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"OpenStack"

Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team is responsible for ...

James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of new machines with ...

Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
30 July 2015

ODS Video: Making Large-scale Data Centre Deployment Easy With MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Why has cloud computing been so successful? Arguably, it’s the 70s-style pay-as-you-go model of computing that allows companies a low-cost way to build a cloud from zero. More importantly, it’s how the cloud solves the problem of quick machine deployment in fast-paced business environments – provisioning a new PC in minutes. But what if y ...

Mark Baker
27 July 2015

Voting begins for OpenStack Tokyo talks

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Tokyo in Vancouver. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Creating business value with cross cloud infrastructure Speaker: Mark Shuttleworth Track: Enterprise IT Strategies Building an OpenS ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

ODS Video: Driving quality control into OpenStack cloud development

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 for cost-effective, ...

Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Announcing Benchmarking with Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 handle this? It’s no ...

Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Juju Quickstart 2.2.0

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 support for ...

Canonical
18 June 2015

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 the leading supplier ...

Corey Bryant
17 June 2015

Deploying OpenStack from source to scalable multi-node environments

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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, private/public clo ...

Canonical
11 June 2015

Mark Shuttleworth’s ODS Vancouver Keynote

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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, innovation and opi ...

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