Cloud and Server

All you need to know about designing, building, and managing your
OpenStack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale-out deployment.


Philip Williams
26 February 2024

Ceph Storage for AI

Article Ceph

Use open source Ceph storage to fuel your AI vision The use of AI is a hot topic for any organisation right now. The allure of operational insights, profit, and cost reduction that could be derived from existing data makes it a technology that’s being rolled out at an incredible pace in even change-resistant organisations.

Philip Williams
26 February 2024


Serdar Vural
23 February 2024

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective and composable telco edge cloud solution, which is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost...

Serdar Vural
23 February 2024


Miona Aleksic
15 February 2024

5 Edge Computing Examples You Should Know

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we’re exploring edge computing examples, its diverse applications and use cases, with a special focus on how Canonical’s MicroCloud fits seamlessly into this transformative landscape.

Miona Aleksic
15 February 2024


Philip Williams
8 February 2024

Cloud storage security best practices

Article Ceph

Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation, if lost or exposed there could be severe repercussions.  Failure to protect against system failure could lead to the loss of business data rendering a business...

Philip Williams
8 February 2024


Frank Heimes
6 February 2024

IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – the newest addition to IBM’s world-leading LinuxONE server family. The previous model in the Express series, IBM LinuxONE III Express, was immensely popular, and brought the power of LinuxONE to a wider...

Frank Heimes
6 February 2024


Andreea Munteanu
30 January 2024

AI on-prem: what should you know?

Article Cloud and server

Organisations are reshaping their digital strategies, and AI is at the heart of these changes, with many projects now ready to run in production. Enterprises often start these AI projects on the public cloud because of the ability to minimise the hardware burden. However, as initiatives scale, organisations often look...

Andreea Munteanu
30 January 2024


Tytus Kurek
12 January 2024

Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present

Article Cloud and server

We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure couldn’t be cloud-native, too? Or maybe it’s already cloud-native, but you’ve never had a chance to dive deep into the stack to check it out? What does the term...

Tytus Kurek
12 January 2024


Tytus Kurek
10 January 2024

What is sovereign cloud?

Article Cloud and server

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, the concept of a sovereign cloud has recently emerged in response to data management challenges. As governments increasingly recognise the importance of safeguarding their data, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and asserting digital autonomy, sovereign cloud...

Tytus Kurek
10 January 2024


Bill Wear
3 January 2024

MOTL: N33 NUC, Part 2

Article Cloud and server

Accessing the BIOS; making a plan My next step is to confirm whether or not the N33 NUC will PXE boot. A moderate Google search didn’t turn up any active documentation that confirmed this. There were feature listings on Amazon for similar NUCS, but who knows if those are reality or marketing? The obvious thing

Bill Wear
3 January 2024


Tytus Kurek
2 January 2024

OpenStack with Sunbeam for small-scale cloud infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Whenever it comes to a small-scale private cloud infrastructure project roll-out, organisations usually face a serious dilemma. The implementation process often seems complex due to a lack of knowledge, tricky migrations and an immediate need from management to run various extensions, such as Kubernetes, on top. The...

Tytus Kurek
2 January 2024


Oliver Smith
13 December 2023

Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Oliver Smith
13 December 2023


Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers

Article Cloud and server

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) traces its roots back to Google’s development of Borg in 2004, a Google internal system managing clusters and applications. In 2014, Google introduced Kubernetes, an open-source platform based on Borg’s principles, gaining rapid popularity for automating containerized application...

Hugo Huang
5 December 2023


Serdar Vural
5 December 2023

Canonical joins the Sylva project

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source infrastructure solutions to Sylva and contribute to the project’s goal of providing a platform to validate cloud-native telco functions. Sylva was created to accelerate the...

Serdar Vural
5 December 2023


Philip Williams
5 December 2023

Edge storage with MicroCeph

Article Ceph

Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like retail outlets, remote or branch offices, filming locations and even cars. Use cases for edge storage include local processing, content collaboration that cannot take...

Philip Williams
5 December 2023