--- title: Blog posts tagged "data center" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/data-center?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "data center" #### [A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS](https://canonical.com/blog/a-better-way-to-provision-nvidia-bluefield-dpus-at-scale-with-maas) The recent release of MAAS 3.7 introduces a significant new capability: the ability to provision NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) directly through their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), --- Cloud and server #### [OpenStack PoC? No problem!](https://canonical.com/blog/openstack-poc) Setting up a proof of concept (PoC) environment is often one of the first steps in any IT project. It helps organizations to get to grips with the technology, validate the idea, and identify any potential risks. However, setting up an OpenStack PoC has always been a challenge due to the overall complexity of the --- Cloud and server #### [Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation](https://canonical.com/blog/cut-data-center-energy-costs-with-bare-metal-automation) Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility. --- Cloud and server #### [Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs](https://canonical.com/blog/effective-infrastructure-automation-to-reduce-data-center-costs) To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable.  In other words, commoditized. --- Cloud and server #### [OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure](https://canonical.com/blog/openstack-with-sunbeam-for-medium-scale-cloud-infrastructure) The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application. By using containers and --- Cloud and server #### [Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms](https://canonical.com/blog/rivos-and-canonical-partner-to-deliver-scalable-risc-v-solutions-in-data-centers) Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is  working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU solution from Rivos.  Thi --- Canonical announcements #### [Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-ai-evolution-combining-maas-and-nvidia-smartnics) It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s --- AI #### [Space pioneers: Lonestar gears up to create a data centre on the Moon](https://canonical.com/blog/lonestar-data-centre-moon) Why establish a data centre on the Moon? Find out in our blog. --- Canonical announcements #### [Ventana and Canonical collaborate on enabling enterprise data center, high-performance and AI computing on RISC-V](https://canonical.com/blog/ventana-and-canonical-collaboration) This blog is co-authored by Gordan Markuš, Canonical and Kumar Sankaran, Ventana Micro Systems Unlocking the future of semiconductor innovation  RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is rapidly shaping the future of high-performance computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. The RISC-V customizable and --- Silicon #### [What is object storage?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-object-storage) Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very simplistic interface, --- Ceph #### [Firmus Supercloud sets a new standard for sustainable cloud computing with Canonical’s open infrastructure](https://canonical.com/blog/firmus-supercloud-sets-a-new-standard-for-sustainable-cloud-computing-with-canonicals-open-infrastructure) March 29th, 2022—Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Firmus, the Australian cloud infrastructure provider that is revolutionising data centre technology, has built its ultra-efficient and sustainable public cloud on Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes. Data centres are responsible for a staggering 2% of glo --- Cloud and server #### [Cloud Adjacent Storage](https://canonical.com/blog/cloud-adjacent-storage) What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage? Public clouds were --- Ceph #### [A look forward to storage in 2022](https://canonical.com/blog/a-look-forward-to-storage-in-2022) It’s that time of year, where we start to look ahead, and think about the ongoing trends in our various industries. One thing is for certain in the storage industry: capacity demand remains high, with the industry observing continued exponential growth. Growth, growth, growth More and more data is being created every day. It truly --- Ceph #### [Dell EMC PowerEdge and Canonical Charmed Ceph, a proven solution](https://canonical.com/blog/dell-emc-poweredge-and-canonical-charmed-ceph) Here at Canonical, we have lots of industry partnerships where we work jointly, hand-in-hand, to produce the best possible outcomes for the open source community. From getting early access to next generation hardware to ensure Ubuntu is fully compatible when it’s released, to creating solution orientated reference architectures for produc --- Cloud and server #### [Data centre networking: SDDC](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-software-defined-data-centre) To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components. --- Networking #### [SUSE Enterprise Storage: What next?](https://canonical.com/blog/suse-enterprise-storage) Late last year, SUSE completed their acquisition of Rancher Labs, and in doing so, has had to make some decisions on their product roadmap and ongoing support commitments. SUSE Enterprise Storage, SUSE’s software-defined storage product based on Ceph, doesn’t appear to have made the cut. According to their support pages, it is scheduled f --- Ceph 1. *Previous page* 2. [1](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/data-center?format=md&page=1) 3. 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