Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu OpenStack factsheet

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack offers an industry-leading, powerful toolset to enable you to build the most flexible and reliable cloud on OpenStack. What exactly makes up the Ubuntu OpenStack offer? How does Canonical engage with cloud providers, and what can you expect from an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud? This factsheet tells you...

Canonical
29 August 2013


Mark Baker
22 July 2013

Juju GUI for continuous deployment / integration and cloud orchestration

Server Ubuntu

Juju, the leading tool for continuous deployment, continuous integration (CI/CD), and cloud-neutral orchestration, now has a refreshed GUI with smoother workflows for integration professionals spinning up many services across clouds like Amazon EC2 and a range of public OpenStack providers. The new GUI speeds up service...

Mark Baker
22 July 2013


Mark Baker
18 July 2013

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee joins Canonical

Cloud Ubuntu

We are pleased to announce a seriously good addition to the our product team: Ratnadeep (Deep) Bhattacharjee. Deep joins Canonical as Director of Cloud Product Management from VMware where he led its Cloud Infrastructure Platform effort and has a solid understanding of customer needs as they continue to move to virtual...

Mark Baker
18 July 2013


Mark Baker
17 July 2013

OpenStack is 3

Cloud Ubuntu

In April at the OpenStack Summit, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth quipped “My OpenStack, how you’ve grown” as a reference to the thousands of people in the room. OpenStack is indeed growing up and it seems incredible that this Friday, we celebrate OpenStacks’ 3rd Birthday. Incredible – it seems like only yesterday...

Mark Baker
17 July 2013


Mark Baker
2 July 2013

Create trusted compute pools in the cloud

White paper Cloud and server

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Mark Baker
2 July 2013


Mark Baker
1 July 2013

The Juju Charm Championship begins

Server Ubuntu

Ubuntu developer contest offers $10,000 for the most innovative charms Developers around the world are already saving time and money thanks to Juju, and now they have the opportunity to win money too. Today marks the opening of the Juju Charm Championship, in which developers can reap big rewards for getting creative...

Mark Baker
1 July 2013


Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Server Ubuntu

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth demonstrated that life is going to get much less ‘interesting’ for people running...

Mark Baker
11 June 2013


Canonical
7 June 2013

Ubuntu and OpenStack

Videos Cloud and server

Ubuntu and OpenStack. Find out what makes the partnership so important.

Canonical
7 June 2013


Canonical
5 June 2013

Credit card as organisational changer

Article Cloud and server

Why scale out matters Beware the credit card It’s just a little piece of plastic. Yet any part of your organisation can use it to buy infrastructure on demand, in a public cloud, right now. And that’s dangerous. Say marketing want to run a campaign, and they have a rough idea of the IT resources

Canonical
5 June 2013


Canonical
21 May 2013

Cyberport offers innovative cloud-based services for Hong Kong’s technology entrepreneurs

Case study Cloud and server

OpenStack and Ubuntu provide secure, cost-effective cloud infrastructure Summary To give local start-ups and entrepreneurs access to infrastructure and services on demand, Hong Kong’s digital community Cyberport built a new, open-source cloud computing environment on OpenStack and Ubuntu. Following 18 months of...

Canonical
21 May 2013


Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Article Ubuntu

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined

Mark Baker
13 May 2013


Canonical
26 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 in context

Article Cloud and server

The past couple of years have seen a fundamental shift in the way enterprise IT is done. This trend started with the consumerisation of corporate devices, and the gradual introduction of BYOD policies. This has paved the way to the “user voice” being heard more than ever. We’re seeing this trend continuing into the backend

Canonical
26 April 2013


Canonical
25 April 2013

Ubuntu 13.04 delivers OpenStack with high availability, scalable storage and big data deployment capabilities

News Ubuntu

Ubuntu 13.04 offers a complete solution for building highly available, flexible and secure OpenStack production clouds with scale out storage, networking and compute capabilities.

Canonical
25 April 2013


Canonical
14 December 2012

Top 10 questions about Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

It’s the end of the year, we met with lots of people from all around the world, at various conferences and events and wherever they were from and whatever their role in IT was, the same questions always seem to come back. So we thought we’d list the top 10 questions we get, here, for

Canonical
14 December 2012