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Blog posts tagged "OpenStack"

How City Network solves challenges for the modern financial company

Learn how City Network builds their Regulatory compliant Cloud services fit for some of the largest banks, insurance companies and large corporations in the world. In this talk, Johan Christenson, CEO of City Network, will detail: Requirements and challenges for industries who are subject to regulatory compliance How we build our clouds a

Cloud to Edge: Building the software defined telco infrastructure

With the explosive growth of data, telcos are facing new challenges in revenue. Canonical currently provide some of the world’s leading service providers with an automated, repeatable, and tried & tested telco solution. In this webinar, join Nathan Rader to learn how Ubuntu OpenStack can help telcos: Reduce time to market Save money throu

Edging Closer – ODS Sydney

Despite the fact that OpenStack’s mission statement has not fundamentally changed since the inception of the project in 2010, we have found many different interpretations of the technology through the years. One of them was that OpenStack would be an all-inclusive anything-as-a-service, in a striking parallel to the many different definit

PT Biznet Gio Nusantara Launches NEO Cloud with Canonical BootStack

PT Biznet Gio Nusantara Launches NEO Cloud – a Leading Cloud Computing Platform for App Developers – running on Ubuntu OpenStack on Canonical’s BootStack managed cloud.  NEO Cloud is built on OpenStack technology, the first cloud computing service in Indonesia providing Multiple Availability Zones and Multiple Regions. NEO Cloud will be a

MAAS KVM Pods

This is a guest post by Michael Iatrou, cloud solutions architect at Canonical OpenStack is the dominant solution in the IaaS space, fueled by the need for reliable, scalable and interoperable private cloud infrastructure to accommodate cloud native applications. Through OpenStack’s open APIs, tenants can easily deploy elaborate virtual (

OpenStack Development Summary – October 13, 2017

Welcome to the seventh Ubuntu OpenStack development summary! This summary is intended to be a regular communication of activities and plans happening in and around Ubuntu OpenStack, covering but not limited to the distribution and deployment of OpenStack on Ubuntu. If there is something that you would like to see covered in future summari

Four steps to mobilising legacy OpenStack and escaping StuckStack

According to figures from the OpenStack Foundation, just 20 per cent of users are using the latest version of the software. Companies that fall to far behind updates risk becoming stuck on an older version of OpenStack, leaving themselves in danger of higher costs, diminishing agility and reduced security. We call this condition StuckStac

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.  

OpenStack Pike and all new updates to the Cloud Archive

On Wednesday 30th August, the upstream OpenStack community officially announced the release of OpenStack Pike. Pike represents the 2nd release of OpenStack this year after Ocata was released back in February and it shows that the innovation and progress in OpenStack shows no signs of slowing just yet. With recent big announcements from Go

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In the last post on this topic we discussed how many of these clouds became stuck and how the decisions

OpenStack in a Snap

OpenStack is complex and many OpenStack community members are working hard to make the deployment and operation of OpenStack easier. Much of this time is focused on tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Kolla, Juju, Triple-O, Chef (to name a few). But what if we step down a level and also make the package experience easier?

Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime

Live webinar It has become commonplace to see some OpenStack users choose to remain on old unsupported versions of OpenStack, forgoing new features and security updates rather than face the disruption, stress and complexity of upgrading. At Canonical we call this a StuckStack, a cloud that cannot or will not be upgraded. In this webinar

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

  7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all together to the point that global businesses such as Walmart, AT&T and Bloomberg are now running on OpenStack. Whilst most OpenStack implementations started

OpenStack and Containers live Q&A session

Join us for a 1 hour online session with a cloud expert OpenStack and Containers Office Hours are online Q&A sessions held on an ongoing basis. Their aim is to help community members and customers deploy, manage and scale their Ubuntu-based cloud infrastructure. What’s covered? These interactive online sessions are hosted by an expert fro

Customising MAAS installs

by Matt Jarvis, Consulting Architect at Canonical Canonical’s MAAS is a bare metal provisioning and lifecycle management system. In this post, we’ll look at customising installs provisioned by MAAS to enable site specific configuration. Historically, the paradigm for bare metal machine installation has been to use a ‘golden master’ image,

PCCW Global chooses Ubuntu OpenStack and Juju

PCCW Global plans expansion to deliver enterprise, edge applications, NFV and IoT enablement to customers Integrated Canonical and CPLANE NETWORKS solution will deliver high-performance, elastic infrastructure Removes the complexity of multiple systems and OpenStack APIs streamlining service integration and leveraging existing services Pl