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Blog posts tagged
"cloud"


Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

Cloud and server News

Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have extended their collaboration by bundling the most innovative managed cloud services, based on Ubuntu reference architecture on QCT hardware. Canonical’s reference architecture is designe ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: What’s new for cloud users?

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu 15.04: OpenStack ready to roll with Kilo and first outing of Snappy Core Adds LXD, a new hypervisor with incredible density and speed First release of Snappy Ubuntu Core for cloud container hosts and smart devices OpenStack “Kilo” – Ubuntu leads with choice of SDNs, easy install and management Updated developer tools for cloud ...


Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds

Cloud and server Article

In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or PaaS environments. ...


Canonical
15 April 2015

PLUMgrid Joins Canonical Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server Article

Partnership will deliver validated interoperability with simpler and automated deployment for OpenStack clouds SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LONDON, April 15, 2015 — PLUMgrid, a leading innovator of virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack® clouds, has become an Ubuntu Cloud partner and a part of the Canonical OpenStack Interoperability Lab p ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Zabbix charms now available

Cloud and server Article

Zabbix is the latest graduate of the Charm Partner Programme, and we are excited to welcome their charms into the Juju Charms collection. Zabbix is is an enterprise-class open source distributed monitoring solution designed to monitor and track performance and availability of network servers, devices, services and other IT resources. Zabb ...


Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

Cloud and server News

Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef Chef and Ubuntu are ...


Canonical
9 April 2015

FortyCloud joins Canonical’s growing Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

FortyCloud,  a pioneer in network Security ­as ­a ­Service for the cloud, is the most recent member to join Canonical’s growing charm ecosystem. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the cli ...


Canonical
8 April 2015

Talligent has been Charmed!

Cloud and server Article

John Meadows, VP of Sales and Business Development at Talligent, writes about their motivations and experiences charming OpenBook. Let me start with a brief explanation of why we decided to Charm our application. Canonical is an important player in the Openstack cloud space with a leading distribution of Openstack.  Ubuntu is the most pop ...


Ellen Arnold
7 April 2015

AppScale charm now available

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that  AppScale is now available in the Juju charm store.  With 300 charms and growing, the Juju charm store is the destination for cloud-based enterprise applications. AppScale is an open source PaaS that leverages the Google App Engine APIs. It allows devs to quickly focus on the business logic of ...


Canonical
2 April 2015

Ubuntu, ARM and the public cloud

Cloud and server Article

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. Christian Reis, VP Hyp ...


Ellen Arnold
30 March 2015

DataArt join Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that DataArt, a technology consulting firm,  has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju; enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployment ...


Canonical
30 March 2015

Coho Data partners with Canonical for OpenStack Interoperability

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to welcome Coho Data, developer of the first flash-tuned scale-out storage architecture for private clouds, as an Ubuntu Cloud partner and to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Coho provides web-scale storage for the cloud generation; delivering unparalleled performance and simplified management at publ ...