49 posts by Mark Baker
Ubuntu
OpenStack is 3
by Mark Baker on 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...
Cloud and server
Create trusted compute pools in the cloud
by Mark Baker on 2 July 2013
Security is a big topic and concerns about security in the cloud is often cited by enterprises as a reason for not migrating workloads….featured-article...
Ubuntu
The Juju Charm Championship begins
by Mark Baker on 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...
Ubuntu
Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack
by Mark Baker on 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...
Ubuntu
London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd
by Mark Baker on 13 May 2013
If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London...
Ubuntu
Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration
by Mark Baker on 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...
Cloud and server
Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A
by Mark Baker on 12 November 2012
What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in...
Cloud and server
Do closed clouds slow down time to market?
by Mark Baker on 12 November 2012
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...
Ubuntu
The new Juju GUI: because a picture paints a thousand words
by Mark Baker on 29 October 2012
Hardened sysadmins and operators often spurn graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as being slow, cumbersome, unscriptable and inflexible. GUIs are for wimps,...
Ubuntu
Now you can have your OpenStack cake and eat it*
by Mark Baker on 14 September 2012
Have you ever wanted to experiment with the latest cutting-edge cloud software, but run it on the same long-term support release of Ubuntu that you have all...
Ubuntu
Calxeda delivers ARM powered Cloud
by Mark Baker on 8 May 2012
On Monday, Calxeda, one of the leading innovators bringing revolutionary efficiency to the datacenter, unveiled their new EnergyCore reference server live...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS certified on HP ProLiant servers: computing for the hyperscale era
by Mark Baker on 19 April 2012
Today, Canonical and HP announced that Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is to be certified and supported by HP on its Proliant Systems:...