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Blog posts tagged
"Enterprise"

Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for ...

nickbarcet
12 December 2012

To prepare for the hybrid future, try OpenStack now

Cloud and server Article

Nigel Beighton, International VP of Technology, Rackspace Cloud computing is changing everything we know. Immense mathematical problems like the sequencing of the human genome and the discovery of the Higgs Boson simply wouldn’t have been solved without access to massive computing power, precisely when it was needed. Closer to home, the m ...

Canonical
4 December 2012

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

Desktop News

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or Google Android device ...

Canonical
21 November 2012

Six near-future scenarios

Cloud and server Article

Enterprise cloud computing might be uncertain. But if you want to start making it happen then you’ve come to the right place. This new, free ebook will show you why Ubuntu is the ideal platform for the enterprise cloud. There are six major scenarios that will start to impact your business soon.Here are the six ...

Kyle MacDonald
14 November 2012

Cloud computing: private, public or both?

Cloud and server News

This article was published in Virtual Strategy magazine earlier this month. We think you’ll like it, so here it is. “A growing number of organisations worldwide are seeing the value of cloud computing as a way of increasing IT flexibility and lowering in-house infrastructure costs. However, achieving the right blend of security, control a ...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A

Cloud and server Article

What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in the Ubuntu Cloud webinar) ANSWER The question is a serious one. Thousands of developers from around the world are involved in the creation of open source software, including Linux. ...

Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Do closed clouds slow down time to market?

Cloud and server News

Get close to the business. It is a maxim CIOs live by. It means understanding exactly what drives the organisation. In a downturn, everyone wants to cut costs, but in some businesses, this is not as important as other ambitions, such as accelerating product development. In the pharmaceuticals industry, for example, time to market for ...

Canonical
26 October 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu Server

Desktop White paper

What’s different about Ubuntu Server? Is it secure enough to use in my business? Will it work on my hardware? Whether you’ve already deployed Ubuntu in your business or are just starting to consider it, we know that you’re bound to have questions as have others before you. We have asked our customer-facing technical heads ...

Canonical
17 October 2012

Manage thousands of desktops, servers and cloud instances with Landscape

Cloud and server White paper

Landscape provides a single, easy-to-use, browser-based control panel, through which you can manage your machines from anywhere. With a fully scriptable API, you can integrate it with your current Linux management tools, extending their capabilities and giving you the power to do more with fewer resources. Most important of all however, i ...

Canonical
8 October 2012

Cloud glossary and definitions

Cloud and server Article

Cloud has created its own vocabulary, with new words and phrases to describe technologies, practices and concepts that had scarcely been imagined five or ten years ago. And while everyone can agree on the definition of some of them, others are still in flux and used in different ways by different vendors and groups. It’s ...

Canonical
26 September 2012

The business case: open source maturity

Cloud and server News

Like nearly all companies around the world, our business has benefited massively from open source technology. Samba has helped us allow Windows users upload and share their work on the company intranet. The intranet webservers themselves run on Apache, with a MySQL database supporting a sales team portal. These technologies are invaluable ...

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