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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,...