Canonical thrusts Ubuntu towards the cloud #Linuxcon | Linux Today

Canonical thrusts Ubuntu towards the cloud #Linuxcon

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2012

Speaking in a keynote address at the 2012 LinuxCon North America convention in San Diego, Canonical vice president of cloud Kyle MacDonald told attendees that the company sees itself performing particularly well in the scale-out server market.

He noted that social networking firms such as Instagram have favoured Ubuntu builds for their services. Canonical has also developed a number of developer tools aimed at helping to enable cloud computing platforms.

Web Webster

Web Webster

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