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16 April 2012

Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)

Cloud and server White paper

Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and authorisation (Basic Auth, OAuth, and OpenID, to give a few examples). Simply put, it allows clients to obtain security tokens to access different cloud services. Keystone was spawned from the ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
13 April 2012

System status menu refinements in Ubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu Design

For Ubuntu 12.04, we’re planning to merge the user and system menus, make major changes to the messaging menu, introduce a new sync menu, and retire the printing status menu. There are plenty of smaller changes you can help out with, too. ...

Cezzaine Zaher
13 April 2012

Canonical is Headline Sponsor of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference

Ubuntu Server

Canonical is proud to be one of the headline sponsors of the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference next week in San Francsico. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth will be presenting at the conference on April 19th. Mark’s presentation, From Blue Skies to Big Deployments, will outline how we can deliver the robustness, scale and innovation tha ...

nickbarcet
13 April 2012

HPCloud to go in public beta with OpenStack on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Partners

Six month after starting a private beta for HPCloud, HP has announced this week that their cloud is ready to start scaling up to a public beta next month.  This is a major milestone for HPCloud which coincides with two major events: the release of OpenStack Essex last week and the upcoming release of Ubuntu ...

Canonical
13 April 2012

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds

Cloud and server Article

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 common to Amazon’s EC2 and AWS public cloud services. The proxy, called “Any Web Service Over Me” (AWSOME), simplifies the deployment of hybrid cloud workloads across AWS and OpenSt ...

Cezzaine Zaher
5 April 2012

Don’t miss the inaugural Ubuntu Cloud Summit

Ubuntu Server

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 organisations. Hosted by Canonical and Redmonk we’ll be looking at how open-source is playing a critical role in the move to cloud computing. Delegates will also hear ...

Canonical
4 April 2012

“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta

Cloud and server News

MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the physical server provisioning process. MAAS is designed for horizontally scaled environments such as big data workloads and internal clouds, but works just as well for any cloud-like deploy ...

Canonical
2 April 2012

Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends

Cloud and server Case study

Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London technology company, provides unique insight for music industry players and artists. It does this by analysing vast quantities of online data from music download sites, social networks, ...

Canonical
2 April 2012

Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand

Cloud and server Case study

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading e-commerce and auction site. Founded in 1999 with a handful of employees, it is now the eighth-largest online retailer, handling up to two million site requests per minute and four millio ...

Canonical
29 March 2012

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final

Ubuntu open source

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 three surveys, open source stood out as the key attribute, true whatever the age of the respondents and whenever they adopted Ubuntu. Curiosity was almost equally as important, and ...

Canonical
27 March 2012

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 3

Ubuntu Canonical News

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 OSes people use, Ubuntu One usage, whether people are interested in the new products announced and likelihood to purchase Ubuntu pre-installed. As usual where ...

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