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Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"


Canonical
29 October 2015

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, has announced the integration of its flagship Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology with Ubuntu OpenStack. Now, users can ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

Cloud and server Article

The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business drivers, and the purposes of why we’re building scalable clouds. Resonant Japan talked about accelerating business operations, cost reductions, and supporting the scalability of the thi ...


Arturo Suarez
28 October 2015

Canonical Completes MSP/Cloud Verify Certification for BootStack

Cloud and server Article

MSP/Cloud Verify Program offers vendor agnostic Certification for Cloud and Managed Services Practitioners Worldwide; Provides Quality Assurance, and Stamp of Reliability for Current, Potential Customers We are proud to announce today that Canonical has successfully completed the MSPAlliance’s MSP/Cloud Verify Program (MSPCV) certificatio ...


Mark Baker
28 October 2015

News from the Summit: Ubuntu extends lead in OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Foundation asked the community and the commuity has spoken. Ubuntu is the choice for OpenStack. The numbers don’t lie – Ubuntu leads in OpenStack and continues to gain momentum. Over 51% of all OpenStack clouds are based on Ubuntu Server and in large scale production OpenStack clouds with over 1000 users, Ubuntu represents ...


Canonical
28 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One

Cloud and server Article

Yesterday was our first full day here at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, and the themes seemed pretty clear. Increased focus on applications and containers – containers – containers. The best part about that is how validating it feels. We’ve been focused on improving the usability of containers for several years now, and that’s been realized in ...


Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

Cloud and server Article

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two ...


Mark Baker
22 October 2015

Join Canonical at the OpenStack Summit Tokyo

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo is nearly upon us, infact my Twitter stream is already filling up with messages from fellow conference attendees who have arrived early to see some of the sights in Tokyo. If you are lucky enough to be going to Tokyo for the OpenStack Summit be sure not to miss the ...


Canonical
6 October 2015

Managed Cloud Network Security from Zentera, Alliance and Canonical

Cloud and server News

Zentera Systems, Inc., Alliance Technology Group and Canonical jointly announced today a collaboration to deliver secure hybrid networking solutions on top of Canonical’s managed OpenStack cloud, BootStack. The three companies will be exhibiting this collaboration during AWS re:Invent 2015, this week at Zentera’s booth #K21 in Las Vegas, ...


James Donner
1 October 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: September 2015

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo coming up and we’ve been focused on container technology, expanding our list of Charm Partners and launching the BootStack Calculator. Look out for our upcoming webinar focusing on easy ways to deploy Big Data services. Check out the latest news below!   BootStack Calculator Our newly-launched BootStack Calcu ...


Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015

Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Cloud and server Article

As we’ve mentioned before, Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. OpenStack is, in fact, built on Ubuntu, and its cycles of development are based on Ubuntu’s release schedules. In the public cloud, Ubuntu as a guest OS has also proven to be the developers’ choice, with roughly two-thirds share of VMs on ...


Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts behind containers ...