Archives

187 posts from 2013

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

By Canonical, 18 November 2013

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. ...

The new Ubuntu Resources

By Inayaili de León Persson, 18 November 2013

Today we’ve launched the alpha version of our latest project: the Ubuntu Resources website. This is our first responsive project that follows the mobile-first...

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

By Mark Baker, 15 November 2013

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy....

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

By Canonical, 15 November 2013

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...

November Brown Bag lunch

By Canonical, 15 November 2013

Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...

Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

By Canonical, 11 November 2013

In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...

App Design Clinic #4

By Canonical, 11 November 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...

Trademarks, community and criticism

By Canonical, 8 November 2013

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

By Canonical, 7 November 2013

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...

A week in San Francisco

By Canonical, 7 November 2013

I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...

Planning a cathedral at the bazaar

By Peter Mahnke, 6 November 2013

So I am stretching the metaphor a bit, but I think it accurately explains my experience of the recent cloud sprint in San Francisco. The week starts with some...