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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Canonical
9 June 2015

teuto.net uses Ubuntu to bring IBM POWER8 to thepublic cloud

Cloud and server Case study

The German IT company teuto.net specializes in providing linux, hosting, cloud and web development services. In 2014, teuto.net created the brand “teutoStack“ for offering a wide range of services for customers interested in OpenStack cloud technology. In addition to consulting, training, operating and support services for private clouds, ...


Canonical
3 June 2015

Cisco and Canonical Collaborate on Policy-Based OpenStack Clouds

Cloud and server News

Canonical is pleased that Cisco, developer of the Application Centric Infrastructure is joining the Ubuntu Cloud OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). Cisco implements application policy as part of OpenStack Group Based Policy (GBP) and the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) – delivering application policies to impr ...


Tom Callway
29 May 2015

Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs

Cloud and server White paper

OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as carrier Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions. Canonical and Juniper’s technology alliance partnership make it easy to choose products in building open cloud solutions free of ...


Canonical
27 May 2015

Introducing pylxd

Cloud and server Article

In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to various people involved in the LXD project, I have decided to split this part of nova-compute-lxd into its own project called pylxd. Pylxd is a ...


Canonical
21 May 2015

StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

Cloud and server News

StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of solutions designed to make the cash flow profile of on-premise managed cloud solutions match those of the public cloud. These offerings include a number of flexible options for align ...


Canonical
19 May 2015

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

Cloud and server Article

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed and deployed. The upending of these long held tenets of Enterprise IT are happening simply due to the innovation brought on by OpenStack and a handful of other successful open ...


Tom Callway
13 May 2015

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

Cloud and server Article

Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core Canonical today announces the availability of ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core on whitebox and OCP switches. Ubuntu Core is a high security platform with transactional updates, offering a choice o ...


Canonical
12 May 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Article

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing ...


John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

Cloud and server Article

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity of creating and depl ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Article

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...


James Page
30 April 2015

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

Cloud and server Article

Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve enabled charm support for ...


Mark Baker
22 April 2015

Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!

Cloud and server Article

Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term Support (LTS) release and a year before the next LTS so represents a milestone in which we bring in and start to settle down features we want ...