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John Dolen
8 October 2015

Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

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Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the...

John Dolen
8 October 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 October 2015

BootStack managed cloud factsheet

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BootStack, is a the fully managed cloud offer from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. BootStack is a true end to end offer including the design, implementation, and ongoing management of an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu, followed by an optional transfer of the management function to the customer if desired. The cloud...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 October 2015


Canonical
6 October 2015

Managed Cloud Network Security from Zentera, Alliance and Canonical

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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...

Canonical
6 October 2015


Canonical
6 October 2015

Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy

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If you work with big data, then you know there’s an expanding ecosystem of software to process and analyze, and monitor and manipulate your data. You probably don’t have time to manually install, configure, connect, and test all of the different software and services available. But what if someone else set it all up for

Canonical
6 October 2015


Tom Callway
5 October 2015

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

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Stephane Graber gave this talk at the recent Container Camp event on Sept 11th, 2015 at the Barbican Centre, London. He is a long time Open Source user and contributor mostly involved in the Edubuntu project, Ubuntu itself and LTSP. He is also the project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical.

Tom Callway
5 October 2015


James Donner
1 October 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: September 2015

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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...

James Donner
1 October 2015


Canonical
30 September 2015

PLUMGrid’s Open Networking Suite now available in the Charm Store

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Canonical, the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise, and PLUMgrid, the industry leader for secure and scalable virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds, today announced PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) charms are now available in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and...

Canonical
30 September 2015


Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

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Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback

Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015


Canonical
28 September 2015

Engineering Group joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that Engineering Group, leading Italian software and service company that manages and develops SpagoBI suite, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling...

Canonical
28 September 2015


Canonical
25 September 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Redis Labs

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Canonical is excited to announce that Redis Labs has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. Juju makes it...

Canonical
25 September 2015


Kevin W Monroe
24 September 2015

Realtime Syslog Analytics

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As Cory alluded to in our intro post, we’re excited to talk about a bundle that demonstrates an end-to-end Big Data solution: Realtime Syslog Analytics. Working with log data is a common Big Data task, and in this post, we’ll show how this bundle enables you to ingest, process, and visualize syslog data. This gives

Kevin W Monroe
24 September 2015


Canonical
23 September 2015

PC Power Control with a Raspberry Pi and MAAS

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I recently decided to setup a small cluster of computers at home to be managed by Juju and MAAS. The computers are in the attic which meant that finger based power management was going to quickly lose its appeal. Many of my friends and colleagues have enviable home computer setups, with power control being done

Canonical
23 September 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
23 September 2015

Infographic: LXD Machine containers from Ubuntu

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LXD (pronounced “lex-dee”) is a container hypervisor from Ubuntu. LXD containers look and act like virtual machines, but have the lightweight performance and scalability of process containers. You can use LXD on its own to deploy traditional workload applications, or you can use Docker containers inside LXD containers...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
23 September 2015


James Donner
22 September 2015

Big Data Contest at Strata + Hadoop World

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Strata + Hadoop World New York City is going to be a big week for big data. Canonical are proud to be exabyte sponsors for the upcoming event. If you’re coming to Strata + Hadoop World, don’t forget to visit our booth and discover the wonders of Juju. Juju is our service modelling tool that

James Donner
22 September 2015