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Blog posts tagged
"spotlight"


Mark Baker
18 July 2017

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
28 June 2017

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

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Mark Baker
28 June 2017

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

Cloud and server Article

  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 ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
20 June 2017

OpenStack and Containers live Q&A session

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Video: Managed OpenStack upgrades

Cloud and server Videos

The process of upgrading OpenStack releases can be challenging, given the many moving parts and the cadence of releases. In this use case video, Juan Carliante, Cloud Reliability Engineer for Canonical explains how Canonical’s BootStack  Engineering team solves issues arising during the upgrade process quickly using Juju, an open-source a ...


Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Cloud and server Webinar

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure more efficiently. C ...


Cezzaine Zaher
10 February 2017

Webinar: Getting started with the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

Discover the simplest and easiest way to stand up and operate a Kubernetes cluster in AWS. Watch our webinar! The Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes is a pure-upstream distribution that delivers you the latest version of Kubernetes with built-in community operational knowledge. In this on-demand webinar we cover: how to set up your own ...


Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Internet of Things Article

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from over 2,000 ...


Tom Callway
4 January 2017

Join our OpenStack and Containers Office Hours

Cloud and server Article

Sign-up for a 1 hour web session with an expert from Canonical Starting in 2017, we will be running a series of ‘Office Hours’ online sessions to help community members and customers deploy, manage and scale their Ubuntu-based cloud infrastructure. Upcoming sessions New sessions will be announced soon, stay tuned! What’s covered? These in ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
15 December 2016

Research: Consumers are terrible at updating their connected devices

Internet of Things Article

Many developers and manufacturers of IoT connected devices will know that consumers are bad at updating the firmware on their connected devices, and that this fact is at the heart of many of the IoT’s security vulnerabilities. But what they might not know is just how bad. Ubuntu recently surveyed 2000 consumers to better-understand their ...


Tom Callway
7 December 2016

Webinar: Running an enterprise-grade OpenStack without the headaches

Cloud and server Webinar

Watch Webinar On-demand In Canonical’s latest on-demand webinar, we explore how to build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack on a Supermicro reference architecture. Supermicro offers end-to-end green computing solutions for the data center and enterprise IT. Its solutions range from server, storage, blade, workstati ...


Ellen Arnold
11 November 2016

Webinar: Secure, scale and simplify your OpenStack deployments

Cloud and server Article

In our latest on-demand webinar, we explore how we can build and manage highly scalable OpenStack clouds with BootStack, Juju and PLUMgrid. Arturo Suarez, Product Manager for BootStack at Canonical, and Justin Moore, Principal Solutions Architect, at PLUMgrid, discuss common issues users run into when running OpenStack at scale, and how t ...