Blog posts tagged
"Private cloud"

68 posts


Kris Sharma
4 May 2022

Cost optimised private cloud for financial services

Article Financial Services

Why private clouds? Regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements require financial institutions (FIs) to consider carefully where their applications are running and where the customer data is stored. The data protection and data sovereignty laws in most countries require an enterprise to keep data in certain...

Kris Sharma
4 May 2022


Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Article Cloud and server

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot OpenStack straight in the heart. OpenStack fell to the ground and with the last moment of strength exclaimed: “Long live open infrastructure”! That could be a headline of a

Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022


Canonical
1 March 2022

Pacific Textiles drives digital transformation with new infrastructure for legacy and cloud-native applications

Article Canonical announcements

March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The professional services team from Canonical...

Canonical
1 March 2022


Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Article Ceph

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially...

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022


Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022


Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Article Cloud and server

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack

Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022


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


Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack vs AWS is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly some of the most popular cloud technologies in both public and private cloud space. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its...

Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021


Tytus Kurek
25 October 2021

OpenStack Xena and OpenStack Charms 21.10

Article Cloud and server

The release of OpenStack Charms 21.10 brings native support for OpenStack Xena in Charmed OpenStack. This latest version of OpenStack comes with initial support for SmartNICs in Nova and further improvements around Neutron Open Virtual Network (OVN) driver integration.  In order to further simplify the job of the cloud...

Tytus Kurek
25 October 2021


Fouaz Bouguerra
11 October 2021

Data centre networking: SDN fundamentals

Article Networking

To build your Data center networking, learn about Software Defined Netowrking and its architecure, its main components and different flavours

Fouaz Bouguerra
11 October 2021


Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

Where configuration management falls short: model-driven OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is mature, there are hundreds of OpenStack distributions available out there, configuration management tools are all the way around and installing OpenStack from scratch...

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021


Tytus Kurek
13 July 2021

Ubuntu becomes #1 OS for OpenStack deployment

Article Cloud and server

One of the core values of Canonical, that we all identify with, is the mission of bringing the power of open source to everyone on the planet. From developing to developed countries. From individuals to big enterprises. From engineers to CEOs. And there is only one way to find out if we are efficient in

Tytus Kurek
13 July 2021


Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021

OpenStack Wallaby: OpenStack Charms 21.04

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack Charms 21.04 release brings native support for OpenStack Wallaby and Ceph Pacific in Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack. Those latest versions of OpenStack and Ceph come with numerous performance improvements, making the open infrastructure stack even more suitable for network and storage intensive workloads. In...

Tytus Kurek
4 May 2021


Tytus Kurek
26 April 2021

OpenStack CentOS alternatives:

7 reasons to migrate to Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

Looking for OpenStack CentOS alternatives after recent changes in the CentOS project? Think Ubuntu – the most popular Linux distribution for OpenStack deployments across development and production environments. Wondering what makes Ubuntu different? Here are seven reasons you should consider Ubuntu when planning your...

Tytus Kurek
26 April 2021