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Canonical
10 June 2015

Objectif Libre joins the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that Objectif Libre, the company behind CloudKitty, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at...

Canonical
10 June 2015


Canonical
9 June 2015

teuto.net uses Ubuntu to bring IBM POWER8 to thepublic cloud

Case study Cloud and server

The German IT company teuto.net specializes in providing linux, hosting, cloud and web development services. In 2014, teuto.net created the brand “teutoStack“ for offering a wide range of services for customers interested in OpenStack cloud technology. In addition to consulting, training, operating and support services...

Canonical
9 June 2015


Canonical
8 June 2015

Expeto joins the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that Expeto has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the click of a button. Juju makes it easy...

Canonical
8 June 2015


Jorge O. Castro
3 June 2015

New features in Juju 1.23

Article Cloud and server

A little over a month ago Juju 1.23 hit the prime time and brought with it a flurry of bug fixes and new features. Below are a highlight of the exciting new things Juju can do as of 1.23, or feel free to dig into the release notes for all the details. Support for Google

Jorge O. Castro
3 June 2015


Canonical
3 June 2015

Cisco and Canonical Collaborate on Policy-Based OpenStack Clouds

News Cloud and server

Canonical is pleased that Cisco, developer of the Application Centric Infrastructure is joining the Ubuntu Cloud OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). Cisco implements application policy as part of OpenStack Group Based Policy (GBP) and the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) – delivering...

Canonical
3 June 2015


Udi Nachmany
3 June 2015

Juju Support for Google Cloud Platform

Article Cloud and server

As you may have noticed in our release notes, the recent release of a stable 1.23.2 Juju core (and its 1.23.3 follow-on) is packed with goodies such as support for systemd (and Vivid), improved proxy support for restrictive networks, new charm actions, as well as a first run at Juju service leader elections – and

Udi Nachmany
3 June 2015


Canonical
3 June 2015

So You Want to Write a Snappy App?

Article Cloud and server

Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of IoT related apps. If you are like me and have a Beagle Bone and a Raspberry Pi 2 and several old netbooks and

Canonical
3 June 2015


Tom Callway
29 May 2015

Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs

White paper Cloud and server

OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as carrier Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions. Canonical and Juniper’s technology alliance partnership make it easy to choose products in building open cloud...

Tom Callway
29 May 2015


Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

Article Cloud and server

In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to various people involved in the LXD project, I have decided to split this part of nova-compute-lxd into its own project called pylxd. Pylxd is a

Canonical
27 May 2015


Canonical
21 May 2015

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

Article Cloud and server

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that it is partnering with Canonical to enable their customers to run KVM and Hyper-V environments side-by-side in the same managed cloud. Cloudbase Solutions believes...

Canonical
21 May 2015


Canonical
21 May 2015

StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

News Cloud and server

StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of solutions designed to make the cash flow profile of on-premise managed cloud solutions match those of the public cloud. These offerings include a number of...

Canonical
21 May 2015


Ellen Arnold
21 May 2015

Eurecom join the Charm Partner Programme

Article Cloud and server

Canonical are excited to announce that Eurecom, a graduate school and research centre in Communication Systems, is the newest member of the Charm Partner Programme. Eurecom will be working with Canonical to charm OpenAirInterface, an open­source platform allowing for experimentation in wireless systems, with a...

Ellen Arnold
21 May 2015


Ellen Arnold
19 May 2015

Charm Store now includes Galera Cluster

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Codership are excited to announce that the Galera Cluster charm is now available for use in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing, the charm store is your destination for cloud­based enterprise applications. Galera Cluster is a high availability solution to protect against unwanted or planned...

Ellen Arnold
19 May 2015


Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Article Cloud and server

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other...

Canonical
19 May 2015