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HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu

Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month....

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds

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...

Don’t miss the inaugural Ubuntu Cloud Summit

Kicking off this May, the Ubuntu Cloud Summit is a one day event for both technology and business people interested in what cloud computing can do for their...

“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta

MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the...

Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends

Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London...

Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final

I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 3

So as promised let’s take a look a the next set of results from the Ubuntu Survey.  I am going to bundle together the broader world of Ubuntu looking at other...


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Holistic UI is smarter UX

It’s only by looking at the whole, that we can design great experiences. And only by building a community of both system and application developers that care...

The Pangolin wallpaper selection takes flight

For another cycle a selection of images has been put forward for inclusion in Ubuntu. As there have been some questions on other blogs about the process I...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 2

Yesterday we looked at the demographics of the respondents to the survey and some observations about the validity of the date. I recommend you read that post...

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 1

Ok, we got a lot of response to the user survey poll, so thank you to everybody that took part. I will publish access to all the results through the fantastic...

World Hosting Day Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with Ubuntu

At World Hosting Day in Germany today, Dell announced its partnering with Canonical to deliver and support Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with Ubuntu...

Ubuntu Cloud Day in India – April 4th, Bangalore

Ubuntu Cloud Day is Canonical’s first Cloud event in Bangalore. With keynote speeches from various members of the Canonical team and a more focussed technical...

Task switching in Ubuntu, and a introduction to ‘The Spread’

Introduction to task switching A key part of any operating system user interface is how it enables the user to switch between multiple tasks. In most desktop...

Official Ubuntu Cloud Guest from Canonical Now Available on Amazon EC2

We’re pleased to announce that official Ubuntu Cloud Guest Images are now listed on the Amazon EC2 quick start. Users can now find and launch official Ubuntu...


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