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Canonical
21 September 2015

Why I like Juju….

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  A long time ago Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) got in touch with us and asked if we’d like to bring Saiku to their new Juju platform. We were sceptical and semi agreed but ended up getting diverted to other stuff and never got started. Then a few months ago Canonical (still of Ubuntu fame)

Canonical
21 September 2015


Jorge O. Castro
17 September 2015

Write Juju Charms, we’ll pick up the tab

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I am happy to announce the start of Juju Charm Developer program. It’s a simple premise, if you are interested in working on Juju charms, we will pay for your cloud time on Amazon Web Services. All we ask is that you share this work with the community. Download and install Juju Visit developer.juju.solutions and fill

Jorge O. Castro
17 September 2015


Canonical
17 September 2015

Ubuntu nominated in V3 Technology Awards shortlist; cast your vote!

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We’re delighted to have been nominated for three V3 Technology Awards this year. It’s been a great year for us and so it’s fantastic to be recognised for our recent innovation. The sixth annual awards provides the opportunity for V3 readers to vote on the best business products and vendors of the year. The shortlist features

Canonical
17 September 2015


Maarten Ectors
16 September 2015

The future of access networks

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IoT, Docker, Big Data, Cloud, mobile apps, Video on Demand, etc. It seems like innovation is accelerating but without a roadmap, business plan or strategy. Google and co. seem to have their eye set on taking over the telecom business. Google’s global fiber network, SDN, Fiber, Fi, OnHub, Android, Hangout, Brillo, White...

Maarten Ectors
16 September 2015


Alexander Gallagher
10 September 2015

Rackspace joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

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Continuing to validate the importance of certified images in the cloud Ubuntu, the world’s most popular cloud operating system, has gained additional traction with Rackspace, a managed cloud leader. Rackspace and Canonical are excited to announce that Rackspace is joining the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) program....

Alexander Gallagher
10 September 2015


James Donner
1 September 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: August 2015

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September is fast approaching giving us a ‘back-to-school’ feeling. No time to spare, we’ve been focused on securing new partners for Juju, planning the upcoming Juju Charmer Summit as well as our popular Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course. We will be attending many events around the globe, demoing our Cloud...

James Donner
1 September 2015


Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

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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...

Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015


Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015

Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

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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...

Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015


Jorge O. Castro
24 August 2015

A midsummer night’s Juju Office Hours

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Our biweekly catchup of all things happening in the land of Juju. Here’s our summary of today’s session, first off, all the URLs we discuss during the list, followed by some handy shortcuts if you want to skip around this episode. https://github.com/juju/charmstore/blob/v5-unstable/docs/bundles.md...

Jorge O. Castro
24 August 2015


Canonical
24 August 2015

Deploying a Juju Cluster on Brightbox Cloud

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Juju is described as a state-of-the-art, open source, universal model for service oriented architecture and service oriented deployments. It takes the configuration scripts written in other tools and wraps them into a charm which can be deployed either with the Juju CLI tool or its GUI interface. And it’s really easy to...

Canonical
24 August 2015


Canonical
18 August 2015

AppFormix newest member of Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that AppFormix 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 at the click of a button. Juju makes it...

Canonical
18 August 2015


Canonical
17 August 2015

IO Visor Project Could Change Cloud Networking

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The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid are set to open source IO Visor technology The IO Visor is more than just a new networking technology, it’s a relatively new concept in how we lay the foundation for any new network technology altogether. Networking is rapidly evolving, with new protocols, new topologies and new designs...

Canonical
17 August 2015


Jane Silber
17 August 2015

IBM and Canonical plan Ubuntu support on IBM z Systems Mainframe

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  Today, at LinuxCon 2015 in Seattle, Canonical and IBM announced plans to create an Ubuntu distribution for LinuxONE and z Systems. The collaboration with Canonical brings Ubuntu scale-out and cloud expertise to the IBM z Systems platform, further expanding its reach and support. Our expansion of Ubuntu platform...

Jane Silber
17 August 2015


James Donner
14 August 2015

Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

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A key theme of IaaS is that Guests are what makes the compute part of IaaS interesting. And, as Dustin Kirkland suggests in his OpenStack Summit keynote, “It’s a variety of guests that keep it interesting” – like any decent party. We want to go to a party that has all sorts of crazy guests;

James Donner
14 August 2015