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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

Cloud and server News

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge potential of this partne ...


Canonical
14 May 2014

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

Cloud and server Article

China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ub ...


Dustin Kirkland
13 May 2014

Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit

Cloud and server Article

Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs ...


Mark Baker
13 May 2014

Fast with an extra helping of faster

Cloud and server Article

Today AMD announced a set of industry benchmark performance records for hyperscale OpenStack running on Ubuntu OpenStack (Icehouse) and AMD’s SeaMicro SM15000™ system. The benchmarking, which is the largest known demonstration of OpenStack scalability ever, highlights how OpenStack can quickly and reliably provision on-demand computing. A ...


Mark Baker
12 May 2014

Ubuntu at OpenStack Atlanta

Cloud and server Article

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 exciting new development with Ubuntu OpenStack to show. As well as showcasing the new features in Ubuntu OpenStack, based on Ubuntu’s latest 14.04 LTS and OpenStack’s IceHouse, talking ab ...


Canonical
14 February 2014

Canonical/Ubuntu enables instant NFV

Cloud and server Article

Mobile World Congress (MWC) taking place in Barcelona next week is arguably the biggest event in the Telco and Operator calendar attracting upwards of 72,000 visitors. It is renowned as the venue where the leading vendors launch new devices and Ubuntu may or may not have some announcements of its own in this area. Less ...


Mark Baker
22 November 2013

Nearly 60% of OpenStack deployments use Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Foundation recently conducted a survey, asking their members about how they used OpenStack. ...


Mark Baker
15 November 2013

OpenStack Summit Hong Kong 2013: Interoperability and collaboration for a stronger OpenStack

Ubuntu Server

To paraphrase from Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the OpenStack Developer Summit last week in Hong Kong, building clouds is no longer exciting. It’s easy. That’s somewhat of an exaggeration, of course, as clouds are still a big choice for many enterprises, but there is still a lot of truth in Mark’s sentiment. The really interesting ...


Canonical
5 November 2013

Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability

Cloud and server Videos

Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live audience at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. ...


Canonical
5 November 2013

Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options

Cloud and server News

Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. We’re launching the programme with many ...


Mark Baker
17 October 2013

The open cloud future is here: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana

Cloud and server News

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us ...


Canonical
10 October 2013

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

Cloud and server News

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments will be released ...