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Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers, PaaS platforms, Big ...

Canonical
2 September 2014

Meeting evolving IT needs at the University of Nantes, France

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Challenge Universities have diverse computing needs. There are full-time students, part-time students, teaching staff, technical staff and administrators to consider – all with differing levels of experience and in some cases, long-held technology preferences. Identifying a desktop platform that everyone can accept is no easy feat. Agains ...

Luca Paulina
2 September 2014

Come and meet us at dConstruct

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu is sponsoring the dConstruct “Living with the network” event on the 5th of September at the Brighton Dome. Stop by for a chat with the team, grab some goodies and enter our competition for a chance to win an Ubuntu Phone. ...

Canonical
2 September 2014

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 and the cloud provider in question, but it’s something we are very proud of and a status we seek to maintain and grow. However, the spirit ...

Canonical
1 September 2014

BootStack – taking away the pain of cloud management

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

BootStack (short for: build, operate, and optionally transfer) is the new offering from Canonical to round up its cloud portfolio. Utilising their experience in working with some of the world’s leading telcos and enterprises to build OpenStack clouds, Canonical experts will design and build your OpenStack cloud in predictable time and on ...

Canonical
29 August 2014

Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in the Digital Networks and Computing category, which recognises organisations involved in computer hardware, software and networks, as well as their applications for social, security, p ...

Robin Winslow
28 August 2014

Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the first release day in a long time that the site didn’t crash under the load at some point during the day (huge credit to the infrastructure ...

Canonical
21 August 2014

Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an enterprise-grade cloud platform offering customers performance, reliability, and security for their cloud infrastructures. The relationship brings optimised and fully supported Ubuntu LTS images to ...

Canonical
20 August 2014

Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

“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 ...

Canonical
18 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability, almost 100% uptime, and the ability to scale infrastructure and services up and down quickly and easily. ...

Canonical
18 August 2014

Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical works with 7 of the world’s largest Telcos to roll out innovative cloud services for internal and external customers. In the past year, the portfolio of products and services Canonical ...

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