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Cloud Chatter: September 2016
by Canonical on 30 September 2016
Welcome to our September edition. This month, We begin with Canonical introducing enterprise support for its own distribution of Kubernetes across public clouds and private infrastructure. Next up we give you a preview of what you can expect from us in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit. We have details of our expanding partnership with IB […]
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Canonical expands enterprise container portfolio
by Canonical on 27 September 2016
Canonical Expands Enterprise Container Portfolio with Commercially Supported Distribution of Kubernetes Canonical’s distribution of Kubernetes is supported, enterprise Kubernetes Support is available on public clouds, private infrastructure, bare metal Elastic solution with built in analytics for scale-out ‘process container’ loads LONDON […]
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Monitoring “big software” stacks with the Elastic Stack
by Charles Butler on 22 September 2016
Big Software is a new class of application. It’s composed of so many moving pieces that humans, by themselves, cannot design, deploy or operate them. OpenStack, Hadoop and container-based architectures are all examples of Big Software. Gathering service metrics for […]
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Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud
by Canonical on 14 September 2016
Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with enterprise security updates Ubuntu Advantage support available through the Bigstep console CHICAGO, U.S and LONDON, U.K. Sept 14 – Bigstep, the big data cloud provider, and Canonical, the […]
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Deploying a Spark job using Juju
by Guest on 13 September 2016
Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool. According to the official definition, Juju is a service modelling tool that allows people to model, configure and deploy applications in the cloud. […]
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Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju
by Guest on 4 September 2016
This quarter’s PLUG (Pentaho London User Group) headed to Canonical’s head office which is nicely located just behind the Tate Modern in London. I must admit I don’t know much about what they do, but a bit of research later and I quickly saw they’re at the heart of open source, and they have a […]
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Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab
by Canonical on 30 August 2016
Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP compliant. At the new […]
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Layer Docker deep dive
by Charles Butler on 5 August 2016
Juju is all about modeling your application. That means that an application can be in a docker container, use a configuration management utility on top of a traditional machine, or is a single binary golang application. This is the beauty of abstracting via models; we can concentrate on the applications themselves instead of their deliver […]
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What is and Why Micro-Segmentation for multi-tenant big software?
by Brent Clements on 26 July 2016
Working with enterprises particularly those in health, financial services and government sectors who are required to be serious about security and who need to meet regulatory compliance requirements, micro-segmentation has emerged as a hot security topic. It is currently the preferred method for securing big software deployments in multi […]
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Introducing the new Juju store
by Elvi on 22 July 2016
Over the past few months, the Juju team has been working on a whole redesign of the Juju store homepage and we’re very happy to announce that it is now live! Juju is an application and service modelling tool that enables you to quickly model, configure, deploy and manage applications in the cloud. Juju comes […]
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Charm Partner Newsletter: July
by Ellen Arnold on 14 July 2016
In this issue… Ecosystem growth: Welcome to our new partners New features and tips: Juju GUI 2.0, using ZFS and LXD, and OPNFV charming Upcoming events: Juju Charmer Summit 12-14 September and upcoming office hours Ecosystem Growth Canonical announced multiple signatories to its Juju Charm Partner Program (CPP) in June. We’ve added leadin […]
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Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure
by Canonical on 13 July 2016
Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int […]