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Ellen Arnold
20 March 2015

DataStax to join Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical are excited to welcome DataStax to its 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 blueprint deployments and an easy way to...

Ellen Arnold
20 March 2015

Canonical
19 March 2015

Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

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Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like...

Canonical
19 March 2015

Canonical
16 March 2015

MWC 2015: a week to remember

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As the lights go down on Mobile World Congress 2015, we’ve taken a bit of time to reflect on what has become one of our favourite events in the conference calender. And what a week it was! Congress touched every team within Canoncial and so here’s a bit of insight into what we did there:

Canonical
16 March 2015

Exploring Juju with Project Calico

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Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to each other, and then hope you didn’t make a typo or other form of error that leads to a tricky-to-debug misbehaviour in OpenStack. For

Canonical
16 March 2015

Internet of Things: 2lemetry

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Ubuntu Core allows you to easily and securely deploy an app to any number of devices. But all those devices need a place to connect to in order to transmit and receive data. 2lemetry is the perfect fit, providing a secure, scalable cloud platform for all of your devices. Using the combination of Ubuntu and

Canonical
16 March 2015

Canonical
13 March 2015

Codership joins growing OpenStack Interoperability Lab community

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Canonical is pleased to welcome Codership, creator of database clustering technology, Galera, to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Codership provides an essential building block for high availability databases in an OpenStack cloud environment. OpenStack provides a variety of excellent technology choices...

Canonical
13 March 2015

Canonical
11 March 2015

NFV and SDN on OpenStack for network operators

White paper Cloud and server

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are two of the hottest infrastructure technologies around, particularly for telecoms and network operators wanting to map their services in a more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective way. One of the biggest areas of interest for operators...

Canonical
11 March 2015

How to face the challenges of becoming a cloud operator

White paper Cloud and server

In a shifting market, the traditional revenues of telcos and service providers are under threat. Voice revenues are at an all-time low, and high wireless data costs are negatively impacting margins. As an additional challenge, many enterprises are moving low-value workloads and applications to public clouds such as...

Canonical
11 March 2015

How Ubuntu OpenStack makes the cloud work for telcos and SPs

White paper Cloud and server

Telcos and Service Providers expect near 100% uptime and the flexibility to scale their infrastructure up and down on-demand. This requires a proven cloud platform that minimises time-to-revenue and ensures predictable costs. Here’s why you should consider Ubuntu OpenStack for your next cloud project: Up to 75% of...

Canonical
11 March 2015

Make IT rain: public cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

White paper Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack is the most trusted platform on which to build a public cloud. One of the best things about it is the ease of moving from a proof of concept or small lab-based deployment to a large, scalable, production one. In this brochure, we discuss some basics about running Ubuntu OpenStack for public clouds,

Canonical
11 March 2015

Architecting OpenStack for enterprise reality

White paper Cloud and server

With OpenStack becoming more and more popular as a cloud-building technology for enterprises, companies are asking themselves several important questions. How viable is OpenStack as an enterprise platform? Is it possible (and feasible) to integrate it with existing virtualisation infrastructure, e.g. vSphere from...

Canonical
11 March 2015

Building a private cloud? Taking the leap

White paper Cloud and server

In this whitepaper, you will read about moving your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud from the proof-of-concept stage to a production environment. It covers technical and organisational aspects, and gives you some best practices on running your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud in production and making it future-proof. Download eBook

Canonical
11 March 2015

A reference architecture for implementing OpenStack on VMware vSphere

White paper Cloud and server

This technical whitepaper, a collaboration between Canonical and VMware, proposes a reference architecture for running OpenStack on VMware vSphere. It draws on experience both companies have in joint customer engagements, and lists some best practices and recommendations for getting the most out of existing enterprise...

Canonical
11 March 2015

Canonical
10 March 2015

Microsoft & Canonical demonstrate first fully automated OCP Deployment

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Interesting news on the Open Compute Project (OCP) front this week as we extend our partnership with Microsoft to demonstrate the value of our Metal-as-a-Server (MAAS) deployment solution within an OCP environment. At this week’s OCP Summit, taking place in San Jose today and tomorrow (10th and 11th March), we will...

Canonical
10 March 2015

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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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