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Blog posts tagged
"Server"


Canonical
9 January 2015

A year in the Cloud

Cloud and server Article

The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud.  Including ...


Canonical
23 October 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 delivers leading scale-out cloud technology

Cloud and server News

Ubuntu 14.10 for cloud and servers is available for download; includes industry-leading, secure bare-metal LXC containers, multi-OS provisioning, and solutions for OpenStack, big data and Cloud Foundry as well as Docker 1.2 Scale-out orchestration of Windows workloads alongside Linux workloads with Juju Canonical’s cloud ecosystem continu ...


Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

Ubuntu Server

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 applications the renown ...


Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Ubuntu the challenger?

Ubuntu Ubuntu Advantage

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 infrastructure is be ...


Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Cloud gets a boost with VMware vCHS

Ubuntu Server

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 many customers ...


Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

“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 OpenStack and that ...


Mark Baker
19 April 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS certified on HP ProLiant servers: computing for the hyperscale era

Ubuntu Server

Today, Canonical and HP announced that Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is to be certified and supported by HP on its Proliant Systems: http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-lts-server-be-certified-supported-hp-proliant-systems This is a huge announcement for us at Canonical. It’s also testament that HP sees real business benefits in offeri ...


Canonical
24 March 2010

Ubuntu Server Survey 2010 released

Ubuntu Server

We are ready to release the report on the server survey, the information for which was gathered at the tail end of 2009 by the server community in collaboration with Canonical. The survey contained a vast array of questions, many of which were general and many others user-prompted depending on previous response. We are grateful ...


Canonical
3 December 2009

2009 Ubuntu Server Edition user survey

Ubuntu Server

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server Edition in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of the product.  This is the second edition of this initiative which was first introduced in 2008. In an effort to better understand, support and further the Ubuntu Server Edition ...


Canonical
16 February 2009

HP and Canonical work towards Ubuntu certification on servers

Ubuntu Server

Moving Ubuntu into the enterprise, especially on the server, has been a significant undertaking. While the Ubuntu Server Edition has been around since late 2005, it really came into its own in mid 2006 with Ubuntu 6.06LTS — the first Long Term Supported version. The LTS versions are released every two years and supported for ...


Canonical
4 February 2009

Redmonk and Ubuntu survey: results are in!

Ubuntu Server

Over the last two months Canonical and the Ubuntu server community ran a user survey to delve into the detail of Ubuntu server use. You can see the original launch plan here. The audience was self-selecting; we promoted it through the Ubuntu website and some other popular Linux server forums. Our friends at the analyst ...


Canonical
29 October 2008

Landscape 1.2 Released with More Customizable Features

Ubuntu Ubuntu Advantage

We have just released Landscape 1.2 which is the next version of our management and monitoring software that lets you manage multiple Ubuntu systems as easily as one. In addition to provisioning, package and security updates management, Landscape enables you to control and monitor all your systems from a single Web interface reducing the ...