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Blog posts tagged
"Microsoft"


Canonical
31 October 2016

Webinar: Deploying Microsoft technologies on OpenStack

Cloud and server Webinar

Watch On Demand In this webinar we explore the common challenges organisations face in deploying and managing Windows workloads at scale on OpenStack. We look at how Windows Charms can integrate seamlessly with existing Juju Charms to provide a powerful way to reduce workload deployments from days to minutes on both bare metal and public ...


Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Cloud and server Article

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years.  But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on ...


John Zannos
26 January 2016

Microsoft announces first Technical Preview of Azure Stack with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

The cloud is about choice, portability and scale. I believe it is important for every element of the cloud ecosystem to support and expand both. Ubuntu is a critical part of delivering on choice for the cloud by supplying a consistent Ubuntu experience to developers and user regardless on which public or private cloud they ...


Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Cloud and server Article

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other successful open ...


Maarten Ectors
19 May 2015

IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere

Internet of Things Article

IoT World was an eye opener for many. The same open source operating system that everybody loves from the cloud now powered the first smart fridge with apps from GE, the first Ubuntu Core drone with apps from Erle-Robotics, industrial gateways with apps, Pengiun Computing professional top of the rack switches with apps, Acer smart home hu ...


Canonical
24 April 2015

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

Cloud and server News

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DataArt has collaborate ...


Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

The power of Software Defined Networking appliances – SDNA

Internet of Things Article

For Mobile World Congress we purchased the cheapest Intel server with 6 ports from the Amazon Store: After installing Snappy Ubuntu Core and working with partners like Microsoft, F5, Dataart, Cybervision, Forgerock, ARM, Balabit, Zabbix, etc. and the Ubuntu Core engineering team, the server became this: A switch, firewall and load balance ...


Canonical
10 March 2015

Microsoft & Canonical demonstrate first fully automated OCP Deployment

Cloud and server Article

Interesting news on the Open Compute Project (OCP) front this week as we extend our partnership with Microsoft to demonstrate the value of our Metal-as-a-Server (MAAS) deployment solution within an OCP environment. At this week’s OCP Summit, taking place in San Jose today and tomorrow (10th and 11th March), we will demonstrate how we’re w ...


Tom Callway
19 February 2015

Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

Cloud and server Article

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu. This is ...


Mark Baker
17 September 2013

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

Cloud and server News

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 Ubuntu Certified i ...


Canonical
16 April 2013

Enterprise cloud computing with Ubuntu on Windows Azure

Cloud and server News

The emergence of public cloud computing has changed the IT landscape for developers and enterprises, making it significantly easier and more cost effective to develop and deploy new applications, services and infrastructure. Enterprises can choose among cloud providers to meet their needs for performance, features, price and flexibility t ...


Canonical
4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

Desktop Case study

Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...