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Dustin Kirkland
30 March 2016

Ubuntu on Windows – The Ubuntu Userspace for Windows Developers

Cloud and server Article

I’m in San Francisco this week, attending Microsoft’s Build developer conference, as a sponsored guest of Microsoft.That’s perhaps a bit odd for me, as I hadn’t used Windows in nearly 16 years.  But that changed a few months ago, as I embarked on ...


Stéphane Graber
30 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Resource control [4/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the fourth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Available resource limitsLXD offers a variety of resource limits. Some of those are tied to the container itself, like memory quotas, CPU limits and I/O priorities. Some are tied to a particular device instead, like I/O bandwidth or disk usage limits.As with all LXD configuration, ...


Canonical
29 March 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 beta now available for LinuxONE and z Systems

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available on IBM LinuxONE, System z12 and z13 providing an idea platform for developers using IoT applications. Ubuntu is the platform of choice for organisations running scale-out, next-generation workloads in the Cloud. Ubuntu dominates public cloud guest volume and production OpenStack deployments with up to 70% mar ...


Ellen Arnold
24 March 2016

credativ joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to welcome credativ to the Charm Partner Programme. The Charm Partner Programme enables Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to use the full power of Juju, the award­ winning cloud services modeling and application abstraction tool from Canonical. Juju makes it easy for administrators and DevOps teams to model, deploy, ...


TaNeisha Page
24 March 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Bill Bauman & Francisco Hernandez

Cloud and server Article

We caught up with Bill Bauman the Cloud Content Marketing Manager at Canonical to give us an insight into his work and his love for technology. What do you do at Canonical I came from a technical background, but at Canonical I run content and strategy for our cloud marketing team. That means I get ...


Canonical
23 March 2016

MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet

Cloud and server Article

  For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies in the world in Hall 3, but our big, beautiful stand was the best yet; showing off our latest innovation perfectly. Mobile World Congress was the perfect place to ...


Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

Cloud and server News

Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change ...


Stéphane Graber
22 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Your first LXD container [3/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the third blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.As there are a lot of commands involved with managing LXD containers, this post is rather long. If you’d instead prefer a quick step-by-step tour of those same commands, you can try our online demo instead!Creating and starting a new containerAs I mentioned in the previous posts, th ...


Ellen Arnold
17 March 2016

Juju Charm Partner News: March 2016

Cloud and server Article

In this issue: New features, tips and tricks: Juju’s Leadership feature Ecosystem growth: New Partners and Charms Upcoming events: Juju Office Hours, OpenStack Developer Summit and more Leadership With Juju 2.0 around the corner we’d like to dedicate this month’s tips section to Leadership. In the Juju context when we say Leadership we me ...


Stéphane Graber
16 March 2016

LXD 2.0: Installing and configuring LXD [2/12]

Cloud and server Article

This is the second blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.Where to get LXD and how to install itThere are many ways to get the latest and greatest LXD. We recommend you use LXD with the latest LXC and Linux kernel to benefit from all its features but we try to degrade gracefully where possible to support older Linux distributions.The Ubun ...


Christian Reis
15 March 2016

Renting bare-metal (as a Service) with MAAS

Cloud and server Article

With the amount of industry excitement around virtualized cloud, it is easy to downplay the importance of directly utilizing bare metal infrastructure. And yet bare-metal is the one thing every experienced operator knows they can rely on when deploying mission-critical services, representing guaranteed resource, predictable performance, a ...