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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...
Don’t miss the inaugural Ubuntu Cloud Summit
By Cezzaine Zaher, 5 April 2012
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
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...
Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends
By Canonical, 2 April 2012
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
By Canonical, 2 April 2012
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
By Canonical, 29 March 2012
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
By Canonical, 27 March 2012
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...
Holistic UI is smarter UX
By Mark Shuttleworth, 27 March 2012
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
By Canonical, 23 March 2012
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
By Canonical, 22 March 2012
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
By Canonical, 21 March 2012
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...