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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
2 August 2013

When it comes to scale, size doesn’t matter

Cloud and server Article

This is the first in a series of articles about the best ways to manage scale out workloads. Scale. We hear a lot about managing scale being one of the key challenges in a world where numbers can grow very large very fast. Whether it’s huge amounts of data being collected for analysis, websites that ...


Mark Baker
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment / integration and cloud orchestration

Ubuntu Server

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service design – conceptua ...


Mark Baker
18 July 2013

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical

Ubuntu Cloud

We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud Product Management from VMware where he led its Cloud Infrastructure Platform effort and has a solid understanding of customer needs as they continue to move to virtual and cloud infrastru ...


Mark Baker
17 July 2013

OpenStack is 3

Ubuntu Cloud

In April at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth quipped “My OpenStack, how you’ve grown” as a reference to the thousands of people in the room. OpenStack is indeed growing up and it seems incredible that this Friday, we celebrate OpenStacks’ 3rd Birthday. Incredible – it seems like only yesterday OpenStack was a twin ...


Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Create trusted compute pools in the cloud

Cloud and server White paper

Security is a big topic and concerns about security in the cloud is often cited by enterprises as a reason for not migrating workloads….featured-article a.button { display: none; } ...


Mark Baker
1 July 2013

The Juju Charm Championship begins

Ubuntu Server

Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the Juju Charm Championship, in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative with Juju charms. ...


Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth demonstrated that life is going to get much less ‘interesting’ for people running OpenStack and that ...


Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Ubuntu Article

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined ...


Mark Baker
10 December 2012

Juju GUI for visual cloud orchestration

Ubuntu Server

As clouds for IT infrastructure become commonplace, admins and devops need quick, easy ways of deploying and orchestrating cloud services.  As we mentioned in October, Ubuntu now has a GUI for Juju, the service orchestration tool for server and cloud. In this post we wanted to expand a bit more on how Juju makes it ...


Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Your questions answered: the best of our webinars Q&A

Cloud and server Article

What protection is available against my organisation infringing another company’s intellectual property when we use open source software? (Question covered in the Ubuntu Cloud webinar) ANSWER The question is a serious one. Thousands of developers from around the world are involved in the creation of open source software, including Linux. ...


Mark Baker
12 November 2012

Do closed clouds slow down time to market?

Cloud and server News

Get close to the business. It is a maxim CIOs live by. It means understanding exactly what drives the organisation. In a downturn, everyone wants to cut costs, but in some businesses, this is not as important as other ambitions, such as accelerating product development. In the pharmaceuticals industry, for example, time to market for ...