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Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality

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At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs...

Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

John Zannos
3 June 2014

IBM App Throwdown – Canonical’s Juju selected as top five finalist

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IBM is holding a contest for developing solutions for its new Power8 server architecture. We’re thrilled that our service orchestration tool, Juju, ported to IBM’s Power8 CPU has been selected as one of the top five finalists. You can show your support and vote for Juju by tweeting anything that includes “@ubuntucloud...

John Zannos
3 June 2014

Canonical
3 June 2014

Canonical announces expanded Ubuntu support for the Cavium workload

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Optimisation for deployment and provisioning cloud based workloads at scale London and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Canonical today announced expanded support for the ThunderX SoC family from Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for...

Canonical
3 June 2014

Canonical
2 June 2014

Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.

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Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or...

Canonical
2 June 2014

Canonical
29 May 2014

Ubuntu’s support model fosters a strong ecosystem for OpenStack

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Ubuntu was the first platform to embrace OpenStack, and OpenStack development largely happens on Ubuntu. As the reference platform for OpenStack, the majority of production deployments of OpenStack are on Ubuntu. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, provides large-scale commercial users with both professional services...

Canonical
29 May 2014

Canonical joins the Cloud Foundry Foundation

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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pleased to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry has been a PaaS platform of choice for developers and Ubuntu has been all about developers since its inception. Even before the foundation had been announced Canonical was working with Pivotal to make Cloud Foundry best...

Canonical
29 May 2014

Canonical
21 May 2014

Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS

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This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with MAAS, Juju and Landscape This documentation has been created to describe best practice in deploying a production grade installation of OpenStack using current...

Canonical
21 May 2014

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

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We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge...

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Canonical
14 May 2014

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

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China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will...

Canonical
14 May 2014

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit

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Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Jumpstart Training with the Orange Box

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Two full days of technical training, covering Ubuntu, MAAS, Juju, Landscape, and OpenStack. We are delighted to introduce a new delivery mechanism for Jumpstarts, leveraging the innovative Orange Box! We’ll deliver an Orange Box to your office, and work with you for two days, learning the ins and outs of Ubuntu, MAAS,...

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

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Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision...

Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

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Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s...

Mark Baker
12 May 2014

John Zannos
28 April 2014

Ubuntu scale out and cloud partner ecosystem expands with IBM POWER8

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Public and private cloud adoption has continued to grow, and Canonical has been at the forefront, focusing on scale out and cloud architectures. We have built Ubuntu, Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju to be optimised for cloud and scale out. We recognise that the right ecosystem of hardware and ISVs partners needs to be in place

John Zannos
28 April 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.

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