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Guest
4 February 2016

From the trenches: Juju ‘Management’ Camp

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Okay it’s a lie, it was really Config Management Camp, but I was really only there for one purpose. Over the years as a small tech company we have tried a number of automation systems for our server and the honest truth, is that unless you have a dedicated sys admin and people running your

Guest
4 February 2016


Canonical
3 February 2016

Juju Charmer Summit Update

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Author Tom Barber is the Technical Director of Canonical Charm Partner Meteorite Consulting.  He is currently attending the Juju Charmer’s Summit in Ghent, Belgium.   Juju Management Camp Day 1 Okay it’s a lie, it was really Config Management Camp, but I was really only there for one purpose. Over the years as a small

Canonical
3 February 2016


James Donner
3 February 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: DataStax

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Mobile World Congress is weeks away, and we can’t wait to demonstrate the power of Ubuntu on OpenStack alongside the capabilities of NFV. In the meantime, we’re taking a deep dive into innovative telecom focused applications that can be easily enabled with our services modeling tool Juju. TeleStax provides Open Source...

James Donner
3 February 2016


Rebecca Cradick
2 February 2016

Sanjay Sinha from Oracle on Cloud adoption and working with Canonical

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Sanjay Sinha, Vice President of Platform Products at Oracle speaks to Alexander Gallagher, Business Development for Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud on the drivers behind cloud adoption. Alexander: What do you think are the biggest barriers facing enterprises when it comes to cloud adoption? Sanjay: The barriers have...

Rebecca Cradick
2 February 2016


Canonical
31 January 2016

Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

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This is part 4 of my ongoing “Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju” series. The last post, MAAS Setup: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju, described the steps to deploy MAAS 1.9 itself and configure it with the fabrics, subnets, and VLANs we need to deploy OpenStack. In this post we’ll finish the MAAS...

Canonical
31 January 2016


James Donner
29 January 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: DataArt

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Telecom operators currently need months to deploy new value added services to production. Not any more! Take a look into how DataArt is using Juju, Docker and other Webscale technologies and applying them to the telecom world. You can deploy a telecom solution in minutes, auto-scale it and change services even while a...

James Donner
29 January 2016


James Donner
29 January 2016

Canonical Cloud Chatter: January 2016

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Happy New Year! This January we’ve been busy with the release of Juju GUI 2.0 and MAAS 1.9 whilst getting ready for Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona in February. As always, catch up on our partner news, download our brand new eBook and enjoy this month’s video – a presentation about the Juju app

James Donner
29 January 2016


John Dolen
28 January 2016

IBM LinuxONE gets its Juju

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This week, via press release, IBM continued its launch of the LinuxONE family of high performance Linux systems. In August, we joined IBM with their launch of LinuxONE, announcing our intent to support the new systems starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release (code named Xenial Xerus). This will bring LinuxONE clients the...

John Dolen
28 January 2016


Canonical
27 January 2016

Canonical teams with Oracle to drive enterprise cloud adoption

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Collaboration to drive innovation and flexibility into enterprise cloud deployments Ubuntu Certified Images now available on Oracle Cloud Marketplace Running development and production on Ubuntu can remove migration and engineering costs Canonical today announced that it is working with Oracle to provide enterprises...

Canonical
27 January 2016


John Zannos
26 January 2016

Microsoft announces first Technical Preview of Azure Stack with Ubuntu

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The cloud is about choice, portability and scale. I believe it is important for every element of the cloud ecosystem to support and expand both. Ubuntu is a critical part of delivering on choice for the cloud by supplying a consistent Ubuntu experience to developers and user regardless on which public or private cloud they

John Zannos
26 January 2016


James Donner
26 January 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: Intro

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In this blog series, we’ll be running through presentations featured during the Dangerous Demos session at TADsummit to show you how the next great innovations in telecom applications are only a click away with Juju. Stay tuned for more stories over the next few weeks as we approach Mobile World Congress. From big data to web

James Donner
26 January 2016


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
25 January 2016

Released: Juju GUI 2.0

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We are really happy to announce availability of the new and shiny beta version of Juju GUI 2.0 with completely redesigned and rewritten user interface and improved user experience. The new GUI introduces: redesigned canvas, relation management and charm handling with the new inspector improved integration with the charm...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
25 January 2016


Canonical
21 January 2016

Introduction: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

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In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed on

Canonical
21 January 2016


Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

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Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware...

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016