Blog posts tagged
"data center"

19 posts

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation

Article Cloud and server

Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility.

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs

Article Cloud and server

To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable.  In other words, commoditized.

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Tytus Kurek
26 May 2025

OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application. By...

Tytus Kurek
26 May 2025

Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms 

Article Canonical announcements

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is  working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU...

Canonical
25 March 2025

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

Article AI

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Rhys Knipe
12 June 2024

Space pioneers: Lonestar gears up to create a data centre on the Moon

Article Canonical announcements

Why establish a data centre on the Moon? Find out in our blog.

Rhys Knipe
12 June 2024

Canonical
11 April 2024

Ventana and Canonical collaborate on enabling enterprise data center, high-performance and AI computing on RISC-V

Article Silicon

This blog is co-authored by Gordan Markuš, Canonical and Kumar Sankaran, Ventana Micro Systems Unlocking the future of semiconductor innovation  RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is rapidly shaping the future of high-performance computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. The...

Canonical
11 April 2024

Miona Aleksic
29 November 2022

VMware to open source: what do you need to consider?

Article Cloud and server

Read on for some of the most important considerations when thinking about migrating from VMware to Ubuntu-based open-source infrastructure.

Miona Aleksic
29 November 2022

Philip Williams
10 November 2022

What is object storage?

Article Ceph

Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very...

Philip Williams
10 November 2022

Canonical
28 March 2022

Firmus Supercloud sets a new standard for sustainable cloud computing with Canonical’s open infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

March 29th, 2022—Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Firmus, the Australian cloud infrastructure provider that is revolutionising data centre technology, has built its ultra-efficient and sustainable public cloud on Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes. Data centres are responsible for a...

Canonical
28 March 2022

Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Cloud Adjacent Storage

Article Ceph

What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage?...

Philip Williams
16 March 2022

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

A look forward to storage in 2022

Article Ceph

It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every...

Philip Williams
22 December 2021

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Dell EMC PowerEdge and Canonical Charmed Ceph, a proven solution

Article Cloud and server

Here at Canonical, we have lots of industry partnerships where we work jointly, hand-in-hand, to produce the best possible outcomes for the open source community. From getting early access to next generation hardware to ensure Ubuntu is fully compatible when it’s released, to creating solution orientated reference...

Philip Williams
22 November 2021

Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021

Data centre networking: SDDC

Article Networking

To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components.

Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021

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