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OpenStack distros: How to choose the right one?

Choosing the right OpenStack distribution is essential to the success of an OpenStack project at every organisation. When selecting one, organisations should always follow certain criteria. Is it possible to operate the considered OpenStack distros economically? How easy is it to deploy them? Can the organisation upgrade its production Op

Update: Canonical managed services and Ubuntu support during COVID-19 outbreak

SUMMARY Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elastic, Postgres and other open source stacks, are operating at full SLA. Ubuntu and broader open source support services are unaffected and our teams have adjusted schedules to allow for colleagues to be out sick while maintaining full coverage in the months to come.  Secur

SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud

SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250 companies, and 6,000 employees. To increase time to market and meet heavy client requirements, SBI BITs was looking for alternative solutions beyond bare metal servers and decided upon

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem, upskilling operations

OpenStack Charms 20.02 – CephFS backend for Manila and more

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 20.02. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. CephFS backend for Manila The OpenStack Charms 20.02 release introduces support for Ceph File System (CephFS) to be used as stora

OpenStack vs VMware: Bringing costs down

Moving to OpenStack from VMware can significantly reduce the TCO associated with an initial roll-out and ongoing maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. OpenStack vs VMware economic analysis shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible to bring the costs down by an entire order of magnitude. This requires choosing an OpenStack

Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds

Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully deployed OpenStack d

Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019: the highlights

The Canonical team is getting back from the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai 2019 with a lot of excitement and a fresh view on the key projects from the OpenStack Foundation including OpenStack and Kata containers. Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai: Keynotes OpenStack remains a big thing and its adoption is constantly growing. Accord

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS (infrastructure as a service)

OpenStack Charms 19.10 – Train, Policy Overrides and more

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.10. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. To learn more about Charmed OpenStack, visit our page. OpenStack Train This release introduces support for OpenStack Train on Ubu

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance.  “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the desktop to become the pla

OpenStack Charms 19.07 – Percona Cluster Cold Start, DVR SNAT and more

Canonical is proud to announce the availability of OpenStack Charms 19.07. This new release introduces a range of exciting features and several improvements which enhance Charmed OpenStack across various areas. Let’s talk about a few notable ones. Percona cluster cold start The percona-cluster charm now contains a new logic and actions to

BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core

Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program, and the transition to a cloud-based Cor

Canonical at Open Infrastructure Summit -Denver

Open Infrastructure Summit is coming to Denver from April 29th to May 1st, 2019. Will you be there? We sure will! Come and visit us in Booth B1! Canonical experts will be at the event ready to answer your questions and walk you through our booth demos. Just to name a few: Open Infrastructure developers

Open infrastructure, developer desktop and IoT are the focus for Ubuntu 19.04

18th April, 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.04, focused on open infrastructure deployments, the developer desktop, IoT, and cloud to edge software distribution. “The open-source-first on Ubuntu movement in telco, finance, and media has spread to other sectors. From the public cloud to the private data center to th

Financial services businesses say multi-cloud is central to their plans for AI, containers and blockchain, 451 Research reveals

The Canonical commissioned study found that 60% of financial services businesses bank on the benefits of multi-cloud to support emerging technologies, but significant skills gap still exists An independent report by 451 Research, ‘Multi-Cloud Fundamental to Financial Services Transformation’, found that financial services businesses are l