Blog posts tagged
"cloud"

294 posts


Guest
27 July 2018

Kata Containers – now available in the Snap Store

Article Cloud and server

Guest blog by Julio Montes, Linux Software Engineer at Intel Kata Containers is now available as a Snap and to install from the Snap Store. Kata Containers is a lightweight, fast to boot, virtual machine (VM) designed to provide the speed of containers and the isolation of VMs. Inside the VMs, the processes run on

Guest
27 July 2018


tcuthbert
17 July 2018

How to Manage Multi-Cloud Services with Juju

Article Cloud and server

Introduction Managing a service with deployments in multi-cloud environments can be a challenge in terms of troubleshooting and scalability due to the complexity of dealing with different public cloud providers. An effective way to manage services deployed cross-cloud is to use tools that allow you to define your...

tcuthbert
17 July 2018


Canonical
10 July 2018

Infographic: Ubuntu connects everything

Article Cloud and server

As highlighted in the Ubuntu is Everywhere infographic to coincide with the 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu is used by millions across every sector and technology imaginable. Two years on, and with 18.04 LTS now released, we take a new look at how Ubuntu has evolved and is at the heart of emerging technologies including AI, blockchain,

Canonical
10 July 2018


Canonical
9 July 2018

Minimal Ubuntu, on public clouds and Docker Hub

Article Canonical announcements

Today we are delighted to introduce the new Minimal Ubuntu, optimized for automated use at scale, with a tiny package set and minimal security cross-section. Speed, performance and stability are primary concerns for cloud developers and ops. “The small footprint of Minimal Ubuntu, when deployed with fast VM provisioning...

Canonical
9 July 2018


James Nunns
19 June 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI and Blockchain

Article Cloud and server

How do financial services organisations evolve so that they are no longer seen as cumbersome Goliaths unable to keep up with the pace of change? The answer has its roots at both an infrastructure level, where legacy technology is being replaced with something more akin to what is seen in challengers banks or in technology

James Nunns
19 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
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


Michael Iatrou
3 May 2018

LXD Clusters: A Primer

Article Cloud and server

Since its inception, LXD has been striving to offer a fresh and intuitive user experience for machine containers. LXD instances can be managed over the network through a REST API and a single command line tool. For large scale LXD deployments, OpenStack has been the standard approach: using Nova LXD, lightweight...

Michael Iatrou
3 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
9 April 2018

Canonical and CPLANE partner to simplify cloud management

Article Cloud and server

Recently announced, Canonical and CPLANE will now offer a distributed cloud orchestration and software-defined networking solution to simplify the complexity of managing distributed clouds. Canonical will deliver high-performance distributed cloud orchestration to its customers with CPLANE’s Multi-Site Manager (MSM)....

Canonical
9 April 2018


Canonical
5 April 2018

Cloud-init v.18.2: CLI subcommands

Article Cloud and server

This article originally appeared on Chad Smith’s blog Cloud-init published its second release of 2018: version 18.2. Among many notable features in the 18.1 release and the 18.2 release, the cloud-init team has been adding some polish to our CLI tooling to make cloud-init easier to inspect and interact with. I will give a run

Canonical
5 April 2018


Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

Article Internet of Things

In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000...

Guest
5 April 2018


Canonical
14 March 2018

NVIDIA GTC 2018

Article Cloud and server

Event Information Date: March 27 – 29 City/State: San Jose, CA Location: San Jose McEnery Convention Center Booth: #1227 GTC is the premier AI and deep learning conference, providing unparalleled training, industry insights, and direct access to NVIDIA and industry experts — all in one place. It features the latest...

Canonical
14 March 2018


Canonical
15 February 2018

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Article Canonical announcements

Storage Made Easy (SME) today announced the availability of the Storage Made Easy™ Enterprise File Fabric™ charm through Canonical’s Juju charm store. The store provides access to a wide range of best practice solutions which can be deployed to public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as well as private clouds such as

Canonical
15 February 2018