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Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

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LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than...

Canonical
18 May 2015

What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?

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Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is shared filesystem, or simply “file storage”, which as the name implies offers to multiple clients the ability to access a single shared folder. The two most...

Canonical
18 May 2015

What is software-defined storage?

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What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability challenge: how do you connect multiple disk drives with producers and consumers of data while ensuring performance and durability — and furthermore, without...

Canonical
18 May 2015

Tom Callway
13 May 2015

IoT World: Snappy for Whitebox Switches

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Canonical announces snappy switches with Ubuntu Core and network function apps Penguin Computing the first to ship network switches with snappy Ubuntu Core Canonical today announces the availability of ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core on whitebox and OCP switches. Ubuntu Core is a high security platform with transactional updates,...

Tom Callway
13 May 2015

Canonical
12 May 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

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This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing

Canonical
12 May 2015

Canonical
7 May 2015

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

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The hSenid Cloud Telco Application Platform (Cloud TAP) is now available in Canonical’s Juju Charm Store. The Charm works with Juju from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Juju allows developers to design their application architecture like they would on a virtual whiteboard, with boxes for services, and lines to...

Canonical
7 May 2015

Samuel Cozannet
7 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 2

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In the first part of this two part blog we looked at why Canonical believes a new language is needed for modeling modern applications in the cloud. In this second blog we will apply these high-level concepts to build a modular and scalable sentiment analysis application with Juju, using components such as Kafka,...

Samuel Cozannet
7 May 2015

John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

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Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity...

John Zannos
6 May 2015

Samuel Cozannet
6 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

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Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of applications hasn’t changed that much. This has led to major inefficiencies in their design. In the first part of this two part blog, I will explain why Canonical...

Samuel Cozannet
6 May 2015

Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

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LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces,...

Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

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There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the

Canonical
6 May 2015

Canonical
5 May 2015

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

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The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be running within a Cloud environment where a meta-data source is provided. But since OVA is a virtualization appliance format, users have expressed some confusion as how they

Canonical
5 May 2015

Amrisha Prashar
1 May 2015

Ubuntu Online Summit

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Next week, from the 5th to 7th of May, another edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking off. Three days of sessions for developers, designers, advocates, users and all members of our diverse community. Along the developer-oriented discussions you’ll find presentations, workshops, lightning talks and much more. It’s...

Amrisha Prashar
1 May 2015

James Page
30 April 2015

Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release

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Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying and managing OpenStack on Ubuntu using Juju. Here are some selected highlights from this most recent charm release. OpenStack Kilo support As always, we’ve...

James Page
30 April 2015

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