Blog posts written by John Zannos

John Zannos
22 April 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available

Cloud and server Article

With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we now offer the same great Ubuntu experience on z Systems and LinuxONE servers as x86 and OpenPower platforms. Download now Ubuntu is the platform of choice for new cloud-native applications from modern development teams. It dominates public cloud guest volume and production OpenStack deployments with ...

John Zannos
19 April 2016

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building ecosystem of more than ...

John Zannos
22 February 2016

Canonical becomes founding member of Open Source MANO (OSM) group

Cloud and server Article

Earlier today, Telefonica announced the creation of the Open Source MANO (OSM) group and I am delighted to say that Canonical is one of the eight founding members of this community. A total of 23 Service Providers and Solution Vendors will work together to focus on delivering an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) stack ...

John Zannos
22 February 2016

Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures

Cloud and server Article

Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create and deliver new services faster. With this promise comes new complexity. Earlier today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Canonical announced the first VNF Performance Interoperab ...

John Zannos
26 January 2016

Microsoft announces first Technical Preview of Azure Stack with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

The cloud is about choice, portability and scale. I believe it is important for every element of the cloud ecosystem to support and expand both. Ubuntu is a critical part of delivering on choice for the cloud by supplying a consistent Ubuntu experience to developers and user regardless on which public or private cloud they ...

John Zannos
5 January 2016

OpenPOWER Foundation: Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

Ubuntu Article

Today, I am pleased to announce that I have accepted my nomination to be the new Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation. OpenPOWER represents a gigantic leap forward in revolutionizing the datacenter through open hardware and open software like Linux. Through open source we innovate, collaborate, and scale, and my increasing role within OpenPO ...

John Zannos
28 September 2015

Ubuntu on Azure: Microsoft makes big decision on big data

Ubuntu Article

Azure HDInsight continues to validate Ubuntu’s cloud leadership Microsoft has selected Ubuntu for their first Linux-based Azure offering. The company announced today that their Hadoop-based big data service offering, HDInsight, will run on Ubuntu and Hortonworks. Microsoft and Canonical are committed to meeting customer needs as industry ...

John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

Cloud and server Article

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity of creating and depl ...

John Zannos
4 November 2014

EMC partners with Ubuntu for OpenStack storage

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to announce an expansion of EMC’s participation as an Ubuntu Cloud Partner. Today at the OpenStack Paris Summit, EMC announced two new offerings – an OpenStack Reference Architecture Program and an EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) OpenStack®-powered Edition. This announcement is an indication of EMC’s continued comm ...

John Zannos
3 November 2014

PMC Joins Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server News

As the OpenStack ecosystem continues to grow rapidly, so too does our OpenStack Interoperability Lab. It tests and validates the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. Today, we welcome PMC-Sierra, Inc. to OIL. PMC is a semiconductor and so ...

John Zannos
3 November 2014

Midokura joins OIL and opens MidoNet SDN

Cloud and server News

Midokura, a network virtualisation specialist, has today joined the Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme. As part of this programme, Midokura’s MidoNet technology, a software-defined virtual network solution designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds, will be part of Ubuntu’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). MidoNet will benefi ...

John Zannos
10 October 2014

Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution

Cloud and server News

Big Data, scale and cloud are the big topics of technology today. Canonical with Ubuntu continues to drive innovation through commitment to openness and building a collaborative ecosystem. The key elements of this disruption include: innovation, automation, lower TCO, greater density, optimised power/performance ratios and new architectur ...