Cloud and Server

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


Canonical
17 October 2012

Manage thousands of desktops, servers and cloud instances with Landscape

White paper Cloud and server

Landscape provides a single, easy-to-use, browser-based control panel, through which you can manage your machines from anywhere. With a fully scriptable API, you can integrate it with your current Linux management tools, extending their capabilities and giving you the power to do more with fewer resources. Most...

Canonical
17 October 2012


Canonical
8 October 2012

What is OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

OpenStack is big news. Canonical’s crack team of cloud experts explain why it’s going to change your business for good.

Canonical
8 October 2012


Canonical
8 October 2012

Cloud glossary and definitions

Article Cloud and server

Cloud has created its own vocabulary, with new words and phrases to describe technologies, practices and concepts that had scarcely been imagined five or ten years ago. And while everyone can agree on the definition of some of them, others are still in flux and used in different ways by different vendors and groups. It’s

Canonical
8 October 2012


Canonical
26 September 2012

The business case: open source maturity

News Cloud and server

Like nearly all companies around the world, our business has benefited massively from open source technology. Samba has helped us allow Windows users upload and share their work on the company intranet. The intranet webservers themselves run on Apache, with a MySQL database supporting a sales team portal. These...

Canonical
26 September 2012


Canonical
26 September 2012

Open cloud computing: mergers and aquisitions

News Cloud and server

Welcome to our new blog series. Over the next couple of months (at least) we’re going to take a look at the open cloud and what it means for businesses like yours. We believe there are lots of benefits to a genuine open cloud solution. And we’re going to start with a subject that always

Canonical
26 September 2012


nickbarcet
26 September 2012

Cloud computing primer

Article Cloud and server

Our ebook is about making the cloud as straight forward as possible. If you want to reap the benefits of the open cloud but don’t know exactly where to start then you’re in the right place. This could be your first step towards a new direction for your business.

nickbarcet
26 September 2012


Canonical
21 September 2012

Bancard streamlines PCI compliance with Canonical’s Landscape

Case study Cloud and server

Landscape centralises management of Ubuntu servers to increase efficiency and support compliance with financial industry regulations Summary NA Bancard provides fully managed, cost-effective payment processing services, enabling US businesses to accept non-cash payments in store, online, and through mobile channels....

Canonical
21 September 2012


Canonical
13 September 2012

Landscape update improves ROI and compliance for Ubuntu in the enterprise

News Cloud and server

New data suggests Landscape users can expect a return of more than 1,000% over five years Canonical today announces a significant update to Landscape, its enterprise-grade systems management tool for large deployments of Ubuntu desktops, servers and cloud instances. It also reveals the findings of new independent...

Canonical
13 September 2012


Canonical
6 September 2012

Capgemini deploys hybrid thin client solution with Ubuntu Advantage

Case study Cloud and server

Summary Capgemini’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions have helped some of the world’s largest, multinational corporations transform their business processes in the areas of finance and accounting, customer operations management, human resources, procurement, supply chain management, sustainability, and social...

Canonical
6 September 2012


Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012

Ubuntu Online Tour

Development Cloud and server

We realise that changing Operating System (OS) is a big thing for anyone thinking of testing something out. That becomes a huge barrier for people trying out Ubuntu for the first time and seeing if they like it. As a member of the web team I decided to take on the challenge as a cool

Anthony Dillon
9 August 2012


Canonical
4 May 2012

Creating the open cloud

White paper Cloud and server

Amid all the hype surrounding the cloud, there has been a growing need for open and proven components that enable any business to benefit from elastic computing. With public cloud services now widely available and OpenStack established as the de facto infrastructure platform, these components are now ready to deploy....

Canonical
4 May 2012


Canonical
16 April 2012

Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)

White paper Cloud and server

Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and authorisation (Basic Auth, OAuth, and OpenID, to give a few examples). Simply put, it allows clients to obtain security tokens to access different cloud services. Keystone...

Canonical
16 April 2012


Canonical
13 April 2012

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds

Article Cloud and server

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack Clouds Canonical today released for beta testing a new cloud proxy, providing APIs for OpenStack that are also common to Amazon’s EC2 and AWS public cloud services. The proxy, called “Any Web Service Over Me” (AWSOME), simplifies the deployment of hybrid cloud workloads...

Canonical
13 April 2012


Canonical
4 April 2012

“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta

News Cloud and server

MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the physical server provisioning process. MAAS is designed for horizontally scaled environments such as big data workloads and internal clouds, but works just as well for...

Canonical
4 April 2012