Blog posts written by Canonical

Canonical
18 June 2018

A unified OpenStack for a scalable open infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Stu Miniman and John Boyer of theCUBE interviewed Mark Baker, Field Product Manager, Canonical at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Read on to to find out about OpenStack’s increasing maturity. The Kubernetes and OpenStack story isn’t simple. Challenges exist, and plenty of pathfinding still needs to take place when it...

Canonical
18 June 2018

Canonical
13 June 2018

451 Research benchmarks public and private infrastructure cost

Article Cloud and server

Independent Report highlights the TCO of Canonical’s managed private cloud in a diverse multi-cloud strategy and enterprise infrastructure portfolio 451 Research’s latest report, ‘Busting the myth of private cloud economics ’, found that Canonical’s managed private OpenStack offering, BootStack, delivers private cloud...

Canonical
13 June 2018

Canonical
6 June 2018

Ubuntu to host containers in Amazon’s (EKS) for container portability

Article Cloud and server

The benefits of Ubuntu optimisation by Amazon and Canonical now extend to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) with Ubuntu worker nodes hosting high performance Docker containers in AWS. This creates perfect portability for enterprise container workloads developed on Ubuntu workstations and operated...

Canonical
6 June 2018

Canonical
4 June 2018

Kubernetes and OpenStack solving AI complexities at scale

Article Cloud and server

Stu Miniman and John Boyer of theCUBE interviewed Stephan Fabel, Director of Ubuntu Product and Development at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Read on for the full interview, and to hear more on Kubernetes, Kubeflow and MicroK8s. OpenStack has entered a new phase, maturing to a point where those in attendance are...

Canonical
4 June 2018

Canonical
31 May 2018

Simplifying deployment and management of edge clouds with CPLANE.ai

Webinar Cloud and server

Title: Simplifying deployment and management of edge clouds Speakers: Matt Akins & Brandon Williams Date/Time: June 13, 12:00PM EST / 5:00PM BST Canonical recently announced a partnership with CPLANE.ai to simplify cloud management. Canonical brings scale, performance, and reliability to the cloud as well as ease of...

Canonical
31 May 2018

Canonical
30 May 2018

OpenStack Summit Vancouver: Automating the data centre

Article Cloud and server

Stu Miniman and John Boyer of theCUBE interviewed Mark Shuttleworth at the OpenStack Summit following the Canonical founder’s keynote in Vancouver. Read on for the full interview, and to hear more on the economics of cloud. Rethinking the data centre to make it fully automated from the ground up was the opportunity...

Canonical
30 May 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI, and Blockchain

Webinar Cloud and server

Title: Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI, and Blockchain Speakers: Mark Baker (Canonical), John Erik Setsaas (Signicat), Wincie Wong (RBS), Vivek Bajaj (IBM) Date/Time: June 5, 7:30AM EST / 12:30PM BST The world of money is constantly changing. Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things have...

Canonical
30 May 2018

Canonical
22 May 2018

Canonical Managed Cloud adds data protection and recovery with Trilio

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical BootStack and Ubuntu Advantage customers now can access TrilioVault OpenStack Vancouver: – May 22, 2018 – Canonical and Trilio announced today a partnership agreement to deliver TrilioVault backup and recovery solutions as part of BootStack, Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack private cloud solution....

Canonical
22 May 2018

Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net...

Canonical
15 May 2018

Canonical
11 May 2018

OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2018

Article Cloud and server

Event Details Date: May 21-24 Location: Vancouver, BC Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre East Booth: B7 Event Link: https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2018 Event Background OpenStack Summit is the leading event in Open Infrastructure, bringing together the builders and operators for sessions and workshops on...

Canonical
11 May 2018

Canonical
2 May 2018

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Article Desktop

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices...

Canonical
2 May 2018

Canonical
27 April 2018

What’s new in Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenStack Queens

Article Cloud and server

Canonical have recently released 18.04 LTS to continue Ubuntu’s positioning as a reference cloud for digital transformation workloads. Ubuntu is at the heart of the world’s largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail and telecommunications. Join our upcoming webinar...

Canonical
27 April 2018

Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

News Canonical announcements

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018

Canonical
23 April 2018

Dell Technologies World 2018

Article Cloud and server

Details Date: April 30th – May 3rd Location: Las Vegas Venue: The Venetian Booth: 1756 More information Background Discover the Dell Technologies connected ecosystem of IT infrastructure, applications, devices and security that enable real transformation. Dell Technologies World is for the technologists, thought leaders...

Canonical
23 April 2018