and server

As the lights go down on Mobile World Congress 2015, we’ve taken a bit of time to reflect on what has become one of our favourite events in the conference calender. And what a week it was! Congress touched every team within Canoncial and so here’s a bit of insight into what we did there:

Canonical
16 March 2015


John Dolen
14 August 2014

Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA v2) for Big Data and OpenStack.  Read this CVD to learn about setting up OpenStack on Ubuntu to...

John Dolen
14 August 2014


John Dolen
13 August 2014

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

Article Cloud and server

IBM recently posted  “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at...

John Dolen
13 August 2014


Mark Baker
22 July 2014

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

Article Cloud and server

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in production clouds. Enterprises are skeptical of OpenStack’s ability to deliver a solid platform that is able to meet the availability, security and manageability demands of...

Mark Baker
22 July 2014


Mark Baker
2 August 2013

When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key challenges in a world where numbers can grow very large very fast. Whether it’s huge amounts of data being collected for analysis, websites that

Mark Baker
2 August 2013


Canonical
12 June 2013

Canonical and Autonomic Resources partner to bring Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to the US federal government

News Cloud and server

Canonical and Autonomic Resources today announced the availability of an integrated product based on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Dell Blade server hardware under the ARC-P cloud product family. ARC-P-UEC is now available for purchase as single SKU on Autonomic’s GSA Schedule 70 contract. UEC has proved very...

Canonical
12 June 2013


Canonical
21 May 2013

Cyberport offers innovative cloud-based services for Hong Kong’s technology entrepreneurs

Case study Cloud and server

OpenStack and Ubuntu provide secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure Summary To give local start-ups and entrepreneurs access to infrastructure and services on demand, Hong Kong’s digital community Cyberport built a new, open-source cloud computing environment on OpenStack and Ubuntu. Following 18 months of...

Canonical
21 May 2013


Canonical
16 April 2013

Enterprise cloud computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

News Cloud and server

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to develop and deploy new applications, services and infrastructure. Enterprises can choose among cloud providers to meet their needs for performance, features,...

Canonical
16 April 2013


Canonical
7 January 2013

What are the management factors in planning a migration from Windows to Ubuntu?

News Desktop

Best of our webinars – (From the Ubuntu: The Desktop of the Future webinar @ 29.25 min) ANSWER Large scale migrations from Windows to Linux desktop can be done well. But some very ambitious projects to move to an open source desktop have run aground because the complexity has been too great for the organisation to manage

Canonical
7 January 2013


Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for

Canonical
14 December 2012


nickbarcet
12 December 2012

To prepare for the hybrid future, try OpenStack now

Article Cloud and server

Nigel Beighton, International VP of Technology, Rackspace Cloud computing is changing everything we know. Immense mathematical problems like the sequencing of the human genome and the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply wouldn’t have been solved without access to massive computing power, precisely when it was needed....

nickbarcet
12 December 2012


Canonical
4 December 2012

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

News Desktop

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or...

Canonical
4 December 2012


Canonical
21 November 2012

Six near-future scenarios

Article Cloud and server

Enterprise cloud computing might be uncertain. But if you want to start making it happen then you’ve come to the right place. This new, free ebook will show you why Ubuntu is the ideal platform for the enterprise cloud. There are six major scenarios that will start to impact your business soon.Here are the six

Canonical
21 November 2012