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Canonical
16 March 2015

Exploring Juju with Project Calico

Cloud and server Article

Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to each other, and then hope you didn’t make a typo or other form of error that leads to a tricky-to-debug misbehaviour in OpenStack. For ...


Canonical
16 March 2015

Internet of Things: 2lemetry

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Core allows you to easily and securely deploy an app to any number of devices. But all those devices need a place to connect to in order to transmit and receive data. 2lemetry is the perfect fit, providing a secure, scalable cloud platform for all of your devices. Using the combination of Ubuntu and ...


Canonical
13 March 2015

Codership joins growing OpenStack Interoperability Lab community

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to welcome Codership, creator of database clustering technology, Galera, to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Codership provides an essential building block for high availability databases in an OpenStack cloud environment. OpenStack provides a variety of excellent technology choices to enterprises loo ...


Robin Winslow
11 March 2015

A seachange in front-end best practice (but not for a while)

Ubuntu Featured

Despite some reservations, it looks like HTTP/2 is very definitely the future of the Internet. Speed improvements HTTP/2 may not be the perfect standard, but it will bring with it many long-awaited speed improvements to internet communication: Sending of many different resources in the first response Multiplexing requests to prevent block ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

NFV and SDN on OpenStack for network operators

Cloud and server White paper

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) are two of the hottest infrastructure technologies around, particularly for telecoms and network operators wanting to map their services in a more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective way. One of the biggest areas of interest for operators as they look to inte ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

How to face the challenges of becoming a cloud operator

Cloud and server White paper

In a shifting market, the traditional revenues of telcos and service providers are under threat. Voice revenues are at an all-time low, and high wireless data costs are negatively impacting margins. As an additional challenge, many enterprises are moving low-value workloads and applications to public clouds such as Amazon, eroding traditi ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

How Ubuntu OpenStack makes the cloud work for telcos and SPs

Cloud and server White paper

Telcos and Service Providers expect near 100% uptime and the flexibility to scale their infrastructure up and down on-demand. This requires a proven cloud platform that minimises time-to-revenue and ensures predictable costs. Here’s why you should consider Ubuntu OpenStack for your next cloud project: Up to 75% of OpenStack clouds are bui ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

Make IT rain: public cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server White paper

Ubuntu OpenStack is the most trusted platform on which to build a public cloud. One of the best things about it is the ease of moving from a proof of concept or small lab-based deployment to a large, scalable, production one. In this brochure, we discuss some basics about running Ubuntu OpenStack for public clouds, ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

Architecting OpenStack for enterprise reality

Cloud and server White paper

With OpenStack becoming more and more popular as a cloud-building technology for enterprises, companies are asking themselves several important questions. How viable is OpenStack as an enterprise platform? Is it possible (and feasible) to integrate it with existing virtualisation infrastructure, e.g. vSphere from VMware? Is there a busine ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

Building a private cloud? Taking the leap

Cloud and server White paper

In this whitepaper, you will read about moving your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud from the proof-of-concept stage to a production environment. It covers technical and organisational aspects, and gives you some best practices on running your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud in production and making it future-proof. Download eBook ...


Canonical
11 March 2015

A reference architecture for implementing OpenStack on VMware vSphere

Cloud and server White paper

This technical whitepaper, a collaboration between Canonical and VMware, proposes a reference architecture for running OpenStack on VMware vSphere. It draws on experience both companies have in joint customer engagements, and lists some best practices and recommendations for getting the most out of existing enterprise IT infrastructure wh ...