Nicolas Barcet Free zone of nijaba

According to the statistics page on the Cloud Market, which claims to be "the most complete catalog of Amazon EC2 images", images using Ubuntu as the base platform have the largest share in their catalog.

My colleague Thierry Carrez just posted a blog this weekend discussing the new autoregistration features of the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud that are coming up in Ubuntu 10.04LTS Server Edition.

Je suis invité aujourd'hui à l'Ubuntu Party de Toulouse ou je viens de présenter deux conférences.  Comme à Paris la semaine dernière, le public est très nombreux à avoir répondu à l'appel de Toulibre et Ubuntu-fr, cela fait vraiment plaisir.

Comme promis aux auditeurs de mes présentations, voici les transparents que j'ai utilisés :

Oxyradio m'a interviewé pendant l'Ubuntu Party qui a eu lieu à Paris le week-end dernier et qui a accueilli 5000 visiteurs:

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of future Ubuntu Server Editions.  This is the second edition of this initiative which was first introduced in 2008. It has now been extended to include more cloud related questions.

Some people may say that I am a statistics junky... Well that's certainly true! But what do you want, being a product manager for a product that does not require ANY form of user registration, you have a tendancy to cling to any piece of data you may find that shows that you are not working in vain. Indeed, and to the opposite of most, if not all, of our competitors, we have absolutely no way to determine what is our install base.  We don't control our mirors, we don't have any ping back home mechanisms, and we are not considering adding any.  So, here I am, collecting as much information I can from outside sources...

Well, october was not too bad in that sense:

Intelli'N TV m'a posé quelques questions pendant l'OWF.  Je bafouille un peu mais j'essaie de répondre ;)

Dear Blog,

I am really sorry, I've been unfaithful. I have been seing another blog lately. Please don't be mad...

I have accepted to write a monthly blog on WorksWithU.  A couple entries already made:

In my last blog, I tried to explain what is Canonical's strategy regarding cloud computing.  A few people (they'll recognize themselves) got back to me asking why they would use a private cloud.  They found the idea really "cool", but could not see how they could use it.

As with all new technologies, there is always a very big chance that there will be a disconnect between what the people putting some tool together think they are addressing and what the "real" people end up doing with it. Chances are  that what I describe below is not what people will really end up using it for, but I have none the less decided to start a series of blog posts where I'll try to describe quickly some of the possible scenarios that I think makes a private cloud useful. I'll start today with the concept of self service IT.

The past few weeks have been pretty active in terms of people talking about Ubuntu Server Edition and more particularly about the Entreprise Cloud.  Here is a loose list of what I have noted: