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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

John Zannos
30 September 2014

Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre

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Hyperscale, scale out and cloud computing are the hot topics in the server space today. Driven by increasing Internet traffic, massive amounts of data and widespread adoption of Linux-based open source workloads, companies ranging from Paypal and Bloomberg to Facebook are taking a fresh look at their approach to data...

John Zannos
30 September 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

John Zannos
23 September 2014

Oracle and Canonical collaborate on support for Oracle Linux on Ubuntu

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Canonical and Oracle are collaborating to offer customers support for both Ubuntu and Oracle Linux as fully supported guests on one another’s respective OpenStack offerings. As part of this collaboration, Canonical will support Ubuntu as a guest OS on Oracle Linux OpenStack, and Oracle will support Oracle Linux as a...

John Zannos
23 September 2014

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Article Cloud and server

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers,...

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Canonical
2 September 2014

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

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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
21 August 2014

Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air

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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

John Dolen
14 August 2014

Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack

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Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA v2) for Big Data and OpenStack. Read this CVD to learn about setting up OpenStack on Ubuntu to...

John Dolen
14 August 2014

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

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IBM recently posted “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at...

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Canonical
12 August 2014

CPLANE NETWORKS joins OIL

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Our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) programme is currently testing and validating over 3,000 hardware and software configurations per month. We’re adding more and more partners to the list, and today we welcome CPLANE NETWORKS to OIL. CPLANE provides a scalable Software Defined Networking (SDN) product called...

Canonical
12 August 2014

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All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.