Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

by Canonical on 6 June 2016

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for OpenStack operations   […]

Building a nervous system for OpenStack

by Guest on 31 May 2016

Big Software is a new class of software composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all byproducts of Big Software. The only way to address the complexity is with automatic, AI-powered analytics. Summary Canonical and Skymind a […]

Making deep learning accessible on Openstack

by Samuel Cozannet on 25 April 2016

This week at the Openstack Developers Summit we are excited to showcase how Canonical with IBM, Mesosphere, Skymind and Data Fellas are working together to make the opportunities of deep learning easier for everyone to access. Deep learning is a completely new way of building applications. These applications, built around neuronet models […]

Mesosphere announce open source project backed by Canonical

by John Zannos on 19 April 2016

Today Mesosphere announced the open source release of the DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) Project, backed by dozens of partners including Canonical. DC/OS supplies an operating system model for the datacenter building on the Apache Mesos environment. The DC/OS project is an open source technology and a building ecosystem of more than […]

Charm 2.0 makes it even easier to publish charms

by Marco Ceppi on 16 April 2016

TL;DR There is a new package (and command) called charm that compliments the previous charm-tools package and provides a new way forward for managing charms and […]

ScaleDB joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 13 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

by Canonical on 12 April 2016

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 […]

NFLabs joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 31 March 2016

credativ joins the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 24 March 2016

MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet

by Canonical on 23 March 2016

  For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies in the world in Hall 3, but our big, beautiful stand was the best yet; showing off our latest innovation perfectly. Mobile World Congress was the perfect place to […]

Tele2 begins major shift to cloud with Canonical

by Chris Kenyon on 23 March 2016

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 […]

Renting bare-metal (as a Service) with MAAS

by Christian Reis on 15 March 2016

With the amount of industry excitement around virtualized cloud, it is easy to downplay the importance of directly utilizing bare metal infrastructure. And yet bare-metal is the one thing every experienced operator knows they can rely on when deploying mission-critical services, representing guaranteed resource, predictable performance, a […]