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Canonical
15 April 2015

PLUMgrid Joins Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab

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Partnership will deliver validated interoperability with simpler and automated deployment for OpenStack clouds SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, April 15, 2015 — PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack® clouds, has become an Ubuntu Cloud partner and a part of the Canonical OpenStack...

Canonical
15 April 2015


Canonical
14 April 2015

Zabbix charms now available

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Zabbix is the latest graduate of the Charm Partner Programme, and we are excited to welcome their charms into the Juju Charms collection. Zabbix is is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other...

Canonical
14 April 2015


Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

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Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef...

Canonical
14 April 2015


Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015

MAAS 1.9 network layouts for the Landscape Autopilot

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Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   The Ubuntu OpenStack Autopilot deploys an OpenStack cloud using Juju, MAAS and...

Andreas Hasenack
10 April 2015


Canonical
9 April 2015

FortyCloud joins Canonical’s growing Charm Partner Programme

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FortyCloud,  a pioneer in network Security ­as ­a ­Service for the cloud, is the most recent member to join Canonical’s growing charm ecosystem. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and...

Canonical
9 April 2015


Canonical
8 April 2015

Talligent has been Charmed!

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John Meadows, VP of Sales and Business Development at Talligent, writes about their motivations and experiences charming OpenBook. Let me start with a brief explanation of why we decided to Charm our application. Canonical is an important player in the Openstack cloud space with a leading distribution of Openstack....

Canonical
8 April 2015


Ellen Arnold
7 April 2015

AppScale charm now available

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Canonical is excited to announce that  AppScale is now available in the Juju charm store.  With 300 charms and growing, the Juju charm store is the destination for cloud-based enterprise applications. AppScale is an open source PaaS that leverages the Google App Engine APIs. It allows devs to quickly focus on the...

Ellen Arnold
7 April 2015


Canonical
2 April 2015

Ubuntu, ARM and the public cloud

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Ubuntu has a long history of interest and investment in supporting ARM-based hardware. Since our 10.04 release, Ubuntu has been fully compatible with the ARMv7 architecture, and in 2014 we were the first commercial Linux-based operating system to announce full support for the newly enabled 64-bit ARMv8 architecture....

Canonical
2 April 2015


Ellen Arnold
30 March 2015

DataArt join Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that DataArt, a technology consulting firm,  has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju; enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share...

Ellen Arnold
30 March 2015


Canonical
30 March 2015

Coho Data partners with Canonical for OpenStack Interoperability

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Canonical is pleased to welcome Coho Data, developer of the first flash-tuned scale-out storage architecture for private clouds, as an Ubuntu Cloud partner and to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Coho provides web-scale storage for the cloud generation; delivering unparalleled performance and simplified...

Canonical
30 March 2015


Canonical
27 March 2015

Codership further extends relationship with Canonical

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Hot on the heels of Codership’s entry to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL), Canonical is excited to welcome Codership, creator of database clustering technology Galera, to our Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration...

Canonical
27 March 2015


Canonical
26 March 2015

Ericsson and Canonical partner to drive cloud innovation

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Three-year partnership to support industry with proven cloud technology and drive cloud innovation Innovation around OPNFV (NFV/VNF) and IT cloud Ericsson to deploy Ubuntu Server OS as Host OS for Cloud offering Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced a three year partnership with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), a...

Canonical
26 March 2015


Canonical
24 March 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: March 2015 Newsletter

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Spring is finally here and we have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about. We also have some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. So dive in and enjoy!

Canonical
24 March 2015


Canonical
20 March 2015

Installing LXD and the command line tool

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Ubuntu desktop and Ubuntu server As LXD evolves quite rapidly, we recommend Ubuntu users use our PPA: add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-lxc/lxd-stable apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get install lxd The package creates a new “lxd” group which contains all users allowed to talk to lxd over the local unix socket. All...

Canonical
20 March 2015