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Canonical
17 April 2014

What’s new in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS?

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Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, which goes live today, is the third Ubuntu LTS release designed for cloud. After more than four years, we finally see the cloud coming of age, with OpenStack at its heart. Ubuntu has for a long time been the platform of choice for running enterprise workloads such as web infrastructure. Today,

Canonical
17 April 2014

Canonical
15 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the platform for scale; delivers any workload on any substrate Telcos and cloud service providers trust Ubuntu for OpenStack and public cloud 14.04 Long Term Support release is Ubuntu’s third LTS cloud release London 15th April 2014: Canonical today announces Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be released on 17th...

Canonical
15 April 2014

Canonical
11 April 2014

OpenStack+VMware deployment stories: webinar Q&A

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Canonical and VMware recently ran a joint webinar in which we shared customer stories from OpenStack+vSphere deployment projects. The webinar was a huge success with over 600 attendees and lots of great audience interaction. If you’ve missed it, watch the on-demand version here. Unfortunately, we ran out of time before...

Canonical
11 April 2014

Canonical
9 April 2014

Adding hardware support to MAAS

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MAAS and power MAAS, or Metal as a Service, is a tool for treating physical servers similarly to cloud resources. It lets you take a pile of hardware and assign workloads to it without worrying about all the support infrastructure underneath. In effect, you can plug a bunch of systems into a network and have

Canonical
9 April 2014

Canonical
28 March 2014

New committee to make cloud services instantly safer

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A few months ago, Canonical started to work with a set of partners to address the challenges around single sign-on for new services within an organisation. We created a committee to develop a solution that would ensure service authentication could happen instantaneously, saving organisations often months in the roll out...

Canonical
28 March 2014

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Latest from the web team — March 2014

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Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu Resources: we’ve just launched a new version of the site Ubuntu.com: we’ve launched a localised Chinese homepage that highlights...

Inayaili de León Persson
27 March 2014

Canonical
18 March 2014

Customer stories from OpenStack+VMware projects

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Tuesday, 18th March — 15:00 GMT/10:00 EST In this webinar, Dave Russell, Head of Sales Engineering at Canonical, and Ramiro Salas, Global Technology Specialist for OpenStack at VMware, will walk you through some of our “war stories” from customer engagements getting both Ubuntu OpenStack and VMware infrastructure to...

Canonical
18 March 2014

Canonical
17 March 2014

Q&A on OpenStack + VMware

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We recently held a webinar on “Architecting OpenStack in your enterprise” together with Gigaom, which produced quite a lot of buzz. Our many attendees had a lot of questions which we weren’t able to answer due to time restrictions. We promised to follow up, so here is a list of these questions and answers. We

Canonical
17 March 2014

Juju bundles and Quickstart: create a cloud environment in seconds

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A few years ago, the cloud team at Canonical decided that the future of cloud computing lies not only in what clouds are built on, but what runs on it, and how quickly, securely, and efficiently those services can be managed.

Canonical
17 March 2014

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Canonical welcomes Joyent to its Certified Public Cloud Programme

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Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience, so today we announced a partnership with Joyent to bring optimised and fully supported Ubuntu server images to users of Joyent’s cloud platform. Ubuntu is the most popular guest OS in the cloud and combined with Joyent’s High Performance...

Mark Baker
20 February 2014

Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical/Ubuntu enables instant NFV

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Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona next week is arguably the biggest event in the Telco and Operator calendar attracting upwards of 72,000 visitors. It is renowned as the venue where the leading vendors launch new devices and Ubuntu may or may not have some announcements of its own in this area. Less

Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical
10 February 2014

Apache Syncope sponsor, Tirasa, shows instant IDM on Juju

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“If you want to quickly switch to the cloud, then you want to look at Juju.”, says Tirasa. Tirasa is the main sponsor behind the Apache Syncope project. Apache Syncope is an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in J2EE technology and released under Apache 2.0...

Canonical
10 February 2014

Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Ubuntu’s Juju wins Cloud Awards ‘Best Cloud Automation Solution’

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We’re thrilled to announce that, out of 200 total entries, our service orchestration tool, Juju, has been named the 2013-2014 Cloud Awards winner for Best Cloud Automation Solution – a category new to the awards this year. The Cloud Awards are in their third year and recognise excellence in cloud computing across the...

Mark Baker
28 January 2014

Canonical
17 January 2014

Instant eCommerce

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Christmas shopping habbits have changed recently. Most people just buy gifts online to avoid endless queues. A lot of small and medium companies are looking at entering the eCommerce space. However at the moment there are three choices: You choose a hosted solution with direct lock-in. You choose an expensive commercial...

Canonical
17 January 2014

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