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Canonical Cloud Chatter: January 2016

by James Donner on 29 January 2016

Happy New Year! This January we’ve been busy with the release of Juju GUI 2.0 and MAAS 1.9 whilst getting ready for Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona in...

IBM LinuxONE gets its Juju

by John Dolen on 28 January 2016

This week, via press release, IBM continued its launch of the LinuxONE family of high performance Linux systems. In August, we joined IBM with their launch of...

Canonical teams with Oracle to drive enterprise cloud adoption

by Canonical on 27 January 2016

Collaboration to drive innovation and flexibility into enterprise cloud deployments Ubuntu Certified Images now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace Running...

Microsoft announces first Technical Preview of Azure Stack with Ubuntu

by John Zannos on 26 January 2016

The cloud is about choice, portability and scale. I believe it is important for every element of the cloud ecosystem to support and expand both. Ubuntu is a...

Telco Demos With Juju: Intro

by James Donner on 26 January 2016

In this blog series, we’ll be running through presentations featured during the Dangerous Demos session at TADsummit to show you how the next great...

Released: Juju GUI 2.0

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 25 January 2016

We are really happy to announce availability of the new and shiny beta version of Juju GUI 2.0 with completely redesigned and rewritten user interface and...

Introduction: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

by Canonical on 21 January 2016

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju...

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

by Maarten Ectors on 20 January 2016

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and...

MAAS 1.9: Taking bare-metal beyond “minimal provisioning”

by Christian Reis on 20 January 2016

Complex node configuration now fully supported, including NIC bonding, tagged VLANs, bcache, LVM, software RAID devices and more One of the (only somewhat...

Data Driven Analysis: /tmp on tmpfs

by Dustin Kirkland on 20 January 2016

tl;drPut /tmp on tmpfs and you’ll improve your Linux system’s I/O, reduce your carbon foot print and electricity usage, stretch the battery life of your...

Ubuntu is coming to a city near you

by Marcin Kierdelewicz on 15 January 2016

Happy New Year! I’ve been busy planning our first ever Ubuntu Day. Ubuntu Day is a local event organised with our partners to support awareness and adoption...