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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Canonical
19 September 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers

Canonical announcements News

IBM and Canonical expand Hybrid Cloud Alliance as Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers Ubuntu OpenStack support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade support offering. Ubuntu OpenStack is the only OpenStack offered by a commercial Linux distributor that supports IBM Power Systems today. LONDON, U.K, ...


Canonical
14 September 2016

Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud

Canonical announcements News

Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with enterprise security updates Ubuntu Advantage support available through the Bigstep console CHICAGO, U.S and LONDON, U.K. Sept 14 – Bigstep, the big data cloud provider, and Canonical, the ...


Canonical
30 August 2016

Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab

Canonical announcements Article

Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP compliant. At the new ...


Brent Clements
26 August 2016

Conjure-up is magic!

Cloud and server Article

There are few things that really get me excited when it comes to technology. But those that do can be classified as follows: Technology that makes my life easier Technology that makes my job easier Anything Ubuntu Linux related Canonical, the company I work for, has released a tool which touches each of my interest… Continue reading Conju ...


Canonical
22 August 2016

QTS and Canonical unveil private, fully managed OpenStack cloud

Canonical announcements News

OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, and LONDON, U.K. (August 22, 2016) – Responding to increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing) announced today a pr ...


Mark Baker
15 August 2016

Lunch and learn with OpenStack containers

Cloud and server Article

Follow the instructions in this article to spend around an hour over your lunch time to get an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud up and running in containers on a single machine. The resulting cloud will launch container based workloads. News about containers with OpenStack is everywhere right now. Be it OpenStack running on containers, runni ...


Brent Clements
26 July 2016

What is and Why Micro-Segmentation for multi-tenant big software?

Cloud and server Article

Working with enterprises particularly those in health, financial services and government sectors who are required to be serious about security and who need to meet regulatory compliance requirements,  micro-segmentation has emerged as a hot security topic. It is currently the preferred method for securing big software deployments in multi ...


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
5 July 2016

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

Cloud and server News

Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center operator in Europe a ...


Adam Stokes
9 June 2016

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

Cloud and server Article

Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation? Wish you could just tell folks to just conjure-up your project? ...


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   ...


Guest
31 May 2016

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all byproducts of Big Software. The only way to address the complexity is with automatic, AI-powered analytics. Summary Canonical and Skymind a ...