Blog posts tagged
"Private cloud"

68 posts


Tytus Kurek
10 May 2023

OpenInfra Summit Vancouver 2023 is coming

Article Cloud and server

Heads up! The OpenInfra Summit Vancouver 2023 is coming!!! After the successful resurrection of the event in Berlin last year, the OpenInfra Summit is back as an in-person event again. The conference will take place in Vancouver, Canada, on June 13-15. As usual, Canonical will be there to share the latest news about...

Tytus Kurek
10 May 2023


Miona Aleksic
8 May 2023

Spring news from the LXD team

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we will go through some of the most significant features we have included in our monthly releases so far this year. Links to each of the release announcements are linked for detailed information.

Miona Aleksic
8 May 2023


Tytus Kurek
26 April 2023

ChatGPT uncertain about the future of cloud computing

Article Cloud and server

ChatGPT has been the talk of the town for more than four months now. As the first ever artificial intelligence (AI) -powered chatbot, it has quickly gained immense popularity, helping students, engineers and even executives generate content, write and debug code and run market analyses. But could ChatGPT be used for...

Tytus Kurek
26 April 2023


Felipe Vanni
12 April 2023

Phoenix Systems sets a new standard for secure cloud services with Canonical and IBM

Article Cloud and server

Phoenix Systems, a Swiss company, partnered with IBM and Canonical to create a hyper-secure OpenStack cloud focused on data sovereignty and data protection. Switzerland is a country where data must be hosted within its borders, and for many workloads, public clouds are not an option. Phoenix Systems stepped in to fill...

Felipe Vanni
12 April 2023


Tytus Kurek
17 March 2023

What is cloud repatriation?

Article Cloud and server

Cloud repatriation is undoubtedly one of the hottest trends in the cloud infrastructure space as of 2023. It enables organisations to regain control of their cloud spend, workloads and data. According to a report on cloud repatriation by 451 Research group, 48% of IT decision makers confirmed that they had moved their...

Tytus Kurek
17 March 2023


Tytus Kurek
16 March 2023

Kubernetes vs OpenStack: which one to choose?

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes vs OpenStack is a common dilemma that organisations face when considering the modernisation of their IT infrastructure. Both are well-established open-source technologies for building cloud infrastructure, and both bring tangible benefits, especially when used in combination. Yet, they differ significantly...

Tytus Kurek
16 March 2023


Tytus Kurek
27 February 2023

VMware alternatives: discover open source

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for VMware alternatives? Think open source – the world’s leading software portfolio. Open-source software enables you to build fully functional virtualisation and cloud infrastructure while ensuring total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction and business continuity. In this blog, we will walk you through...

Tytus Kurek
27 February 2023


Tytus Kurek
16 January 2023

Cloud optimisation: cut your 2023 cloud spending by two-thirds

Article Cloud and server

Cloud optimisation enables organisations to significantly lower their cloud spending while ensuring the desired performance and necessary compliance. It’s a process that every business should adopt when choosing cloud infrastructure as a foundation for their applications. It’s been proven that applying cloud...

Tytus Kurek
16 January 2023


Canonical
2 January 2023

Hybrid cloud infrastructure modernisation

Cloud AI

Public clouds enabled digital transformation at unprecedented speed. But their operational costs over time can be exacting as compute needs increase. Hybrid clouds emerged as an alternative to gain the benefits of both worlds: private infrastructure that allows for lower operational expenditures and tighter control, and...

Canonical
2 January 2023


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


Kris Sharma
30 September 2022

Migrating to an open-source private cloud platform: key considerations

Article Financial Services

Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource customisation of on-prem infrastructure. Private clouds allow financial institutions to have greater control over hardware and software choices. They make it easier to...

Kris Sharma
30 September 2022


Tytus Kurek
26 September 2022

Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS....

Tytus Kurek
26 September 2022


Miona Aleksic
12 September 2022

Using LXD to host your own ERP, cost-effectively

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking to host your own ERP cost-effectively, or perhaps evaluating solutions to host other types of applications for your small business? Learn how you can do that with LXD.

Miona Aleksic
12 September 2022


Kris Sharma
10 August 2022

Migrating from VMware to an open-source private cloud in financial services

Article Financial Services

Financial institutions will need to use the right mix of cloud services to maximise application performance while on-boarding innovative new capabilities. How can organisations achieve this cost-benefit balance?

Kris Sharma
10 August 2022