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Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

by Canonical on 19 March 2015

Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like MAAS, Juju and Landsc […]

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Exploring Juju with Project Calico

by Canonical on 16 March 2015

Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to each other, and then hope you didn’t make a typo or other form of error that leads to a tricky-to-debug misbehaviour in OpenStack. For […]

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AppScale the newest member of the Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 9 March 2015

AppScale have joined the Charm Partner Programme. AppScale is an open source PaaS that leverages the Google App Engine APIs. It allows devs to quickly focus on the business logic of the application and frees your ops from unwieldy software stacks. AppScale gives enterprises the freedom to run Google App Engine applications across all publ […]

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New Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals training sessions available

by Cezzaine Zaher on 20 February 2015

Coming up: training course in Utrecht, Netherlands We are pleased to announce availability of the Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training programme – designed for companies that have decided to use OpenStack, the world’s most powerful open cloud platform. This new training programme is an intensive 3-day hands-on course that will give you […]

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Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

by Tom Callway on 19 February 2015

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu. This is […]

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Talligent’s OpenBook charm now available in the Juju Charm Store

by Ellen Arnold on 18 February 2015

Talligent, a member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme, has successfully completed its first charmed solution, OpenBook v2.5, which is now available in the Juju Charm Store.  OpenBook reliably solves the customer lifecycle of onboarding, self-service, and cloud billing or charge-back with minimal manual intervention. Using Juju Charms […]

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Vzzual join Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 3 February 2015

Canonical is excited to announce the addition of Vzzual to its Charm Partner Programme. Vzzual.com allows you to better understand your photo and video assets by offering an automated image tagging (image understanding), image processing, image hosting and image cloud backup service. Samuel Cozzannet, Strategic Programme Manager at Canoni […]

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hSenid Mobile joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

by Ellen Arnold on 2 February 2015

hSenid Mobile is the most recent addition to the growing Charm Partner Programme.  The programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployments and an easy way to deliver solutions in minutes. “We bel […]

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Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

by Jorge O. Castro on 28 January 2015

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire datacentres in shipping cont […]

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Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled

by Tom Haddon on 13 January 2015

In Canonical’s IS Department we use Juju for service orchestration. It’s a great tool for quickly spinning up complex services, tying them together and scaling them out or in as needed. We use it for everything from the ubuntu.com website itself to click-packages, the system that underpins the Ubuntu phone. We even use it to […]