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Mark Baker

Mark Baker

49 posts

Cloud Product Manager

Cloud Product Manager focused on Ubuntu OpenStack. Previously at MySQL and Red Hat. Likes motorcycles and meeting people who do interesting stuff with Ubuntu and OpenStack

Mark Baker
8 January 2014

2013: a year of innovation, interoperability and convergence

Cloud and server Article

Following our post about the next decade of innovation, we thought now would be a good time to look back at 2013, a year that saw huge strides toward two of our biggest goals: cloud interoperability and OS convergence. First and foremost, creating the best freely available software continued to be a primary goal over ...

Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack. ...

Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The really interesting ...

Mark Baker
17 October 2013

The open cloud future is here: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana

Cloud and server News

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us ...

Mark Baker
10 October 2013

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with VMWare vSphere integration, faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud en ...

Mark Baker
3 October 2013

OpenStack India Day and APAC Momentum

Cloud and server Article

Recently I had the privilege of presenting at OpenStack India Day in Bangalore. I was in great company, alongside speakers from SwiftStack, HP, the OpenStack Foundation and other key contributors to OpenStack. The conversations generated at the sold-out event covered a broad range of both technical and industry topics, but the overall tak ...

Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

Ubuntu Server

The telco business has long prided itself on providing dependable services all day every day. Today, dial tones generally survive earthquakes, hurricanes, wars and power cuts and that is testimony to the service quality telcos provide. This high level of service quality runs through a telco’s DNA, which gives their applications the renown ...

Mark Baker
18 September 2013

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

Ubuntu Cloud

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 from tomorrow, September 18th, Ubuntu users can use Juju with its intuitive GUI to design and deploy sophisticated application infrastructure instantly into Windows ...

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 ...

Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Ubuntu the challenger?

Ubuntu Ubuntu Advantage

When it comes to using Linux on an enterprise server, Ubuntu is generally seen as the new challenger in a market dominated by established vendors specifically targeting enterprises. However, we are seeing signs that this is changing. The W3Techs data showing Ubuntu’s continued growth as a platform for online scale-out infrastructure is be ...

Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Cloud gets a boost with VMware vCHS

Ubuntu Server

On Monday August 26th, VMware announced the general availability of their vCloud Hybrid Service. This service, initially opened back in May to a restricted set of early adopters provides VMware customers with a means of being able to easily bring their workloads out of their own datacentres and into to the cloud. For many customers ...

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