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Charm Partner Newsletter: November 2016
by Canonical on 15 November 2016
In this issue: Newest additions to the Charm partner programme Latest Juju charms Updating Clouds with Juju Details on the next Juju Charmer’s Summit Latest installment of our Scale Out webinar series Welcome to our newest partners! Netrounds is a programmable test and service assurance solution using software-based and traffic-generating […]
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Webinar: Secure, scale and simplify your OpenStack deployments
by Ellen Arnold on 11 November 2016
In our latest on-demand webinar, we explore how we can build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack, Juju and PLUMgrid. Arturo Suarez, Product Manager for BootStack at Canonical, and Justin Moore, Principal Solutions Architect, at PLUMgrid, discuss common issues users run into when running OpenStack at scale, and how t […]
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Webinar: Deploying Microsoft technologies on OpenStack
by Canonical on 31 October 2016
Watch On Demand In this webinar we explore the common challenges organisations face in deploying and managing Windows workloads at scale on OpenStack. We look at how Windows Charms can integrate seamlessly with existing Juju Charms to provide a powerful way to reduce workload deployments from days to minutes on both bare metal and public […]
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DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration
by Canonical on 19 October 2016
DataArt to deploy Juju for “Big Software” collaboration and faster project delivery Signed Charm Author partnership and SI extends partnership Juju Charm Ecosystem will be used in DataArt NFV Telco and Enterprise deployments to speed up project delivery DataArt will provide expertise and contribute to the development of Juju Charms NEW YO […]
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Canonical and ARM collaborate on OpenStack
by Canonical on 17 October 2016
Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers Availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade offering Partnership extends Canonical’s support for ARM server which dates back to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS CAMBRIDG […]
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Canonical releases Ubuntu 16.10
by Canonical on 13 October 2016
Ubuntu 16.10 released with Hybrid Cloud Operations and Unity 8 developer preview, from Canonical MAAS 2.0 delivers robust, highly-available IPAM and bare-metal provisioning Hybrid cloud operations with Juju 2.0 Developer preview of Unity 8 includes desktop, tablet and phone UX convergence OpenStack Newton with secure bare metal performanc […]
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Carleton University creates Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack, IBM
by Canonical on 12 October 2016
Carleton University Creates Campus Research Cloud with Ubuntu OpenStack running on IBM Power Systems Carleton Research Cloud offers rapid, self-service POWER compute resources for faster processing of scientific inquiries Canonical’s OpenStack is available on all IBM server platforms Juju and MAAS provide bare metal deployment and operat […]
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Big software has arrived
by Canonical on 3 October 2016
It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just buzz-words they are disrupti […]
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Cloud Chatter: September 2016
by Canonical on 30 September 2016
Welcome to our September edition. This month, We begin with Canonical introducing enterprise support for its own distribution of Kubernetes across public clouds and private infrastructure. Next up we give you a preview of what you can expect from us in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. We have details of our expanding partnership with IB […]
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Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio
by Canonical on 27 September 2016
Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process container’ loads LONDON […]
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Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack
by Charles Butler on 22 September 2016
Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all examples of Big Software. Gathering service metrics for […]
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Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud
by Canonical on 14 September 2016
Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with enterprise security updates Ubuntu Advantage support available through the Bigstep console CHICAGO, U.S and LONDON, U.K. Sept 14 – Bigstep, the big data cloud provider, and Canonical, the […]