Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts

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

Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

Server Ubuntu

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in October, Ubuntu now has a GUI for Juju, the service orchestration tool for server and cloud. In this post we wanted to expand a bit more on how Juju makes it

Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Canonical
29 November 2012

What’s next for OpenStack?

Videos Cloud and server

OpenStack is an open source phenomenon. What started as a disruptive force for early adopting developers has morphed into the platform of choice for some of the world’s biggest clouds.

Canonical
29 November 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

Canonical
21 November 2012

What’s Ubuntu’s role in OpenStack?

Videos Cloud and server

Ubuntu is the fastest and best-supported route to creating an OpenStack cloud.

Canonical
21 November 2012

Canonical
14 November 2012

Cloud Model Checklist

open source Ubuntu

You have critical decisions ahead as you take your first steps into cloud computing. One of them will be whether to build a private cloud infrastructure in your own data centre, make use of one of the public cloud services offered by vendors like Amazon, Rackspace and HP, or combine the two in a ‘hybrid

Canonical
14 November 2012

Kyle MacDonald
14 November 2012

Cloud computing: private, public or both?

News Cloud and server

This article was published in Virtual Strategy magazine earlier this month. We think you’ll like it, so here it is. “A growing number of organisations worldwide are seeing the value of cloud computing as a way of increasing IT flexibility and lowering in-house infrastructure costs. However, achieving the right blend of...

Kyle MacDonald
14 November 2012

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A

Article Cloud and server

What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in the Ubuntu Cloud webinar) ANSWER The question is a serious one. Thousands of developers from around the world are involved in the creation of open source...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Do closed clouds slow down time to market?

News Cloud and server

Get close to the business. It is a maxim CIOs live by. It means understanding exactly what drives the organisation. In a downturn, everyone wants to cut costs, but in some businesses, this is not as important as other ambitions, such as accelerating product development. In the pharmaceuticals industry, for example, time...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Mark Baker
29 October 2012

The new Juju GUI: because a picture paints a thousand words

Server Ubuntu

Hardened sysadmins and operators often spurn graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as being slow, cumbersome, unscriptable and inflexible. GUIs are for wimps, right? Well, I’m not going to argue – and certainly, command line interfaces (CLIs) have their benefits, for those comfortable using them. But we are seeing a...

Mark Baker
29 October 2012

Canonical
26 October 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu Server

White paper Desktop

What’s different about Ubuntu Server? Is it secure enough to use in my business? Will it work on my hardware? Whether you’ve already deployed Ubuntu in your business or are just starting to consider it, we know that you’re bound to have questions as have others before you. We have asked our customer-facing technical heads

Canonical
26 October 2012

Canonical
18 October 2012

Ubuntu Server 12.10: all you need for cloud

News Cloud and server

Ubuntu 12.10 Server gives cloud developers and enterprises easy access to the latest open cloud technology, including OpenStack Folsom Canonical today announces that Ubuntu Server 12.10 will be available for download on the 18th October 2012. Ubuntu Server 12.10 includes the Folsom release of OpenStack, alongside...

Canonical
18 October 2012

Canonical
8 October 2012

What is OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

OpenStack is big news. Canonical’s crack team of cloud experts explain why it’s going to change your business for good.

Canonical
8 October 2012

Canonical
8 October 2012

Cloud glossary and definitions

Article Cloud and server

Cloud has created its own vocabulary, with new words and phrases to describe technologies, practices and concepts that had scarcely been imagined five or ten years ago. And while everyone can agree on the definition of some of them, others are still in flux and used in different ways by different vendors and groups. It’s

Canonical
8 October 2012

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