Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Mark Baker
28 October 2015

News from the Summit: Ubuntu extends lead in OpenStack

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The OpenStack Foundation asked the community and the commuity has spoken. Ubuntu is the choice for OpenStack. The numbers don’t lie – Ubuntu leads in OpenStack and continues to gain momentum. Over 51% of all OpenStack clouds are based on Ubuntu Server and in large scale production OpenStack clouds with over 1000 users,...

Mark Baker
28 October 2015


Canonical
28 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One

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Yesterday was our first full day here at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, and the themes seemed pretty clear. Increased focus on applications and containers – containers – containers. The best part about that is how validating it feels. We’ve been focused on improving the usability of containers for several years now, and that’s...

Canonical
28 October 2015


Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

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For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two

Guest
26 October 2015


Mark Baker
22 October 2015

Join Canonical at the OpenStack Summit Tokyo

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The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo is nearly upon us, infact my Twitter stream is already filling up with messages from fellow conference attendees who have arrived early to see some of the sights in Tokyo. If you are lucky enough to be going to Tokyo for the OpenStack Summit be sure not to miss the

Mark Baker
22 October 2015


Canonical
6 October 2015

Managed Cloud Network Security from Zentera, Alliance and Canonical

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Zentera Systems, Inc., Alliance Technology Group and Canonical jointly announced today a collaboration to deliver secure hybrid networking solutions on top of Canonical’s managed OpenStack cloud, BootStack. The three companies will be exhibiting this collaboration during AWS re:Invent 2015, this week at Zentera’s booth...

Canonical
6 October 2015


James Donner
1 October 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: September 2015

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The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo coming up and we’ve been focused on container technology, expanding our list of Charm Partners and launching the BootStack Calculator. Look out for our upcoming webinar focusing on easy ways to deploy Big Data services. Check out the latest news below!   BootStack Calculator Our...

James Donner
1 October 2015


Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

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After the remarkable success of the recent OpenStack days in Taiwan, Seattle and Silicon Valley (Benelux is next, September 17th), and as we head towards the next OpenStack Design Summit in Tokyo, I feel it is a great time to give you the following piece of advice: You should learn OpenStack. The sooner, the better. Let...

Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015


Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015

Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

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As we’ve mentioned before, Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. OpenStack is, in fact, built on Ubuntu, and its cycles of development are based on Ubuntu’s release schedules. In the public cloud, Ubuntu as a guest OS has also proven to be the developers’ choice, with roughly...

Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015


Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

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Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts...

Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015


Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

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It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team...

Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015


James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Videos Cloud and server

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of...

James Donner
3 August 2015


Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

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I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and

Canonical
3 August 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

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Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015


Mark Baker
27 July 2015

Voting begins for OpenStack Tokyo talks

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We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo in Vancouver. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Creating business value with cross cloud infrastructure Speaker: Mark Shuttleworth Track: Enterprise IT...

Mark Baker
27 July 2015