Blog posts written by Canonical

Canonical
13 October 2014

BootStack FAQs

Article Cloud and server

How do I get started with an on-premise OpenStack? Which hosting companies can I use? What tools do you use to build and manage my BootStack cloud? What do I get? What does managed mean? What does it include? How does the transfer option work? Is there a minimum commitment? What about scalability? Can I

Canonical
13 October 2014

Canonical
10 October 2014

Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today

News Desktop

Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Chrome is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. Netflix subscribers who already use Ubuntu can now watch simply by installing the Chrome browser....

Canonical
10 October 2014

Canonical
9 October 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, which is why deploying OpenStack with Ubuntu is the best way to ensure a straightforward implementation. Ubuntu OpenStack contains all the current integrated OpenStack projects and some additional...

Canonical
9 October 2014

Canonical
3 October 2014

The Ubuntu OpenStack Training Programme

Article Cloud and server

More training options have been a long-standing request by our customers. Following the on-site, 2-week course we offer as part of our consulting and support portfolio, and Jumpstart Training which includes a 2-day course by Canonical engineers on an Orange Box and a loan of the box for two weeks, we are now proud to

Canonical
3 October 2014

Canonical
26 September 2014

Juju Machine View: more control at your fingertips

Article Cloud and server

The Juju UI Engineering team has been hard at work on a whole new way to visualise your Juju deployments. Juju provides a unique perspective on your workloads as it focuses on the services that perform the work and less on the hardware details as that’s malleable and transient from deployment to deployment and cloud

Canonical
26 September 2014

Canonical
11 September 2014

Canonical and Ubuntu at dConstruct

Notes Ubuntu

Brighton is not just a lovely seaside town, mostly known for being overcrowded in Summer by Londoners in search for a bit of escapism, but also the home of a thriving community of designers, makers and entrepreneurs. Some of these people run dConstruct, a gathering where creative minds of all sorts converge every year to

Canonical
11 September 2014

Canonical
2 September 2014

Meeting evolving IT needs at the University of Nantes, France

Case study Desktop

Challenge Universities have diverse computing needs. There are full-time students, part-time students, teaching staff, technical staff and administrators to consider – all with differing levels of experience and in some cases, long-held technology preferences. Identifying a desktop platform that everyone can accept is...

Canonical
2 September 2014

Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit

Canonical
2 September 2014

Canonical
1 September 2014

BootStack – taking away the pain of cloud management

Article Cloud and server

BootStack (short for: build, operate, and optionally transfer) is the new offering from Canonical to round up its cloud portfolio. Utilising their experience in working with some of the world’s leading telcos and enterprises to build OpenStack clouds, Canonical experts will design and build your OpenStack cloud in...

Canonical
1 September 2014

Canonical
29 August 2014

Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF

Article Desktop

We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in the Digital Networks and Computing category, which recognises organisations involved in computer hardware, software and networks, as well as their applications for...

Canonical
29 August 2014

Canonical
21 August 2014

Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air

News Cloud and server

London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an enterprise-grade cloud platform offering customers performance, reliability, and security for their cloud infrastructures. The relationship brings optimised and fully supported...

Canonical
21 August 2014

Canonical
20 August 2014

Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey

Article Cloud and server

“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool for the first time. The incredible speed and smoothness with which Juju deploys and manages highly complex cloud applications is unrivalled and a well-known fact to...

Canonical
20 August 2014

Canonical
18 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers

Article Cloud and server

As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability, almost 100% uptime, and the ability to scale infrastructure and services up and down quickly and easily.

Canonical
18 August 2014

Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical works with 7 of the world’s largest Telcos to roll out innovative cloud services for internal and external customers. In the past year, the portfolio of products and...

Canonical
18 August 2014