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Blog posts tagged
"Public cloud"


Tytus Kurek
27 May 2020

Hybrid cloud vs multi-cloud: what is the difference?

Cloud and server Article

Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud are two exclusive terms that are often confused. While the hybrid cloud represents a model for extending private cloud infrastructure with one of the existing public clouds, a multi-cloud refers to an environment where multiple clouds are used at the same time, regardless of their type. Thus, while the hybrid ...


Stephan Fabel
15 August 2019

Why multi-cloud has become a must-have for enterprises: six experts weigh in

Cloud and server Article

Remember the one-size-fits-all approach to cloud computing? That was five years ago. Today, multi-cloud architectures that use two, three, or more providers, across a mix of public and private platforms, are quickly becoming the preferred strategy at most companies. Despite the momentum, pockets of hesitation remain. Some sceptics are und ...


Canonical
1 November 2018

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes supported on Arm architecture

Canonical announcements Article

Today, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, announces that Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit Arm® v8-A architecture. The data centre is evolving to support new workload requirements, it is transforming to be optimised for workloads such as: 5 ...


Canonical
9 July 2018

Minimal Ubuntu, on public clouds and Docker Hub

Canonical announcements Article

Today we are delighted to introduce the new Minimal Ubuntu, optimized for automated use at scale, with a tiny package set and minimal security cross-section. Speed, performance and stability are primary concerns for cloud developers and ops. “The small footprint of Minimal Ubuntu, when deployed with fast VM provisioning from GCE, helps de ...


Canonical
2 July 2018

Evaluating the true cost of multi-cloud

Cloud and server Article

Title: Evaluating the true cost of multi-cloud Speakers: Stephan Fabel & Owen Rogers Date/Time: July 12, 12:00PM EST / 5:00PM BST This webinar will take a look at new insights into multi-cloud economics. Recently, analyst firm 451 Research highlighted savings gained from using Canonical’s managed private cloud as part of a diverse multi-c ...


Canonical
13 June 2018

451 Research benchmarks public and private infrastructure cost

Cloud and server Article

Independent Report highlights the TCO of Canonical’s managed private cloud in a diverse multi-cloud strategy and enterprise infrastructure portfolio 451 Research’s latest report, ‘Busting the myth of private cloud economics ’, found that Canonical’s managed private OpenStack offering, BootStack, delivers private cloud with a TCO that matc ...


Canonical
8 November 2017

Kernel Team Summary: November 7, 2017

Cloud and server Article

October 24 through November 06 Development (18.04) Every 6 months the Ubuntu Kernel Team is tasked to pick the kernel to be used in the next release. This is a difficult thing to do because we don’t definitively know what will be going into the upstream kernel over the next 6 months nor the quality ...


Canonical
12 October 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: October 12, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: [email protected] During the last week ...


Canonical
21 September 2017

Microsoft and Canonical Increase Velocity with Azure Tailored Kernel

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has long been a popular choice for Linux instances on Azure.  Our ongoing partnership with Microsoft has brought forth great results, such as the support of the latest Azure features, Ubuntu underlying SQL Server instances, bash on Windows, Ubuntu containers with Hyper-V Isolation on Windows 10 and Windows Servers, and much more. C ...


Adam Stokes
26 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: you like LXD? we like LXD. Put your floaties on and step up to the Helm!

Cloud and server Article

LXDWe’ve taken some preliminary steps in providing the user better feedback when wanting to deploy onto the localhost provider. If conjure-up isn’t able to talk to the same API endpoints Juju can then our probability of success is next to none.We do some fancy realtime UI updates so ...


Adam Stokes
19 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: aws native integration, vsphere <3, and ADDONS

Cloud and server Article

This cycle is aimed at bringing you closer to your cloud provider of choice, advanced configuration options, and to Just Do More with addons. ...


Canonical
9 May 2017

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

Canonical announcements Case study

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research hospitals, cultural institut ...