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Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other successful open ...

Canonical
20 November 2014

MAAS 1.7: one MAAS, multiple operating systems

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

A few weeks ago, we released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS for servers and cloud, which included a beta version of Metal-As-A-Service (MAAS) 1.7. Today, we are delighted to release this version for general availability. The flagship new feature is that MAAS is now able to provision all major server operating systems. Together with its support for ...

Canonical
2 September 2014

Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit ...

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge potential of this partne ...

Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for ...

Canonical
4 December 2012

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

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or Google Android device ...

Canonical
12 November 2012

Windows 8 part 2: Licensing complexity

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Last time we talked about how Windows 8 brings a dramatic shift to user experience. Today we’re going to explore whether businesses can escape the Window’s licensing complexity for a simpler, more cost-effective approach. It comes round like Christmas. And just as family rows over who-sleeps-where and who-eats-what are part of many a Yule ...

Canonical
26 October 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu Server

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

What’s different about Ubuntu Server? Is it secure enough to use in my business? Will it work on my hardware? Whether you’ve already deployed Ubuntu in your business or are just starting to consider it, we know that you’re bound to have questions as have others before you. We have asked our customer-facing technical heads ...

Canonical
8 October 2012

Windows 8 migration? Let’s open the debate

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

It’s the CIO’s nightmare scenario. The chief executive boots up on a Monday morning and spits coffee and pastry as he struggles in vain to find the essential application feature once close to his fingertips. The look and layout of a vital business program has changed with a software upgrade and now the company’s most ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Metal Sales deploys mission-critical servers five times faster with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

US-based Metal Sales Manufacturing needed to upgrade its server infrastructure so that it could accelerate processes, integrate new applications and scale to meet future requirements. The company needed to implement a cost-effective solution that could improve efficiencies across the organisation. Metal Sales chose to implement Ubuntu Ser ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, ...

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