Blog posts written by Mark Baker

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Article Cloud and server

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision...

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

Article Cloud and server

Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s...

Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Mark Baker
17 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Server Ubuntu

Today is a big day for Ubuntu and a big day for cloud computing: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is released. Everyone involved with Ubuntu can’t help but be impressed and stirred about the significance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We are impressed because Ubuntu is gaining extensive traction outside of the tech luminaries such as Netflix, Snapchat

Mark Baker
17 April 2014

Mark Baker
27 March 2014

An insight into supporting OpenStack

Server Ubuntu

It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, Bloomberg and HP all trust Ubuntu Server as the right platform to run OpenStack. A fair proportion of the Ubuntu OpenStack users out there also engage Canonical to...

Mark Baker
27 March 2014

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

When it comes to cloud and scale out, Ubuntu has the winning model

open source Ubuntu

Two of the most frequently asked questions about Ubuntu and Canonical are: * So, just how do you make money when Ubuntu is free? and * Ubuntu is great for developers, but is it really suitable for ‘enterprise use’? We’re trying to do things differently, so we’re not surprised by these questions. What many people

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Canonical welcomes Joyent to its Certified Public Cloud Programme

News Cloud and server

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience, so today we announced a partnership with Joyent to bring optimised and fully supported Ubuntu server images to users of Joyent’s cloud platform. Ubuntu is the most popular guest OS in the cloud and combined with Joyent’s High Performance...

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

News Cloud and server

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best Cloud Automation Solution – a category new to the awards this year. The Cloud Awards are in their third year and recognise excellence in cloud computing across the...

Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Mark Baker
9 January 2014

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

Server Ubuntu

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one of the most satisfying results of our work and is the best measure of the if we are doing the right thing or not. What is

Mark Baker
9 January 2014

Mark Baker
8 January 2014

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

Article Cloud and server

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of our biggest goals: cloud interoperability and OS convergence. First and foremost, creating the best freely available software continued to be a primary goal over

Mark Baker
8 January 2014

Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.

Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Server Ubuntu

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The...

Mark Baker
15 November 2013

Mark Baker
17 October 2013

The open cloud future is here: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana

News Cloud and server

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us

Mark Baker
17 October 2013

Mark Baker
10 October 2013

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

Server Ubuntu

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with VMWare vSphere integration, faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for...

Mark Baker
10 October 2013

Mark Baker
3 October 2013

OpenStack India Day and APAC Momentum

Article Cloud and server

Recently I had the privilege of presenting at OpenStack India Day in Bangalore. I was in great company, alongside speakers from SwiftStack, HP, the OpenStack Foundation and other key contributors to OpenStack. The conversations generated at the sold-out event covered a broad range of both technical and industry topics,...

Mark Baker
3 October 2013

Mark Baker

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