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April 23, 2015
by sjvn01
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What does HP think it’s doing?

Winston Churchill once said of Russia, “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Now, I don’t deal with international politics. I just write about technology. But when I’ve looked at HP lately I’ve been left thinking of its strategy as, well, “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”

What prompted this thought was HP’s recent public cloud dance. First, it seemed that HP, as far as The New York Times and anyone else who followed up on the story could tell, was going to walk away from the public cloud.

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April 21, 2015
by sjvn01
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Ubuntu 15.04 container-friendly Linux for cloud and servers arrives soon

Don’t look now but Ubuntu has become the Linux for clouds. On the AmazonElastic Compute Cloud (EC2), for example, Ubuntu is the most popular operating system by an almost two to one margin. 64 percent of production OpenStack users have also chosen Ubuntu to stay on top. Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is adding even more cloud and container functionality to the next version, Ubuntu 15.04.

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