Christopher Tozzi

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Articles by Christopher Tozzi

RightScale Compute Conference: Cloud Computing's Present and Future

The RightScale Compute 2013 conference in San Francisco from April 23 through 26 will cover the latest cloud computing technologies, as well as the bigger picture for the cloud within the channel.

VMware Joins Open Source Software Institute

Within the virtualization world, VMware (NYSE: VMW) can hardly claim to be more friendly to open source than competing platforms such as KVM and Xen.

Canonical Enhancing JuJu Cloud Services Orchestration Tools

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is focused on JuJu, a solution for deploying cloud services. JuJu is already mature and useful, but Ubuntu developers envision expanding on it in major ways in 2013, as evidence from mailing archives and Canonical announcements.

What the Cloud Means for the Open-Source Desktop 2

We've all been told that the "cloud"--whatever exactly we believe that means--is the future, and the desktop is headed for the dustbin. What we hear less about is the potential of the cloud for reinvigorating and redefining desktop computing. Here's how that could happen, and why it should.

Zarafa CEO Brian Joseph On Open-Source, the Cloud, and the World

If the story of the last two decades was about large American software companies constructing near-monopolies through the clever combination of proprietary licenses and vendor lock-in, the trend going forward is the unraveling of those monopolies as open-source developers learn to leverage the cloud. I recently spoke with Brian Joseph, CEO of open-source groupware provider Zarafa, about this shift, among other things. Here's what he had to say.

Ubuntu: Really a Cloud Operating System? 2

We knew Ubuntu was "Linux for human beings." Aiming to catch the current cloud computing wave, Canonical has now also officially deemed Ubuntu as "the cloud OS." But what exactly does the claim mean to cloud services providers (CSPs) and potential Ubuntu channel partners?

Ubuntu Server and the Cloud: Notes from a Developer

If cloud computing is just hype, no one has told Ubuntu server developer Dustin Kirkland, who has fascinating visions for the ways in which upcoming releases of Ubuntu might fit into the cloud.

Ubuntu's Cloud-Init Promotes Customization in the Cloud 4

It's one thing to talk in vague terms about "the cloud," and another to write software that actually works with it. Thanks to Ubuntu's cloud-init package, coding for the cloud can be simple, practical and even straightforward. Here's a look at the technology in action, and where it fits into the larger cloud-computing ecosystem.