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Blog posts tagged
"Canonical"


Brent Clements
14 July 2016

How Canonical Battles Zero-Day​ Threats

Cloud and server Article

I work for Canonical as a Consulting Architect. Every design I put together I try to secure as best as possible. One reason I came to Canonical was because of the way we handle security updates and our approach to security.  This blog post outlines how we handle updates, specifically around zero-day vunerabilities. We have… Continue readi ...


Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

Cloud and server News

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int ...


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Cloud and server News

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations   ...


Carla Berkers
24 May 2016

Autopilot: benefits of early release

Cloud and server User Experience

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the ...


Canonical
11 April 2016

Nexenta & Canonical to Deliver Joint Software-Defined Storage Solution

Ubuntu Article

NexentaEdge Charms now available via Juju Charm Store; Canonical to offer NexentaEdge to enterprise customers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LONDON, UK – April 6, 2016 — Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today jointly announced ...


Canonical
22 February 2016

Canonical creates first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab (V-PIL)

Cloud and server News

Canonical announces the creation of the first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab for scale out infrastructure Enables service providers to rigorously test their VNF performance and interoperability before deploying in live network architecture Dramatic reduction in cost and time for deploying new services Affirmed, Metaswitch and GENBAN ...


Rebecca Cradick
2 February 2016

Sanjay Sinha from Oracle on Cloud adoption and working with Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Sanjay Sinha, Vice President of Platform Products at Oracle speaks to Alexander Gallagher, Business Development for Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud on the drivers behind cloud adoption. Alexander: What do you think are the biggest barriers facing enterprises when it comes to cloud adoption? Sanjay: The barriers have been coming down an ...


Marcin Kierdelewicz
15 January 2016

Ubuntu is coming to a city near you

Cloud and server Article

Happy New Year! I’ve been busy planning our first ever Ubuntu Day. Ubuntu Day is a local event organised with our partners to support awareness and adoption of Ubuntu technologies in local markets. It’s an opportunity for people to learn about Ubuntu Cloud products directly from the experts, and to obtain some technical hands on ...


Canonical
17 September 2015

Ubuntu nominated in V3 Technology Awards shortlist; cast your vote!

Cloud and server News

We’re delighted to have been nominated for three V3 Technology Awards this year. It’s been a great year for us and so it’s fantastic to be recognised for our recent innovation. The sixth annual awards provides the opportunity for V3 readers to vote on the best business products and vendors of the year. The shortlist features ...


Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts behind containers ...


Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Cloud and server Article

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control requires ...


Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

Cloud and server Article

LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than KVM. The container-bas ...