Blog posts tagged
"Server"

160 posts


Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Webinar Cloud and server

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure...

Canonical
22 February 2017


Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

White paper Cloud and server

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are...

Canonical
23 January 2017


Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016

Get 50% off Linux Foundation training and certification

Article Cloud and server

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us on most production deployments of OpenStack, and we’re bringing you the latest bits of Kubernetes and other exciting cloud technologies, like fresh Docker packages.

Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016


Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Article Cloud and server

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the most secure Linux distribution out of the box.These slides try to briefly explain:what we do to

Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016


Canonical
16 November 2016

Microsoft loves Linux. SQL Server Public Preview available on Ubuntu

Article Canonical announcements

Microsoft has just announced its public preview of the next release of SQL Server, and Canonical is delighted to announce that this preview is available for Ubuntu. SQL Server on Ubuntu now provides freedom of choice for developers and organisations alike whether you use on premises or in the cloud. SQL Server enables...

Canonical
16 November 2016


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: cloud and server?

News Cloud and server

General availability of Canonical’s OpenStack Autopilot, the fastest and easiest way to build an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud LXD machine containers: a pure container hypervisor hosting Ubuntu, CentOS and other Linux guests Tech Preview:  nova-compute-lxd OpenStack driver for machine containers Tech Preview: DPDK fast network...

Canonical
22 October 2015


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future

News Desktop

Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow immediate and constant access to latest updates London – 21 April, 2015. Ubuntu 15.04, the latest release from Canonical, will be available for download this week with...

Canonical
21 April 2015


Canonical
9 January 2015

A year in the Cloud

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud.  Including

Canonical
9 January 2015


Canonical
23 October 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 delivers leading scale-out cloud technology

News Cloud and server

Ubuntu 14.10 for cloud and servers is available for download; includes industry-leading, secure bare-metal LXC containers, multi-OS provisioning, and solutions for OpenStack, big data and Cloud Foundry as well as Docker 1.2 Scale-out orchestration of Windows workloads alongside Linux workloads with Juju Canonical’s...

Canonical
23 October 2014


Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

Server Ubuntu

The telco business has long prided itself on providing dependable services all day every day. Today, dial tones generally survive earthquakes, hurricanes, wars and power cuts and that is testimony to the service quality telcos provide. This high level of service quality runs through a telco’s DNA, which gives their...

Mark Baker
30 September 2013


Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Ubuntu the challenger?

Ubuntu Advantage Ubuntu

When it comes to using Linux on an enterprise server, Ubuntu is generally seen as the new challenger in a market dominated by established vendors specifically targeting enterprises. However, we are seeing signs that this is changing. The W3Techs data showing Ubuntu’s continued growth as a platform for online scale-out...

Mark Baker
10 September 2013


Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Cloud gets a boost with VMware vCHS

Server Ubuntu

On Monday August 26th, VMware announced the general availability of their vCloud Hybrid Service. This service, initially opened back in May to a restricted set of early adopters provides VMware customers with a means of being able to easily bring their workloads out of their own datacentres and into to the cloud. For...

Mark Baker
2 September 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


Mark Baker
19 April 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS certified on HP ProLiant servers: computing for the hyperscale era

Server Ubuntu

Today, Canonical and HP announced that Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS is to be certified and supported by HP on its Proliant Systems: http://www.canonical.com/content/ubuntu-1204-lts-server-be-certified-supported-hp-proliant-systems This is a huge announcement for us at Canonical. It’s also testament that HP sees real business...

Mark Baker
19 April 2012