Mark Baker

Voting begins for OpenStack Summit sessions in Paris

by Mark Baker on 31 July 2014

Voting is now open for sessions to be run at the OpenStack ‘Kilo’ Summit in Paris in November. There have been hundreds of talk submissions, evidence if ever...

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

by Mark Baker on 22 July 2014

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in...

Fast with an extra helping of faster

by Mark Baker on 13 May 2014

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro...

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

by Mark Baker on 12 May 2014

Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

by Mark Baker on 17 April 2014

Today is a big day for Ubuntu and a big day for cloud computing: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is released. Everyone involved with Ubuntu can’t help but be impressed and...

An insight into supporting OpenStack

by Mark Baker on 27 March 2014

It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom,...

When it comes to cloud and scale out, Ubuntu has the winning model

by Mark Baker on 20 February 2014

Two of the most frequently asked questions about Ubuntu and Canonical are: * So, just how do you make money when Ubuntu is free? and * Ubuntu is great for...

Canonical welcomes Joyent to its Certified Public Cloud Programme

by Mark Baker on 20 February 2014

Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

by Mark Baker on 28 January 2014

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best...

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

by Mark Baker on 9 January 2014

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one...

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

by Mark Baker on 8 January 2014

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of...

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

by Mark Baker on 22 November 2013

The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.