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Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical

By Mark Baker, 18 July 2013

We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud...

OpenStack is 3

By Mark Baker, 17 July 2013

In April at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth quipped “My OpenStack, how you’ve grown” as a reference to the thousands of people in...

The Juju Charm Championship begins

By Mark Baker, 1 July 2013

Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now...

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

By Mark Baker, 11 June 2013

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at...

Enterprise Cloud Computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

By Canonical, 16 April 2013

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to...

Dell’s Ubuntu based Developer laptop just got better

By Canonical, 18 February 2013

Dell announced today an updated XPS 13, preloaded with Ubuntu, which has a full high-definition 1080p display. It will be available for sale in the USA  and...

Ubuntu helped set the stage for today's inauguration

By Jane Silber, 21 January 2013

Today’s inauguration of Barack Obama to his second term provides a good opportunity to look back at last year’s campaign and appreciate it in a bit more...

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

By Mark Baker, 10 December 2012

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in...

Sputnik – Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop is here

By Canonical, 29 November 2012

Ubuntu has long been a favourite with developers – especially in the worlds of web and cloud development. We’re excited that, from today, serious (and...

Cloud Model Checklist

By Canonical, 14 November 2012

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...

Catch the cloud with OpenStack webinars

By Canonical, 8 November 2012

OpenStack, your foundation for Cloud computing 14 November 2012 at 4pm GMT   The open cloud, based on OpenStack, is fast becoming one of the most popular...

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

By Mark Baker, 29 October 2012

Hardened sysadmins and operators often spurn graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as being slow, cumbersome, unscriptable and inflexible. GUIs are for wimps,...