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14 November 2012

Cloud Model Checklist

Ubuntu open source

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 your own data centre, make use of one of the public cloud services offered by vendors like Amazon, Rackspace and HP, or combine the two in a ‘hybrid ...

Kyle MacDonald
14 November 2012

Cloud computing: private, public or both?

Cloud and server News

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 worldwide are seeing the value of cloud computing as a way of increasing IT flexibility and lowering in-house infrastructure costs. However, achieving the right blend of security, control a ...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A

Cloud and server Article

What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in the Ubuntu Cloud webinar) ANSWER The question is a serious one. Thousands of developers from around the world are involved in the creation of open source software, including Linux. ...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Do closed clouds slow down time to market?

Cloud and server News

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 costs, but in some businesses, this is not as important as other ambitions, such as accelerating product development. In the pharmaceuticals industry, for example, time to market for ...

Canonical
12 November 2012

Windows 8 part 2: Licensing complexity

Desktop News

Last time we talked about how Windows 8 brings a dramatic shift to user experience. Today we’re going to explore whether businesses can escape the Window’s licensing complexity for a simpler, more cost-effective approach. It comes round like Christmas. And just as family rows over who-sleeps-where and who-eats-what are part of many a Yule ...

Canonical
8 November 2012

Splice, Walking Mars, Machinarium, and Crayon Physics Deluxe debut in Ubuntu Software Center

Ubuntu Desktop

Another selection of mobile games from the Humble Bundle has been released with the fourth installment of the Humble Bundle for Android. As always we have awesome Ubuntu Desktop debuts: Splice, Walking Mars, Machinarium, and Crayon Physics Deluxe all now available in Ubuntu Software Center which is the easiest way to download and receive ...

Canonical
8 November 2012

Catch the cloud with OpenStack webinars

Ubuntu open source

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 cloud platforms. OpenStack delivers open standards, modularity and scalability, and avoids vendor lock-in. Join this webinar to find out why OpenStack is surging ahead, learn about the O ...

Canonical
5 November 2012

Back to Lecturing for the day

Ubuntu User Experience

In my last post, I spoke about my transition from academia to industry. One thing that I felt I would miss were the opportunities to speak to students, and watch their progression throughout the year. So when I was asked to go back to the University to give a talk, I jumped at the chance. ...

Canonical
1 November 2012

Canonical joins Linaro Enterprise Group and commits Ubuntu hyperscale availability for ARM V8 in 2013

Ubuntu News

Canonical continues its leadership of commercial deployment for ARM-based servers through membership of Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) Ubuntu, the only commercially supported OS for ARM v7 today, commits to support ARM v8 server next year Ubuntu extends its position as the natural choice for hyperscale server computing with long term suppo ...

Inayaili de León Persson
30 October 2012

A fresh-looking Design Blog

Ubuntu Article

It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve finally done it: the Design Blog has a new look! Let me take you through the main aspects we wanted to improve on. Why change? The last blog design was nearly four years old. With its small font sizes and crammed pages, the text was difficult to ...

Mark Baker
29 October 2012

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

Ubuntu Server

Hardened sysadmins and operators often spurn graphical user interfaces (GUIs) as being slow, cumbersome, unscriptable and inflexible. GUIs are for wimps, right? Well, I’m not going to argue – and certainly, command line interfaces (CLIs) have their benefits, for those comfortable using them. But we are seeing a pronounced change in the in ...

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