Cloud and server archives
102 posts from 2014
Fast with an extra helping of faster
By Mark Baker, 13 May 2014
Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro...
Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta
By Mark Baker, 12 May 2014
Canonical has been at every OpenStack Summit contributing to its success. The Juno Summit in Atlanta is no exception and as with previous events we have...
Ubuntu scale out and cloud partner ecosystem expands with IBM POWER8
By John Zannos, 28 April 2014
Public and private cloud adoption has continued to grow, and Canonical has been at the forefront, focusing on scale out and cloud architectures. We have built...
What’s new in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS?
By Canonical, 17 April 2014
Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, which goes live today, is the third Ubuntu LTS release designed for cloud. After more than four years, we finally see the cloud...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice
By Canonical, 15 April 2014
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the platform for scale; delivers any workload on any substrate Telcos and cloud service providers trust Ubuntu for OpenStack and public...
OpenStack+VMware deployment stories: webinar Q&A
By Canonical, 11 April 2014
Canonical and VMware recently ran a joint webinar in which we shared customer stories from OpenStack+vSphere deployment projects. The webinar was a huge...
Adding hardware support to MAAS
By Canonical, 9 April 2014
MAAS and power MAAS, or Metal as a Service, is a tool for treating physical servers similarly to cloud resources. It lets you take a pile of hardware and...
New committee to make cloud services instantly safer
By Canonical, 28 March 2014
A few months ago, Canonical started to work with a set of partners to address the challenges around single sign-on for new services within an organisation. We...
Latest from the web team — March 2014
By Inayaili de León Persson, 27 March 2014
Spring has officially (but not technically…) arrived, and we’re getting busier and busier in preparation for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release next month. In the last...
Customer stories from OpenStack+VMware projects
By Canonical, 18 March 2014
Tuesday, 18th March — 15:00 GMT/10:00 EST In this webinar, Dave Russell, Head of Sales Engineering at Canonical, and Ramiro Salas, Global Technology...
Q&A on OpenStack + VMware
By Canonical, 17 March 2014
We recently held a webinar on “Architecting OpenStack in your enterprise” together with Gigaom, which produced quite a lot of buzz. Our many attendees had a...
Juju bundles and Quickstart: create a cloud environment in seconds
By Canonical, 17 March 2014
A few years ago, the cloud team at Canonical decided that the future of cloud computing lies not only in what clouds are built on, but what runs on it, and...