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Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data

by Jorge O. Castro on 7 June 2016

Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this...

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

by Canonical on 6 June 2016

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms...

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

by Guest on 31 May 2016

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop...

Autopilot: benefits of early release

by Carla Berkers on 24 May 2016

OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the

Forrester Research report: accelerate your cloud expansion

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 16 May 2016

Cloud is now mainstream, but what’s holding it back, what are the biggest concerns of technology decision makers? Are industry leaders choosing public,...

eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 16 May 2016

Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is...

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

by Dustin Kirkland on 10 May 2016

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04...

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

by matt-c-irvine on 5 May 2016

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM...

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

by Christian Ehrhardt on 5 May 2016

DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality...

Security confinement in Ubuntu Core

by Gustavo Niemeyer on 4 May 2016

As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a...

Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar

by Dustin Kirkland on 27 April 2016

I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers. You can download the PDF here,...

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 25 April 2016

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for...