Blog posts tagged
"Private cloud"

68 posts


Holly Hall
23 March 2021

What is cloud native?

Article Cloud and server

The term cloud native is widely used when thinking about computing and software development, encompassing a wide range of concepts that are regularly used in technology. Let’s break it down and take a closer look – what does cloud native really mean? What you need to know As a concept, cloud native is a set

Holly Hall
23 March 2021


Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021

OpenStack Ironic, Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store – OpenStack Charms 21.01

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 21.01. This new release includes: a tech-preview version of OpenStack Ironic operators (charms), Cinder volume replication and Glance multi-store support for Charmed OpenStack. OpenStack Ironic The latest version of OpenStack Charms brings initial...

Tytus Kurek
12 February 2021


Tytus Kurek
8 February 2021

Hybrid cloud – everything you need to know

Article Cloud and server

Hybrid cloud allows businesses to optimise their costs associated with cloud infrastructure maintenance. It also brings many other benefits, such as business continuity, compliance, better scalability and improved agility. According to the Forrester Wave: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020, hybrid cloud is an essential...

Tytus Kurek
8 February 2021


Tytus Kurek
7 December 2020

SUSE OpenStack Cloud reaches the end of life

Article Cloud and server

Time passes by! A year has passed since SUSE announced its decision to discontinue SUSE OpenStack Cloud, and many enterprises are already affected. This is because SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 reaches the end of life (EOL) in late May 2021. There are 6 months left to solve this problem. So it is time to think

Tytus Kurek
7 December 2020


Sarah Dickinson
2 December 2020

Forecasting the future of cloud with OpenStack experts

Article Ubuntu

OpenStack, the cloud computing platform, has proved to be a beacon of success for open source. It rounds off 10 years in existence this year, a period which has seen it reach nearly 200 countries, and we want to look ahead to what the future holds for the technology.  We’ve spoken to a number of

Sarah Dickinson
2 December 2020


Sarah Dickinson
13 November 2020

10 years and 10 million cores: charting OpenStack’s greatest achievements

Article Ubuntu

Technology anniversaries have become more commonplace in recent years. The iPhone at 10 years old, indeed Canonical itself turned 15 last year. Here though, we want to look at OpenStack reaching double figures this year.  Starting off as a joint project between NASA and Rackspace in 2010, over 500 companies have now...

Sarah Dickinson
13 November 2020


Guest
21 October 2020

OpenStack at 10 – from peak to plateau of productivity

Article Ubuntu

This week is the latest Open Infrastructure Summit, in a week where the OpenStack Foundation became the Open Infrastructure Foundation to reflect the expansion of the organisation’s mission, scope and community to advance open source over the next decade to support open infrastructure. It is also ten years since...

Guest
21 October 2020


Canonical
13 August 2020

Trilio and Canonical extend partnership to enable data protection for Charmed OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Trilio, announced today an extension of their partnership to include TrilioVault data protection capabilities with Charmed OpenStack as a tested and validated joint solution. TrilioVault for OpenStack is a cloud-native, application-centric data protection platform that was designed to provide native backup...

Canonical
13 August 2020


Tytus Kurek
27 May 2020

Hybrid cloud vs multi-cloud: what is the difference?

Article Cloud and server

Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud are two exclusive terms that are often confused. While the hybrid cloud represents a model for extending private cloud infrastructure with one of the existing public clouds, a multi-cloud refers to an environment where multiple clouds are used at the same time, regardless of their type....

Tytus Kurek
27 May 2020


Tytus Kurek
18 May 2020

Managed private cloud cheaper than self-managed?

Article Cloud and server

Outsourcing private cloud operations can significantly accelerate the private cloud deployment process. Although most organisations are successful with the initial roll-out of the cloud, many struggle to operate it effectively post-deployment. This is because private cloud platforms, such as OpenStack, are known to be...

Tytus Kurek
18 May 2020


cmoullec
22 April 2020

A guide to a successful OpenStack adoption and deployment

Article Cloud and server

Discover Canonical’s proven OpenStack implementation process OpenStack is one of the most active open source projects in the world. It is an essential component of private cloud infrastructure for countless businesses, and over the last few years, it has evolved to become the de-facto standard for implementing cloud...

cmoullec
22 April 2020


Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem,...

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020


Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds

Article Cloud and server

Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully...

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019


Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Article Cloud and server

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and...

Canonical
11 November 2019