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Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

ODS Video: Driving quality control into OpenStack cloud development

Videos Cloud and server

How do we make sure Ubuntu offers the best possible ecosystem of both hardware and software components for OpenStack? Chris Kenyon talks about how we’re driving quality into the OpenStack deployment journey in the latest of our OpenStack Summit keynotes. As the cloud landscape matures, enterprise customers are looking...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Announcing Benchmarking with Juju

Article Cloud and server

Benchmarking and performance are interesting problems, especially in today’s growing cloud-based microservice scene. It used to be a question of “how does this hardware compare to that hardware,” but as computing and service-oriented architectures grow the question has evolved. How does my cloud and application stack...

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Juju Quickstart 2.2.0

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce the 2.2.0 release of Juju Quickstart! Juju Quickstart helps both new and experienced users to quickly start Juju and the Juju GUI, whether they’ve never installed Juju or they have an existing Juju environment running. From the last update on this blog, we introduced several new features like...

Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Canonical
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments. Mellanox is...

Canonical
18 June 2015

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Article Cloud and server

The Juju OpenStack charms now have support for deploying OpenStack from source! This means that you can point the charms at the OpenStack git repositories/branches of your choice, whether they’re the well known upstream repos or your own modified repos, and deploy to your choice of substrate via Juju (to metal via MAAS,...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

Videos Cloud and server

This year’s OpenStack Summit was the most successful yet; playing host to a record number of exhibitors who excited and inspired over 5,000 visiting delegates. During the course of the week, attendees were treated to a host of keynotes, breakout session and track day presentations; aimed to bring the latest news, views,...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Clearwater and Juju

Article Cloud and server

Like our sister project, Calico, we on the Project Clearwater team have been using Juju for some of our orchestration needs. In this blog post, I’m going to talk about what Juju is, why it’s a good fit for IMS orchestration, and what we’ve done recently on our Juju charms. Both the Calico blog linked

Canonical
11 June 2015

Canonical
10 June 2015

Objectif Libre joins the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that Objectif Libre, the company behind CloudKitty, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at...

Canonical
10 June 2015

Canonical
9 June 2015

teuto.net uses Ubuntu to bring IBM POWER8 to thepublic cloud

Case study Cloud and server

The German IT company teuto.net specializes in providing linux, hosting, cloud and web development services. In 2014, teuto.net created the brand “teutoStack“ for offering a wide range of services for customers interested in OpenStack cloud technology. In addition to consulting, training, operating and support services...

Canonical
9 June 2015

Canonical
3 June 2015

Cisco and Canonical Collaborate on Policy-Based OpenStack Clouds

News Cloud and server

Canonical is pleased that Cisco, developer of the Application Centric Infrastructure is joining the Ubuntu Cloud OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). Cisco implements application policy as part of OpenStack Group Based Policy (GBP) and the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) – delivering...

Canonical
3 June 2015

Tom Callway
29 May 2015

Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs

White paper Cloud and server

OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as carrier Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions. Canonical and Juniper’s technology alliance partnership make it easy to choose products in building open cloud...

Tom Callway
29 May 2015

Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

Article Cloud and server

In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to various people involved in the LXD project, I have decided to split this part of nova-compute-lxd into its own project called pylxd. Pylxd is a

Canonical
27 May 2015

Canonical
21 May 2015

StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

News Cloud and server

StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of solutions designed to make the cash flow profile of on-premise managed cloud solutions match those of the public cloud. These offerings include a number of...

Canonical
21 May 2015

Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Article Cloud and server

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other...

Canonical
19 May 2015

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