Cloud and server
Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey
by Canonical on 20 August 2014
“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool for the first time. The incredible speed and smoothness with which Juju deploys and manages highly complex cloud applications is unrivalled and a well-known fact to anyone using Ubunt […]
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Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8
by John Dolen on 13 August 2014
IBM recently posted “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at IBM Impact. Check […]
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Dell/Canonical Whitepaper: Juju with KVM and LXC in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
by Canonical on 28 July 2014
This whitepaper, co-authored by Dell and Canonical,will show you how to easily deploy cloud services on a single Dell PowerEdge server or a laptop (if that’s all you have). It illustrates how easily you can take the cloud with you using Linux containers, virtualization and Juju orchestration software from Canonical. Though Juju is normall […]
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Ubuntu highlighted in IBM Systems Magazine
by Canonical on 4 July 2014
IBM Systems Magazine caught up with us recently, for a discussion regarding Linux on Power – today, and heading into the future. As you may have seen from recent blogs and announcements, IBM and Canonical announced Ubuntu support for IBM’s POWER8 platform in April. This became available immediately upon POWER8 availability in June, making […]
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HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture
by John Zannos on 1 July 2014
Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for OpenStack on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. This white paper provides the information HP clients need to start planning cloud deployments using OpenStack on Ubuntu with HP servers. For clients who are b […]
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Forgerock shows the future of instant identity integration with Juju
by Maarten Ectors on 18 June 2014
Forgerock, the leading unified open source identity solution provider, showed on the Identity Relationship Management Summit how Juju is changing the future of identity integration. In minutes their identity solution gets integrated with other charms. Traditionally companies would need months to integrate single sign-on solutions. Forgero […]
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Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality
by Maarten Ectors on 9 June 2014
At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs an IMS in 12 months […]
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Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.
by Canonical on 2 June 2014
Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or indeed deploying O […]
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Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS
by Canonical on 21 May 2014
This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with MAAS, Juju and Landscape This documentation has been created to describe best practice in deploying a production grade installation of OpenStack using current Canonical technologies, […]
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Cloudbase Solutions partnership
by Dustin Kirkland on 20 May 2014
We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge potential of this partne […]
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NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer
by Canonical on 14 May 2014
China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ub […]
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Ubuntu announcements from the Atlanta OpenStack Summit
by Dustin Kirkland on 13 May 2014
Atlanta, Tuesday May 13th 2014 Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, made several announcements on stage at the OpenStack Summit today. The themes of the Summit so far have been set by the SuperUsers – users of OpenStack who have been helping shape the development of OpenStack to ensure it better meets the needs […]