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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Dustin Kirkland
10 May 2016

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

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 LTS, entirely within LXD machine containers.  You can also download the PDF of the slide ...


Canonical
12 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

Cloud and server Article

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the world’s largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure ...


TaNeisha Page
6 April 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Ryan Beisner & James Wengraf

Cloud and server Article

This week we were able to catch up with Ryan Beisner who is an OpenStack QA Engineer. Ryan is super excited to share his experience with Canonical and his excitement about attending the OpenStack Summit. How long have you been with the company? I’m in my third year with Canonical.  In many ways, it has ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
1 April 2016

Infographic: OpenStack Interoperability Lab explained

Cloud and server Article

OIL (short for OpenStack Interoperability Lab) is an integration lab by Canonical, where we repeatedly test our cloud partners’ products, in countless Ubuntu OpenStack configurations. OIL demonstrates why our solution is trustworthy and the preferred choice over competing solutions. The infographic below introduces the basic facts about O ...


TaNeisha Page
24 March 2016

OpenStack Spotlight – Bill Bauman & Francisco Hernandez

Cloud and server Article

We caught up with Bill Bauman the Cloud Content Marketing Manager at Canonical to give us an insight into his work and his love for technology. What do you do at Canonical I came from a technical background, but at Canonical I run content and strategy for our cloud marketing team. That means I get ...


Chris Kenyon
23 March 2016

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

Cloud and server News

Tele2, one of Europe’s most innovative telecom operators, announced today that it will move its Network and IT infrastructure to the cloud to pave the way for future investment and network build out to 5G. This move puts Tele2 at the vanguard of the move to Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), a once in a generation change ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 March 2016

Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical

Cloud and server Case study

Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data centers in Amsterdam. Working with Canonical and choosing its managed cloud offering Bootstack as well as its service modelling tool Juju helped reduce time to service to minutes rath ...


Ellen Arnold
2 March 2016

Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8

Cloud and server Article

Create a competitive advantage with cognitive computing, and see how IBM has brought back innovation with the OpenPOWER foundation. Last week we attended IBM InterConnect 2016, where we showcased Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS and Juju on IBM Power Systems. There is a natural synergy between the POWER architecture and Ubuntu, as both are designed ...


Canonical
26 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

Cloud and server Article

Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There ...


Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT) services may be evol ...


Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Cloud and server Article

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to ...


Mark Baker
23 February 2016

Stop what you are doing and complete the OpenStack User Survey now

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack user survey is a key input into many decisions that are made in the OpenStack community: it helps determine which projects are prioritised by the Product Working Group and as well as shaping distributions like Ubuntu OpenStack.  So if you haven’d completed it please do so today: https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2 ...