When announcing last month that Canonical will cease development of the Unity 8 user interface for both mobile and desktop platforms, along with the company’s convergence vision, Mark Shuttleworth said that Ubuntu would grow considerably on the on the cloud and IoT (Internet of Things) fronts. And, today, they are announcing a partnership with NetApp. NetApp is a multinational storage and data management company, which recently joined Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program to build and deliver Open Cloud Solutions for the enterprise world, based on their NetApp data management and storage flash solutions integrated with Ubuntu OpenStack. These promise to help organizations build both hybrid and private clouds that are reliable, easily manageable, automated and scalable.