Cloud and server archives
102 posts from 2014
Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre
By John Zannos, 30 September 2014
Hyperscale, scale out and cloud computing are the hot topics in the server space today. Driven by increasing Internet traffic, massive amounts of data and...
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...
Oracle and Canonical collaborate on support for Oracle Linux on Ubuntu
By John Zannos, 23 September 2014
Canonical and Oracle are collaborating to offer customers support for both Ubuntu and Oracle Linux as fully supported guests on one another’s respective...
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...
Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air
By Canonical, 21 August 2014
London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an...
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...