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Mark Shuttleworth
31 March 2014

#10 Ubuntu is built on IAAS for IAAS users

Ubuntu User Experience

Ubuntu is famous for “making things easy”. That’s just as important on the cloud as it is in consumer devices, and we bring the same user-centric design to command-line driven core OS environments on the cloud that drives our desktop, tablet and phone development. The result is a lightweight, clean and fast platform for developers and dev ...

Canonical
28 March 2014

New committee to make cloud services instantly safer

Cloud and server Article

A few months ago, Canonical started to work with a set of partners to address the challenges around single sign-on for new services within an organisation. We created a committee to develop a solution that would ensure service authentication could happen instantaneously, saving organisations often months in the roll out of new services. T ...

Mark Baker
27 March 2014

An insight into supporting OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

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 provide them ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Latest from the web team — March 2014

Cloud and server Notes

Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve just launched a new version of the site Ubuntu.com: we’ve launched a localised Chinese homepage that highlights Ubuntu Kylin Juju G ...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Ubuntu Resources — beta 2!

Ubuntu Featured

A new version of the Ubuntu Resources site is now live, with many tweaks and layout improvements targeted mainly at visitors using medium-sized screens, such as tablets. Ubuntu Resources homepage viewed on a Kindle Fire HD Filtered search If you search for a specific term, you can now filter the search results by topic (such ...

Canonical
25 March 2014

An Ubuntu PC for everyone in Penn Manor School District

Desktop Case study

Challenge With just 400 Macbooks shared among 1,725 students and ever-changing educational needs, Penn Manor school district needed more than just replacement machines. It needed to provide continuous access to a range of computing facilities – and it needed to do so for every student. Yet the cost to provide new machines for all its ...

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: making the rules a reality (3)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The rules document we drafted proved a useful and good guide for those few development days, and a proof of concept was created and presented to the rest of the team. When we all sat down to review the result, a few things were clear: ...

Canonical
18 March 2014

Customer stories from OpenStack+VMware projects

Cloud and server Webinar

Tuesday, 18th March — 15:00 GMT/10:00 EST In this webinar, Dave Russell, Head of Sales Engineering at Canonical, and Ramiro Salas, Global Technology Specialist for OpenStack at VMware, will walk you through some of our “war stories” from customer engagements getting both Ubuntu OpenStack and VMware infrastructure to work together, and hig ...

Inayaili de León Persson
18 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: pilot projects (4)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. Making www.ubuntu.com responsive has been an ongoing goal of ours for a while, and we’ve been discussing and preparing for it for over a year. However, the rest of the world doesn’t wait, and the work doesn’t stop coming in! We knew that a couple ...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: setting the rules (2)

Ubuntu Featured

This post is part of the series ‘Making ubuntu.com responsive‘. The front end framework that powers www.ubuntu.com represents the visual evolution of the site over the past few years: designs have become cleaner, lighter and more open. It was designed without responsiveness in mind, but it has proven flexible, robust and great for our nee ...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 March 2014

Making ubuntu.com responsive: intro (1)

Ubuntu Featured

We’ve known for a while it was time to convert our main site, www.ubuntu.com, into a responsive site, and we’re now nearing the end of the project! The main www.ubuntu.com site receives millions of visitors every month and it holds information on the variety of Ubuntu products and services, allowing people to download Ubuntu, get ...

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