Tag: canonical

  • Dell Unveils Cloud Solutions (Yippee!)

    Today is the big day.  The one we’ve been working towards for a long time.  As a part of Dell’s quarterly launch “Solutions for the Virtual Era,” we are announcing the introduction of: Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications, our first Revolutionary cloud solution.  Partnering with enterprise-class cloud pioneer Joyent, we are offering a turnkey…

  • Ubuntu founder stops by Round Rock

    My favorite cosmonaut-coder Mark Shuttleworth stopped by our offices this morning for a visit.  Mark is the founder of both the Linux distribution Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical.   Mark and I sat down in the lobby and caught up.  Here is a short interview we recorded. Some of the topics Mark tackles: Where Canonical…

  • Mark Shuttleworth on the Cloud, Ubuntu on Dell and more

    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States.  Yesterday he was quite busy,  taking the stage at both the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as well as at  LinuxCon up in Portland Oregon. Today he popped…

  • RightScale part 1: Mickos joins and control moves up the stack

    Yesterday I attended a webinar that RightScale put on entitled: How to Build Scalable Websites in the Cloud.  It was basically a welcome to RightScale, welcome to the cloud presentation but overall interesting and credible. The presenters were their CEO, their head of marketing and a mini team of techies.  Below is part one of…

  • Talking to Canonical’s KVM Kid — Dustin Kirkland

    At Austin Cloud Camp on Saturday I ran into Ubuntu linux developer and Canonical employee, Dustin Kirkland.  Dustin is on the server developer team at Canonical and, as he explains it, focuses on various aspects of virtualization, the plumbing layer below cloud computing.  I grabbed Dustin for a few minutes and chatted with him about…

  • Pics and Prose from Cloud Camp Austin ’09

    This past Saturday, Cloud Camp Austin was held down on the UT campus.  There was a very healthy turnout and a lot of great discussions were generated. Sequence of Events After opening salutations, camp got underway with a series of six five-minute lightening talks delivered by the camp’s gold sponsors. The Main Event From there,…