Cloud and server archives
180 posts from 2016
What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up
By Adam Stokes, 9 June 2016
Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or...
LXD 2.0: LXD and Juju [10/12]
By Stéphane Graber, 8 June 2016
Juju is Canonical’s service modeling and deployment tool. It supports a very wide range of cloud providers to make it easy for you to deploy any service you...
Apache Bigtop and Juju: a charming approach to big data
By Jorge O. Castro, 7 June 2016
Juju users have been enjoying our collection of Big Data charms for over two years. During this time, we’ve learned a lot about what our users want from this...
Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations
By Canonical, 6 June 2016
Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms...
Building a nervous system for OpenStack
By Guest, 31 May 2016
Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop...
Autopilot: benefits of early release
By Carla Berkers, 24 May 2016
OpenStack is the leading open cloud platform, and Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. Over the
Forrester Research report: accelerate your cloud expansion
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 16 May 2016
Cloud is now mainstream, but what’s holding it back, what are the biggest concerns of technology decision makers? Are industry leaders choosing public,...
eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF
By Alexia Emmanoulopoulou, 16 May 2016
Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is...
Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack
By Dustin Kirkland, 10 May 2016
Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04...
What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?
By matt-c-irvine, 5 May 2016
IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM...
The new simplicity to consume DPDK
By Christian Ehrhardt, 5 May 2016
DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality...
Security confinement in Ubuntu Core
By Gustavo Niemeyer, 4 May 2016
As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a...