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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Ellen Arnold
10 February 2016

Federal Government experts Awnix join Canonical’s Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to welcome OpenStack solution provider Awnix to its Reseller Programme.  Awnix provides OpenStack solutions tailored to the US federal government.  Awnix is led by a team of technology experts with decades of experience serving the government and corporate markets. Awnix’s founders are former Federal data center archi ...


John Dolen
28 January 2016

IBM LinuxONE gets its Juju

Cloud and server Article

This week, via press release, IBM continued its launch of the LinuxONE family of high performance Linux systems. In August, we joined IBM with their launch of LinuxONE, announcing our intent to support the new systems starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release (code named Xenial Xerus). This will bring LinuxONE clients the same Ubuntu experie ...


Canonical
6 January 2016

New Year, New Data

Cloud and server Article

Happy New Year, everybody! I hope everyone had a chance to take a break over the holiday season. At Canonical, we generally take a break the last week of the year. It gave me a chance to catch up on some shows I’d recorded to watch later. Upon returning to our duties this week, we ...


Tom Haddon
10 December 2015

Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers

Cloud and server Article

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including OpenStack, Inkscape & MySQL. There are two main data stores in Launchpad. The first is the Librarian, which is a 22TB object store using OpenStack’s Swift as its backend. The second ...


James Donner
9 December 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: Charm Evolution

Cloud and server Article

Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack solution at full scale on a public cloud or just want to deploy services on your own private OpenStack cloud, Juju is the perfect solution. At Canonical, we have a team working to ensure that Juju works across all combinations of OpenStack. Join one of our OpenStack QA ...


Canonical
24 November 2015

Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Case study

London-based Opus 2 International is an independent software and services provider specialising in technology for the legal profession. Opus 2’s flagship service, Magnum™, is built entirely on Ubuntu OpenStack and has dramatically simplified the way in which legal evidence is managed: Opus 2 Magnum™ users report 66% reduction in costs; 32 ...


James Donner
20 November 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: Designing For Success

Cloud and server Article

In our next video, watch Marco Ceppi, a prolific Juju Charmer, deliver a follow-up to Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. This one is entitled “Designing For Success.” This talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the pieces that make Juju magic happen. We recommend that anyone interested in writing Charms or the process of charming watch t ...


Jay R. Wren
10 November 2015

Converting eth0 to br0 and getting all your LXC or LXD onto your LAN

Cloud and server Article

Wayne has a great post on the new juju lxd work. I’ve been using it a bit and it is awesome. It is super fast and I can create and destroy environments faster than creating and destroying with juju-local. One thing which I’ve done which has made all LXC and LXD instances more valuable to … Continue reading Converting eth0 to br0 and getti ...


dimitern
8 November 2015

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Cloud and server Article

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed on read more » ...


Canonical
30 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

Cloud and server Article

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature highlighted keynote sessions like days one and two. But it did have an entire Canonical track schedule, which kicked off with Mark Shuttleworth talking about why we build ...


Randall Ross
29 October 2015

Everyone Can Have a New “Datacenter” Right Now, Even You!

Cloud and server Article

A (new) datacenter? Me? Really? Why would I want that? Answer 1: Because if you’re an individual, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved by consuming one more app from a store. Answer 2: Because if you’re a company, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved economically (if at all) by ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, has announced the integration of its flagship Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology with Ubuntu OpenStack. Now, users can ...