So, on November 5th at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Ubuntu announced the creation of "Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab" (OIL) with such powerhouse partners as Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, ...

The OpenStack PaaS market is heating up, with Ubuntu teaming up with Pivotal on a version of Cloud Foundry for OpenStack. Canonical’s founder Mark Shuttleworth made the announcement today in Hong Kong ...

Canonical has launched its sixth long term support (LTS) release of its Linux distribution Ubuntu. Jane Silber, Canonical’s CEO, described the arrival of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as “exciting and special” ...

Ubuntu dominates the cloud. According to TheCloudMarket.com, which measures operating system adoption on AWS, Ubuntu holds 54% market share in terms of guest images on the dominant IaaS platform.

Nexenta and Canonical have announced a strategic alliance to integrate Nexenta’s software-defined storage (SDS) with Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack platform. The companies agreed to work together at ...

With a major migration to OpenStack and other cloud management frameworks starting to get under way in earnest, it’s now once again almost anybody’s ball game in terms of who winds up dominating the ...

No matter if users had dozens, or thousands, of CPU cores in their cloud, most preferrred Ubuntu. It was followed by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone CentOS, which is now part of the Red Hat ...

The Ubuntu Linux project will use OpenStack as the foundation for its cloud service. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, a gathering for the open-source project now ...

Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu, 15.04 Vivid Vervet, will be available for download on Thursday. This release introduces a couple of new features for desktop users, but most ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

Canonical may still be mostly known for its Ubuntu Linux distribution, but the company now also offers a number of (paid) services for enterprises, often with a focus on the OpenStack platform. At the ...

The latest version of Canonical's Linux distribution features a streamlined OpenStack installer, along with the LXD hypervisor and telco-strength networking If there’s one Linux distribution that has ...