Cloud and server archives
180 posts from 2016
Snap interview with Rocket.Chat
By Michael Hall, 27 September 2016
Snap packaging has been gaining a lot of momentum recently, from desktop apps to cloud services, and everything in between. To learn more about the people and...
Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack
By Charles Butler, 22 September 2016
Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot...
Leostream joins Canonical’s Charm partner programme
By Ellen Arnold, 21 September 2016
Leostream Corporation, a leading developer of hosted desktop connection management software, has joined the Charm partner programme to facilitate the...
Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers
By Canonical, 19 September 2016
IBM and Canonical expand Hybrid Cloud Alliance as Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers Ubuntu OpenStack support included with Canonical’s...
Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud
By Canonical, 14 September 2016
Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with...
Deploying a Spark job using Juju
By Guest, 13 September 2016
Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool....
MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning
By Christian Reis, 8 September 2016
This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and...
Cloud Chatter: September 2016
By Canonical, 7 September 2016
Welcome to the latest issue of Cloud Chatter. This month, don’t miss: A look at Facebook’s new lab, testing software solutions including Juju and MAAS The...
Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju
By Guest, 4 September 2016
This quarter’s PLUG (Pentaho London User Group) headed to Canonical’s head office which is nicely located just behind the Tate Modern in London. I must admit...
Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab
By Canonical, 30 August 2016
Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand...
Conjure-up is magic!
By Brent Clements, 26 August 2016
There are few things that really get me excited when it comes to technology. But those that do can be classified as follows: Technology that makes my life...
25 years on and Linux is still going strong
By Jane Silber, 25 August 2016
I embarked on the Linux journey in 2004 when I joined the newly founded Canonical and its not-yet-named Ubuntu team. I knew there was incredible opportunity...