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All you need to know about designing, building and managing your Openstack private cloud, Kubernetes cluster or Ubuntu Server scale‑out deployment.
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So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
by Canonical on 3 June 2015
Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of...
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Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs
by Tom Callway on 29 May 2015
OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as...
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Introducing pylxd
by Canonical on 27 May 2015
In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to...
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Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support
by Canonical on 21 May 2015
Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that...
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StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics
by Canonical on 21 May 2015
StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of...
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The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?
by Canonical on 19 May 2015
The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed...
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LXD crushes KVM in density and speed
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based...
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What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is...
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What is software-defined storage?
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability...
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IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches
by Tom Callway on 13 May 2015
Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core...