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The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

by Canonical on 19 May 2015

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed...

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

by Canonical on 18 May 2015

LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based...

What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?

by Canonical on 18 May 2015

Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is...

What is software-defined storage?

by Canonical on 18 May 2015

What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

by Canonical on 12 May 2015

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting...

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

by Canonical on 11 May 2015

Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer,...

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

by Canonical on 11 May 2015

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart...

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

by Canonical on 7 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the...

Live Migration in LXD

by Canonical on 6 May 2015

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a...

Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com

by Canonical on 5 May 2015

A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence...

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

by Canonical on 5 May 2015

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be...