John Zannos

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available

by John Zannos on 22 April 2016

With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we now offer the same great Ubuntu experience on z Systems and LinuxONE servers as x86 and OpenPower platforms. Download...

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

by John Zannos on 19 April 2016

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS...

Canonical becomes founding member of Open Source MANO (OSM) group

by John Zannos on 22 February 2016

Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures

by John Zannos on 22 February 2016

Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create...

Microsoft announces first Technical Preview of Azure Stack with Ubuntu

by John Zannos on 26 January 2016

The cloud is about choice, portability and scale. I believe it is important for every element of the cloud ecosystem to support and expand both. Ubuntu is a...

OpenPOWER Foundation: Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

by John Zannos on 5 January 2016

Today, I am pleased to announce that I have accepted my nomination to be the new Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation. OpenPOWER represents a gigantic leap...

Ubuntu on Azure: Microsoft makes big decision on big data

by John Zannos on 28 September 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

by John Zannos on 6 May 2015

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are...

EMC partners with Ubuntu for OpenStack storage

by John Zannos on 4 November 2014

Canonical is pleased to announce an expansion of EMC’s participation as an Ubuntu Cloud Partner.  Today at the OpenStack Paris Summit, EMC announced two new...

PMC Joins Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab

by John Zannos on 3 November 2014

As the OpenStack ecosystem continues to grow rapidly, so too does our OpenStack Interoperability Lab. It tests and validates the interoperability of hardware...

Midokura joins OIL and opens MidoNet SDN

by John Zannos on 3 November 2014

Midokura, a network virtualisation specialist, has today joined the Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme. As part of this programme, Midokura’s MidoNet technology,...

Ubuntu with Redis Labs, Altera and IBM Power supply new NoSQL data store solution

by John Zannos on 10 October 2014

Big Data, scale and cloud are the big topics of technology today. Canonical with Ubuntu continues to drive innovation through commitment to openness and...