Cloud and server archives
32 posts from 2012
Cloud glossary and definitions
By Canonical, 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...
The business case: open source maturity
By Canonical, 26 September 2012
Like nearly all companies around the world, our business has benefited massively from open source technology. Samba has helped us allow Windows users upload...
Open cloud computing: mergers and aquisitions
By Canonical, 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...
Cloud computing primer
By nickbarcet, 26 September 2012
Our ebook is about making the cloud as straight forward as possible. If you want to reap the benefits of the open cloud but don’t know exactly where to start...
Bancard streamlines PCI compliance with Canonical’s Landscape
By Canonical, 21 September 2012
Landscape centralises management of Ubuntu servers to increase efficiency and support compliance with financial industry regulations Summary NA Bancard...
Landscape update improves ROI and compliance for Ubuntu in the enterprise
By Canonical, 13 September 2012
New data suggests Landscape users can expect a return of more than 1,000% over five years Canonical today announces a significant update to Landscape, its...
Capgemini deploys hybrid thin client solution with Ubuntu Advantage
By Canonical, 6 September 2012
Summary Capgemini’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions have helped some of the world’s largest, multinational corporations transform their business...
Ubuntu Online Tour
By Anthony Dillon, 9 August 2012
We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out...
Creating the open cloud
By Canonical, 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...
Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)
By Canonical, 16 April 2012
Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and...
Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds
By Canonical, 13 April 2012
Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack Clouds Canonical today released for beta testing a new cloud proxy, providing APIs for OpenStack that are also...
“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta
By Canonical, 4 April 2012
MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the...