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Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

By Mark Baker, 10 December 2012

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in...

Searching in the Dash in Ubuntu 13.04

By Canonical, 7 December 2012

The Ubuntu 12.10 release saw the Dash take another important step towards fulfilling its intended purpose of being an online, global search tool that helps...

Windows 8 part 3: Don’t let legacy apps block the benefits of open source

By Canonical, 4 December 2012

Hidden away in the dark corner of every business there are monsters that scare the bejesus out of many an IT manager. They are little legacy applications,...

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

By Canonical, 4 December 2012

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation...

Design and arts in education

By Canonical, 30 November 2012

Ubuntu’s design team supports #includedesign, which is a important initiative – supported by many design organizations and companies.

Sputnik – Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop is here

By Canonical, 29 November 2012

Ubuntu has long been a favourite with developers – especially in the worlds of web and cloud development. We’re excited that, from today, serious (and...

Ubuntu and BitNami

By Canonical, 29 November 2012

Learn why BitNami uses Ubuntu on Amazon Web Services to help developers adapt their applications to work on the desktop, the server and the cloud.

What’s next for OpenStack?

By Canonical, 29 November 2012

OpenStack is an open source phenomenon. What started as a disruptive force for early adopting developers has morphed into the platform of choice for some of...

llgo update #10: "hello, world!" redux

By Canonical, 25 November 2012

It’s about time for another progress update on llgo. I’ve made decent progress recently, so let’s go through what’s new.HighlightsI’ve been refactoring bits...

Solving design problems

By Matthew Paul Thomas, 23 November 2012

To solve a design problem, define the target user, test the existing solution (if any), evaluate alternative solutions, and test with real users. The more of...

Six near-future scenarios

By Canonical, 21 November 2012

Enterprise cloud computing might be uncertain. But if you want to start making it happen then you’ve come to the right place. This new, free ebook will show...