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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
31 July 2014

Voting begins for OpenStack Summit sessions in Paris

Cloud and server Article

Voting is now open for sessions to be run at the OpenStack ‘Kilo’ Summit in Paris in November. There have been hundreds of talk submissions, evidence if ever it were needed that the OpenStack ecosystem continues to grow apace. Canonical has hundreds of people working on OpenStack and our ecosystem of partners engaged with us ...


Mark Baker
22 July 2014

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

Cloud and server Article

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in production clouds. Enterprises are skeptical of OpenStack’s ability to deliver a solid platform that is able to meet the availability, security and manageability demands of the business. Ther ...


Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Cloud and server Article

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision on-demand computing. A ...


Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

Cloud and server Article

Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s IceHouse, talking ab ...


Mark Baker
17 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu Server

Today is a big day for Ubuntu and a big day for cloud computing: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is released. Everyone involved with Ubuntu can’t help but be impressed and stirred about the significance of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. We are impressed because Ubuntu is gaining extensive traction outside of the tech luminaries such as Netflix, Snapchat ...


Mark Baker
27 March 2014

An insight into supporting OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

It is pretty well known that most of the OpenStack clouds running in production today are based on Ubuntu. Companies like Comcast, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, Bloomberg and HP all trust Ubuntu Server as the right platform to run OpenStack. A fair proportion of the Ubuntu OpenStack users out there also engage Canonical to provide them ...


Mark Baker
20 February 2014

When it comes to cloud and scale out, Ubuntu has the winning model

Ubuntu open source

Two of the most frequently asked questions about Ubuntu and Canonical are: * So, just how do you make money when Ubuntu is free? and * Ubuntu is great for developers, but is it really suitable for ‘enterprise use’? We’re trying to do things differently, so we’re not surprised by these questions. What many people ...


Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Canonical welcomes Joyent to its Certified Public Cloud Programme

Cloud and server News

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience, so today we announced a partnership with Joyent to bring optimised and fully supported Ubuntu server images to users of Joyent’s cloud platform. Ubuntu is the most popular guest OS in the cloud and combined with Joyent’s High Performance platform developers ...


Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

Cloud and server News

We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best Cloud Automation Solution – a category new to the awards this year. The Cloud Awards are in their third year and recognise excellence in cloud computing across the globe. Juju ...


Mark Baker
9 January 2014

Ubuntu: Web OS of the year…. ….for the 3rd year in a row

Ubuntu Server

It is with great pride that we saw Ubuntu winning W3tech’s Operating System of the year award. For those of us that work on Ubuntu, increased adoption is one of the most satisfying results of our work and is the best measure of the if we are doing the right thing or not. What is ...


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. ...