Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.

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What’s Ubuntu’s role in OpenStack?

by Canonical on 21 November 2012

Ubuntu is the fastest and best-supported route to creating an OpenStack cloud.

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...

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...

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 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...

Manage thousands of desktops, servers and cloud instances with Landscape

by Canonical on 17 October 2012

Landscape provides a single, easy-to-use, browser-based control panel, through which you can manage your machines from anywhere. With a fully scriptable API,...

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 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...

The business case: open source maturity

by Canonical on 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 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...

Cloud computing primer

by nickbarcet on 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 on 21 September 2012

Landscape centralises management of Ubuntu servers to increase efficiency and support compliance with financial industry regulations Summary NA Bancard...