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Cloud Model Checklist
by Canonical on 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...
Cloud and server
Cloud computing: private, public or both?
by Kyle MacDonald on 14 November 2012
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...
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,...
Desktop
Top 10 questions about Ubuntu Server
by Canonical on 26 October 2012
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...
Cloud and server
Ubuntu Server 12.10: all you need for cloud
by Canonical on 18 October 2012
Ubuntu 12.10 Server gives cloud developers and enterprises easy access to the latest open cloud technology, including OpenStack Folsom Canonical today...
Cloud and server
What is OpenStack
by Canonical on 8 October 2012
OpenStack is big news. Canonical’s crack team of cloud experts explain why it’s going to change your business for good.
Cloud and server
Cloud glossary and definitions
by Canonical on 8 October 2012
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...
Cloud and server
Open cloud computing: mergers and aquisitions
by Canonical on 26 September 2012
Welcome to our new blog series. Over the next couple of months (at least) we’re going to take a look at the open cloud and what it means for businesses like...
Ubuntu
The future is open cloud
by Canonical on 10 August 2012
Open-source software is increasingly at the heart of the biggest changes happening in enterprise computing all over the world. For me, open cloud is a perfect...
Cloud and server
Creating the open cloud
by Canonical on 4 May 2012
Amid all the hype surrounding the cloud, there has been a growing need for open and proven components that enable any business to benefit from elastic...