Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Canonical
9 October 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack reference implementation

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform. Ubuntu is the reference operating system for the OpenStack project, which is why deploying OpenStack with Ubuntu is the best way to ensure a straightforward implementation. Ubuntu OpenStack contains all the current integrated OpenStack projects and some additional...

Canonical
9 October 2014


Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Article Cloud and server

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers,...

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014


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
18 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers

Article Cloud and server

As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability, almost 100% uptime, and the ability to scale infrastructure and services up and down quickly and easily.

Canonical
18 August 2014


John Dolen
14 August 2014

Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA v2) for Big Data and OpenStack.  Read this CVD to learn about setting up OpenStack on Ubuntu to...

John Dolen
14 August 2014


John Dolen
13 August 2014

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

Article Cloud and server

IBM recently posted  “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at...

John Dolen
13 August 2014


Mark Baker
31 July 2014

Voting begins for OpenStack Summit sessions in Paris

Article Cloud and server

Voting is now open for sessions to be run at the OpenStack ‘Kilo’ Summit in Paris in November. There have been hundreds of talk submissions, evidence if ever it were needed that the OpenStack ecosystem continues to grow apace. Canonical has hundreds of people working on OpenStack and our ecosystem of partners engaged with us

Mark Baker
31 July 2014


Mark Baker
22 July 2014

Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?

Article Cloud and server

Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in production clouds. Enterprises are skeptical of OpenStack’s ability to deliver a solid platform that is able to meet the availability, security and manageability demands of...

Mark Baker
22 July 2014


Canonical
4 July 2014

Ubuntu highlighted in IBM Systems Magazine

Article Cloud and server

IBM Systems Magazine caught up with us recently, for a discussion regarding Linux on Power – today, and heading into the future. As you may have seen from recent blogs and announcements, IBM and Canonical announced Ubuntu support for IBM’s POWER8 platform in April. This became available immediately upon POWER8...

Canonical
4 July 2014


John Zannos
1 July 2014

HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture

Article Cloud and server

Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This white paper provides the information HP clients need to start planning cloud deployments using OpenStack on Ubuntu with HP servers....

John Zannos
1 July 2014


Canonical
2 June 2014

Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.

Article Cloud and server

Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or...

Canonical
2 June 2014


Canonical
21 May 2014

Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with MAAS, Juju and Landscape This documentation has been created to describe best practice in deploying a production grade installation of OpenStack using current...

Canonical
21 May 2014


Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

News Cloud and server

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge...

Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014


Canonical
14 May 2014

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

Article Cloud and server

China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will...

Canonical
14 May 2014