Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Mark Baker
28 June 2017

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

Article Cloud and server

  7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all together to the point that global businesses such as Walmart, AT&T and Bloomberg are now running on OpenStack. Whilst most OpenStack implementations started

Mark Baker
28 June 2017


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
20 June 2017

OpenStack and Containers live Q&A session

Article Cloud and server

Join us for a 1 hour online session with a cloud expert OpenStack and Containers Office Hours are online Q&A sessions held on an ongoing basis. Their aim is to help community members and customers deploy, manage and scale their Ubuntu-based cloud infrastructure. What’s covered? These interactive online sessions are...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
20 June 2017


Canonical
2 June 2017

Customising MAAS installs

Article Cloud and server

by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the paradigm for bare metal machine installation has been to use a...

Canonical
2 June 2017


Canonical
11 May 2017

PCCW Global chooses Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju

News Canonical announcements

PCCW Global plans expansion to deliver enterprise, edge applications, NFV and IoT enablement to customers Integrated Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS solution will deliver high-performance, elastic infrastructure Removes the complexity of multiple systems and OpenStack APIs streamlining service integration and leveraging...

Canonical
11 May 2017


Canonical
9 May 2017

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

Case study Canonical announcements

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research...

Canonical
9 May 2017


Video: Managed OpenStack upgrades

Videos Cloud and server

The process of upgrading OpenStack releases can be challenging, given the many moving parts and the cadence of releases. In this use case video, Juan Carliante, Cloud Reliability Engineer for Canonical explains how Canonical’s BootStack  Engineering team solves issues arising during the upgrade process quickly using...


Canonical
4 May 2017

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions based on Ubuntu OpenStack and NetApp storage Open Cloud Solution will help organisations build scalable and easily managed private and hybrid clouds NetApp data management and storage flash solutions integrated with Ubuntu OpenStack to supply open cloud...

Canonical
4 May 2017


Canonical
24 April 2017

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

News Canonical announcements

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across...

Canonical
24 April 2017


Canonical
20 April 2017

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

News Canonical announcements

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare...

Canonical
20 April 2017


Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world....

Canonical
18 April 2017


Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the...

Canonical
13 April 2017


Canonical
5 April 2017

Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE

Article Cloud and server

Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or risks to data security. Now imagine a world where enterprises and service providers can combine this outstanding scalability and security with the benefits of...

Canonical
5 April 2017


Canonical
3 April 2017

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing...

Canonical
3 April 2017


Tom Callway
29 March 2017

Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know

Article Cloud and server

New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business assumptions. The cloud has forced today’s telecom service providers to transform and perform at increasingly high speeds, counter to their normal mode of...

Tom Callway
29 March 2017