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Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

by John Dolen on 8 October 2015

Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the development of these […]

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Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy

by Canonical on 6 October 2015

If you work with big data, then you know there’s an expanding ecosystem of software to process and analyze, and monitor and manipulate your data. You probably don’t have time to manually install, configure, connect, and test all of the different software and services available. But what if someone else set it all up for […]

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Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

by Jorge O. Castro on 28 September 2015

Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback […]

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Realtime Syslog Analytics

by Kevin W Monroe on 24 September 2015

As Cory alluded to in our intro post, we’re excited to talk about a bundle that demonstrates an end-to-end Big Data solution: Realtime Syslog Analytics. Working with log data is a common Big Data task, and in this post, we’ll show how this bundle enables you to ingest, process, and visualize syslog data. This gives […]

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PC Power Control with a Raspberry Pi and MAAS

by Canonical on 23 September 2015

I recently decided to setup a small cluster of computers at home to be managed by Juju and MAAS. The computers are in the attic which meant that finger based power management was going to quickly lose its appeal. Many of my friends and colleagues have enviable home computer setups, with power control being done […]

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Why I like Juju….

by Canonical on 21 September 2015

  A long time ago Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) got in touch with us and asked if we’d like to bring Saiku to their new Juju platform. We were sceptical and semi agreed but ended up getting diverted to other stuff and never got started. Then a few months ago Canonical (still of Ubuntu fame) […]

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Write Juju Charms, we’ll pick up the tab

by Jorge O. Castro on 17 September 2015

I am happy to announce the start of Juju Charm Developer program. It’s a simple premise, if you are interested in working on Juju charms, we will pay for your cloud time on Amazon Web Services. All we ask is that you share this work with the community. Download and install Juju Visit developer.juju.solutions and fill […]

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The future of access networks

by Maarten Ectors on 16 September 2015

IoT, Docker, Big Data, Cloud, mobile apps, Video on Demand, etc. It seems like innovation is accelerating but without a roadmap, business plan or strategy. Google and co. seem to have their eye set on taking over the telecom business. Google’s global fiber network, SDN, Fiber, Fi, OnHub, Android, Hangout, Brillo, White Spaces Spectrum Dat […]

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5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

by Arturo Suarez on 1 September 2015

After the remarkable success of the recent OpenStack days in Taiwan, Seattle and Silicon Valley (Benelux is next, September 17th), and as we head towards the next OpenStack Design Summit in Tokyo, I feel it is a great time to give you the following piece of advice: You should learn OpenStack. The sooner, the better. Let me give you 5 reas […]