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What IT directors should know about the economics of OpenStack
by Mark Baker on 3 January 2017
The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers, OpenStack, and microservices …
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Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches
by Tom Callway on 7 December 2016
Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a Supermicro reference architecture. Supermicro offers end-to-end green computing solutions for the data center …
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Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction
by Canonical on 1 December 2016
Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up development cycles and deliver code into testing or production environments much faster …
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conjure-up Canonical Kubernetes under LXD today!
by Adam Stokes on 21 November 2016
We’ve just added the Localhost (LXD) cloud type to the list of supported cloud type on which you can deploy The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. What does this mean? Just like with our OpenStack offering you …
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Kubernetes the easy way
by Jorge O. Castro on 17 November 2016
If you’re interested in running Kubernetes you’ve probably heard of Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes the Hard Way. Exercises like these are important, they highlight the coordination needed between components in modern stacks, and it highlights how far …
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Charm Partner Newsletter: November 2016
by Canonical on 15 November 2016
In this issue: Newest additions to the Charm partner programme Latest Juju charms Updating Clouds with Juju Details on the next Juju Charmer’s Summit Latest installment of our Scale Out webinar series Welcome to our newest …
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Webinar: Secure, scale and simplify your OpenStack deployments
by Ellen Arnold on 11 November 2016
In our latest on-demand webinar, we explore how we can build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack, Juju and PLUMgrid. Arturo Suarez, Product Manager for BootStack at Canonical, and Justin Moore, Principal Solutions Architect, …
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Webinar: Deploying Microsoft technologies on OpenStack
by Canonical on 31 October 2016
Watch On Demand In this webinar we explore the common challenges organisations face in deploying and managing Windows workloads at scale on OpenStack. We look at how Windows Charms can integrate seamlessly with existing Juju Charms …
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DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration
by Canonical on 19 October 2016
DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration and faster project delivery Signed Charm Author partnership and SI extends partnership Juju Charm Ecosystem will be used in DataArt NFV Telco and Enterprise deployments to speed up …
Canonical announcements
Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack
by Canonical on 17 October 2016
Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade offering Partnership extends Canonical’s support for …
Canonical announcements
Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by Canonical on 13 October 2016
Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, …
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Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM
by Canonical on 12 October 2016
Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER compute resources for faster processing of scientific inquiries Canonical’s OpenStack is available on all IBM …