Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit

Article Cloud and server

Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs

Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014


Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Article Cloud and server

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision...

Mark Baker
13 May 2014


Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

Article Cloud and server

Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s...

Mark Baker
12 May 2014


Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical/Ubuntu enables instant NFV

Article Cloud and server

Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona next week is arguably the biggest event in the Telco and Operator calendar attracting upwards of 72,000 visitors. It is renowned as the venue where the leading vendors launch new devices and Ubuntu may or may not have some announcements of its own in this area. Less

Canonical
14 February 2014


Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

Article Cloud and server

The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack.

Mark Baker
22 November 2013


Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Server Ubuntu

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The...

Mark Baker
15 November 2013


Canonical
5 November 2013

Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability

Videos Cloud and server

Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live audience at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong.

Canonical
5 November 2013


Canonical
5 November 2013

Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options

News Cloud and server

Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. We’re launching the...

Canonical
5 November 2013


Mark Baker
17 October 2013

The open cloud future is here: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana

News Cloud and server

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us

Mark Baker
17 October 2013


Canonical
10 October 2013

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

News Cloud and server

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud...

Canonical
10 October 2013


Mark Baker
3 October 2013

OpenStack India Day and APAC Momentum

Article Cloud and server

Recently I had the privilege of presenting at OpenStack India Day in Bangalore. I was in great company, alongside speakers from SwiftStack, HP, the OpenStack Foundation and other key contributors to OpenStack. The conversations generated at the sold-out event covered a broad range of both technical and industry topics,...

Mark Baker
3 October 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


Canonical
29 August 2013

OpenStack primer

Article Cloud and server

This short document introduces you to OpenStack and its components, what you can change and customise, and why Ubuntu and OpenStack work so well together.

Canonical
29 August 2013


Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu OpenStack Jumpstart

Article Cloud and server

On-site Canonical engineers will help you deploy a reference cloud for your department or company, based on the same technologies that power the Rackspace and HP public clouds: Ubuntu and OpenStack. Ubuntu is the OS of choice for new clouds, both as host and guest. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has unparalleled...

Canonical
29 August 2013