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Your guest, your choice: running Windows Server on Ubuntu OpenStack

by Canonical on 2 September 2014

It is no secret that Ubuntu is by far the most popular cloud guest OS on the world’s major public clouds. Figures range from 55-75% depending on the source...

BootStack – taking away the pain of cloud management

by Canonical on 1 September 2014

BootStack (short for: build, operate, and optionally transfer) is the new offering from Canonical to round up its cloud portfolio. Utilising their experience...

Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air

by Canonical on 21 August 2014

London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an...

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...

Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers

by Canonical on 18 August 2014

As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability,...

Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack

by Canonical on 18 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical...

Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack

by John Dolen on 14 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as...

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...

CPLANE NETWORKS joins OIL

by Canonical on 12 August 2014

Our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) programme is currently testing and validating over 3,000 hardware and software configurations per month. We’re adding...

The hybrid cloud would prefer you leave your interop inhibitions at the door

by Mark Baker on 6 August 2014

How will cloud adoption progress? If the results of this year’s Future of Cloud Computing Report from North Bridge are any indication, the answer is rapidly,...

Cloud 9 IDE now runs Ubuntu containers via Docker

by Canonical on 31 July 2014

As announced during the Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS release, Docker is now fully integrated with Ubuntu Server, available through a simple apt-get. Since then,...

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju…

by Maarten Ectors on 31 July 2014

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju and now anybody can use the solution in minutes. Mid May Alan Quayle, the organiser of the...