Canonical & Ubuntu
About Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a community developed and supported project. Since its launch in October 2004, Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world.
Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem.
About Canonical Ltd
Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is a global organisation headquartered in Europe committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities.
Canonical staff and software have deep roots in the open source community and a proven track record of success in the commercial software industry. Team members include leaders from the Gnome, Linux, Debian and Bazaar open source projects, helping Canonical to stay at the forefront of the rapidly changing open source software world.
World-class 24x7 commercial support for Ubuntu is delivered through the Canonical Global Support Team and its worldwide network of partners.
In the UK, Skills Matter works with Canonical to provide Ubuntu training to our developer community.
Canonical currently sponsors the development of a number of important technology products. See sponsored projects for further details.
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Reading the MAGS: Understanding the Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce platforms
Featuring Robert Schneider
Selecting a platform for infrastructure and/or application development can be daunting: there are many choices, and each vendor has taken a different approach to solving challenges such as elasticity, computation, storage, reliability, and security. To make matters even more confusing, these...
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OpenSplice DDS: The High Performance Messaging for the Cloud
Featuring Angelo Corsaro
When firms are considering deploying high performance distributed applications, such as trading, scientific computing on the cloud, they will need to provide for the required level of scalability, latency and throughput, whilst ensuring the technologies to achieve this can be easily accessed from...
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Quick and Dirty Parallel Processing on the Cloud
Featuring Daniel Sikar
Quick and dirty parallel processing on the cloud. Daniel Sikar will demonstrate Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon EC2 and S3.
tags: #cloudx, Hadoop MapReduce, Hadoop MapReduce on Amazon, Amazon EC2, S3, EC2 and S3
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Situation normal everything must change
Featuring Simon Wardley
In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends. This sea of concepts are simply the evolution of our industry from a product to a service based economy. We will examine the evolution of technology and why cloud is happening now, as well as the...
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Looking at the clouds through dirty Windows
Featuring Eric Nelson
Many developers assume that the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform for Cloud Computing is only relevant if you develop solutions using Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. The reality is somewhat different. In this talk we will take a lap around the services offered by the Azure PaaS and...
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Use cases for cloud messaging
Featuring Alexis Richardson
In this talk, Alexis presented use cases for cloud messaging. What is messaging and why it is useful for cloud computing? This talk will answer these questions by way of illustrating use cases from RabbitMQ customers.
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Betting on Data Grids
Featuring Dave Felcey
Dave Felcey from Oracle gave an overview of Oracle Coherence and related technologies, like JRockit Real-Time JVM and discussed how they are being used to address some of the challenges their gaming customers face.
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