Blog posts written by Mark Baker

Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

Server Ubuntu

The telco business has long prided itself on providing dependable services all day every day. Today, dial tones generally survive earthquakes, hurricanes, wars and power cuts and that is testimony to the service quality telcos provide. This high level of service quality runs through a telco’s DNA, which gives their...

Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Mark Baker
18 September 2013

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

Cloud Ubuntu

September 17th, 2013. Today, Canonical, in cooperation with Microsoft, is announcing that Juju fully supports deploying services on Ubuntu into Windows Azure. This means that from tomorrow, September 18th, Ubuntu users can use Juju with its intuitive GUI to design and deploy sophisticated application infrastructure...

Mark Baker
18 September 2013

Mark Baker
17 September 2013

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

News Cloud and server

September 17th, 2013. Today, Canonical, in cooperation with Microsoft, is announcing that Juju fully supports deploying services on Ubuntu into Windows Azure. This means that Ubuntu users can use Juju with its intuitive GUI to design and deploy sophisticated application infrastructure instantly into Windows Azure. Fresh...

Mark Baker
17 September 2013

Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Ubuntu the challenger?

Ubuntu Advantage Ubuntu

When it comes to using Linux on an enterprise server, Ubuntu is generally seen as the new challenger in a market dominated by established vendors specifically targeting enterprises. However, we are seeing signs that this is changing. The W3Techs data showing Ubuntu’s continued growth as a platform for online scale-out...

Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Cloud gets a boost with VMware vCHS

Server Ubuntu

On Monday August 26th, VMware announced the general availability of their vCloud Hybrid Service. This service, initially opened back in May to a restricted set of early adopters provides VMware customers with a means of being able to easily bring their workloads out of their own datacentres and into to the cloud. For...

Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Mark Baker
2 August 2013

When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter

Article Cloud and server

This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key challenges in a world where numbers can grow very large very fast. Whether it’s huge amounts of data being collected for analysis, websites that

Mark Baker
2 August 2013

Mark Baker
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment / integration and cloud orchestration

Server Ubuntu

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service...

Mark Baker
22 July 2013

Mark Baker
18 July 2013

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical

Cloud Ubuntu

We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud Product Management from VMware where he led its Cloud Infrastructure Platform effort and has a solid understanding of customer needs as they continue to move to virtual...

Mark Baker
18 July 2013

Mark Baker
17 July 2013

OpenStack is 3

Cloud Ubuntu

In April at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth quipped “My OpenStack, how you’ve grown” as a reference to the thousands of people in the room. OpenStack is indeed growing up and it seems incredible that this Friday, we celebrate OpenStacks’ 3rd Birthday. Incredible – it seems like only yesterday...

Mark Baker
17 July 2013

Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Create trusted compute pools in the cloud

White paper Cloud and server

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Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Mark Baker
1 July 2013

The Juju Charm Championship begins

Server Ubuntu

Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the Juju Charm Championship, in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative...

Mark Baker
1 July 2013

Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Server Ubuntu

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth demonstrated that life is going to get much less ‘interesting’ for people running...

Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Article Ubuntu

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined

Mark Baker
13 May 2013

Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

Server Ubuntu

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services. As we mentioned in October, Ubuntu now has a GUI for Juju, the service orchestration tool for server and cloud. In this post we wanted to expand a bit more on how Juju makes it

Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Mark Baker

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