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70 posts from 2014
Juju Machine View: more control at your fingertips
By Canonical, 26 September 2014
The Juju UI Engineering team has been hard at work on a whole new way to visualise your Juju deployments. Juju provides a unique perspective on your workloads...
Instant Big Data and other solutions
By Maarten Ectors, 3 September 2014
For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating...
Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack
By Canonical, 2 September 2014
It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source...
BootStack – taking away the pain of cloud management
By Canonical, 1 September 2014
BootStack (short for: build, operate, and optionally transfer) is the new offering from Canonical to round up its cloud portfolio. Utilising their experience...
Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF
By Canonical, 29 August 2014
We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in...
Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey
By Canonical, 20 August 2014
“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool...
Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers
By Canonical, 18 August 2014
As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability,...
Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack
By Canonical, 18 August 2014
Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical...
Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack
By John Dolen, 14 August 2014
Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as...
Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8
By John Dolen, 13 August 2014
IBM recently posted “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian...
The hybrid cloud would prefer you leave your interop inhibitions at the door
By Mark Baker, 6 August 2014
How will cloud adoption progress? If the results of this year’s Future of Cloud Computing Report from North Bridge are any indication, the answer is rapidly,...
Cloud 9 IDE now runs Ubuntu containers via Docker
By Canonical, 31 July 2014
As announced during the Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS release, Docker is now fully integrated with Ubuntu Server, available through a simple apt-get. Since then,...