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Fairbanks joins Cloud Partner Program

Dutch OpenStack experts, Fairbanks, is the latest organisation to join Canonical’s Cloud Partner Program. Fairbanks becomes another company in Canonical’s ranks of expert partners across Europe focused on reselling Canonical’s business proposition including Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack and tools like MAAS, Juju and Landsc

MWC 2015: a week to remember

As the lights go down on Mobile World Congress 2015, we’ve taken a bit of time to reflect on what has become one of our favourite events in the conference calender. And what a week it was! Congress touched every team within Canoncial and so here’s a bit of insight into what we did there:

Exploring Juju with Project Calico

Installing OpenStack is non-trivial. You need to install a large number of packages across a number of machines, get all the configuration synchronized so that all those components can talk to each other, and then hope you didn’t make a typo or other form of error that leads to a tricky-to-debug misbehaviour in OpenStack. For

Codership joins growing OpenStack Interoperability Lab community

Canonical is pleased to welcome Codership, creator of database clustering technology, Galera, to our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) program. Codership provides an essential building block for high availability databases in an OpenStack cloud environment. OpenStack provides a variety of excellent technology choices to enterprises loo

How to face the challenges of becoming a cloud operator

In a shifting market, the traditional revenues of telcos and service providers are under threat. Voice revenues are at an all-time low, and high wireless data costs are negatively impacting margins. As an additional challenge, many enterprises are moving low-value workloads and applications to public clouds such as Amazon, eroding traditi

How Ubuntu OpenStack makes the cloud work for telcos and SPs

Telcos and Service Providers expect near 100% uptime and the flexibility to scale their infrastructure up and down on-demand. This requires a proven cloud platform that minimises time-to-revenue and ensures predictable costs. Here’s why you should consider Ubuntu OpenStack for your next cloud project: Up to 75% of OpenStack clouds are bui

Make IT rain: public cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

Ubuntu OpenStack is the most trusted platform on which to build a public cloud. One of the best things about it is the ease of moving from a proof of concept or small lab-based deployment to a large, scalable, production one. In this brochure, we discuss some basics about running Ubuntu OpenStack for public clouds,

Building a private cloud? Taking the leap

In this whitepaper, you will read about moving your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud from the proof-of-concept stage to a production environment. It covers technical and organisational aspects, and gives you some best practices on running your Ubuntu OpenStack private cloud in production and making it future-proof. Download eBook

Making OpenStack Easy: QCT joins Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme

Canonical is pleased to announce the addition of QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology), a leading global datacenter solution provider, to its Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme. This extensive partnership includes QCT hardware certification on the Ubuntu OS, participation in Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) and the joint design, valid

Ubuntu at Mobile World Congress 2015

Three Reasons to visit Canonical @ Mobile World Congress 2015 Mobile World Congress 2015 is nearly upon us and, with a host of new demonstrations including the first shipping Ubuntu phones and a number of new cloud and IoT innovations, we’re looking forward to welcoming you to the booth (Hall 8.1 Booth F41). Here’s a

Juniper and Canonical partner on OpenStack cloud solutions for telcos

Juniper Networks and Canonical Partner to Deliver OpenStack-Based Cloud Solutions for the Telecommunications Industry Extended Partnership Provides Carrier-Grade, Scalable OpenStack Clouds for Telcos to Build IP Platforms that Support Network Functions Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking Solutions SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 26, 20

Gyrocom & Canonical lead the field for enterprises deploying OpenStack

IT infrastructure specialist Gyrocom has become an Ubuntu partner. It will deliver Canonical products Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack to its EMEA customers as part of its mission to drive efficiency, simplify and automate IT infrastructure. Graham Brown, Gyrocom’s MD comments, “This partnership is key in Gyrocom’s toolkit un

New Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals training sessions available

Coming up: training course in Utrecht, Netherlands We are pleased to announce availability of the Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training programme – designed for companies that have decided to use OpenStack, the world’s most powerful open cloud platform. This new training programme is an intensive 3-day hands-on course that will give you

Alliance Technology Group and Canonical bring Ubuntu OpenStack to telco and enterprise customers

Partnership will deliver OpenStack cloud solutions, and training based on the world’s most popular cloud operating system, Ubuntu. Hanover, MD – February 17, 2015 — Alliance Technology Group, a national solutions integrator that delivers scalable cost-effective infrastructure solutions to telecom and enterprise customers, has announced it

OpenStack needs you! Get voting for our ODS Vancouver talks!

We’ve submitted over 30 talks to the upcoming ODS in Vancouver and really need your help to make ensure they are included in the schedule. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk. The OpenStack Summit talk selection process is broken Speaker: Mark Baker Track: Community Building OpenStack is

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire datacentres in shipping cont