Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Advantage"

75 posts


Canonical
25 October 2016

Infographic: Ubuntu Advantage explained

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical. It includes Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool, and the Canonical Livepatch Service, which enables you to apply kernel fixes without restarting your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems. Ubuntu Advantage gives the world’s largest enterprises the assurance...

Canonical
25 October 2016


Canonical
17 October 2016

Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade offering Partnership extends Canonical’s support for ARM server which dates back to Ubuntu...

Canonical
17 October 2016


Canonical
13 October 2016

Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure...

Canonical
13 October 2016


Canonical
12 October 2016

Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM

News Canonical announcements

Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER compute resources  for faster processing of scientific inquiries Canonical’s OpenStack is available on all IBM server platforms Juju and MAAS provide bare metal...

Canonical
12 October 2016


Canonical
27 September 2016

Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio

News Canonical announcements

Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process...

Canonical
27 September 2016


Canonical
19 September 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers

News Canonical announcements

IBM and Canonical expand Hybrid Cloud Alliance as Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers Ubuntu OpenStack support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade support offering. Ubuntu OpenStack is the only OpenStack offered by a commercial Linux distributor that supports IBM Power Systems...

Canonical
19 September 2016


Canonical
22 August 2016

QTS and Canonical unveil private, fully managed OpenStack cloud

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OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, and LONDON, U.K. (August 22, 2016) – Responding to increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing)...

Canonical
22 August 2016


Ellen Arnold
9 August 2016

Professional support for Ubuntu now easier than ever

Article Cloud and server

Canonical’s professional support subscription Ubuntu Advantage (UA)—for cloud, server and desktop—is now even easier to purchase or renew with the launch of the UA store [buy.ubuntu.com]. UA helps organisations around the world to manage their Ubuntu deployments. It includes: Bug fixes & security updates, documentation,...

Ellen Arnold
9 August 2016


Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016

5 reasons you should only use certified images on the public cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. Not only is it the world’s number one platform for deployments of OpenStack (as we’ve covered here), it also runs more public cloud workloads than all other platforms combined. Fast, secure, and proven in the most demanding production environments, it is extremely popular with the...

Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016


Canonical
18 June 2015

Certified Ubuntu images now optimized for Joyent Triton containers

Article Cloud and server

Joyent Expands Triton Elastic Container Infrastructure Beyond Docker, Adds Support for Container-Native Linux on Bare Metal Partners with Canonical to provide certified and supported Ubuntu images, optimized to run natively on bare metal on Triton Infrastructure Containers Joyent Inc., the container-native...

Canonical
18 June 2015


Canonical
2 April 2015

Ubuntu, ARM and the public cloud

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu has a long history of interest and investment in supporting ARM-based hardware. Since our 10.04 release, Ubuntu has been fully compatible with the ARMv7 architecture, and in 2014 we were the first commercial Linux-based operating system to announce full support for the newly enabled 64-bit ARMv8 architecture....

Canonical
2 April 2015


Canonical
19 March 2015

Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

Article Cloud and server

Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like...

Canonical
19 March 2015


Canonical
2 September 2014

Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit

Canonical
2 September 2014


Canonical
11 December 2013

Ubuntu and HP: a successful team in the education sector

Article Desktop

Ubuntu and Hewlett-Packard have shipped over one and a half million laptops directly into education. These were bought by both individuals, and institutions. In India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh the government knows that investing in laptops and making them readily available to students is a powerful way to help...

Canonical
11 December 2013