49 posts by Mark Baker
Cloud and server
When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter
by Mark Baker on 2 August 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Juju GUI for continuous deployment / integration and cloud orchestration
by Mark Baker on 22 July 2013
Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother...
Ubuntu
Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical
by Mark Baker on 18 July 2013
We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud...
Ubuntu
OpenStack is 3
by Mark Baker on 17 July 2013
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...
Cloud and server
Create trusted compute pools in the cloud
by Mark Baker on 2 July 2013
Security is a big topic and concerns about security in the cloud is often cited by enterprises as a reason for not migrating workloads….featured-article...
Ubuntu
The Juju Charm Championship begins
by Mark Baker on 1 July 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack
by Mark Baker on 11 June 2013
“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...
Ubuntu
London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd
by Mark Baker on 13 May 2013
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...
Ubuntu
Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration
by Mark Baker on 10 December 2012
As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services. As we mentioned in...
Cloud and server
Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A
by Mark Baker on 12 November 2012
What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in...
Cloud and server
Do closed clouds slow down time to market?
by Mark Baker on 12 November 2012
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...