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Forrester Research report: accelerate your cloud expansion

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 16 May 2016

Cloud is now mainstream, but what’s holding it back, what are the biggest concerns of technology decision makers? Are industry leaders choosing public,...

eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 16 May 2016

Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is...

Using containers to create the world’s fastest OpenStack

by Dustin Kirkland on 10 May 2016

Below you can find the audio/video recording of my OpenStack Austin presentation, where I demonstrated Ubuntu OpenStack Mitaka, running on top of Ubuntu 16.04...

What’s possible with Ubuntu on Mainframe?

by matt-c-irvine on 5 May 2016

IBM Systems Magazine Webinar “Discover the Cloud and Scale Out World of Ubuntu”held on 27 April 2016 Recently announced support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on IBM...

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

by Christian Ehrhardt on 5 May 2016

DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality...

Security confinement in Ubuntu Core

by Gustavo Niemeyer on 4 May 2016

As much anticipated, the recent release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS included integrated support for snaps on classic Ubuntu. The snap format is part of Ubuntu Core, a...

Ubuntu & IBM on POWER and LinuxOne Webinar

by Dustin Kirkland on 27 April 2016

I’m delighted to share the slides from our joint IBM and Canonical webinar about Ubuntu on IBM POWER8 and LinuxOne servers. You can download the PDF here,...

LXD 2.0: Live migration [9/12]

by Stéphane Graber on 25 April 2016

This is the ninth blog post in this series about LXD 2.0.IntroductionOne of the very exciting feature of LXD 2.0, albeit experimental, is the support for...

Making deep learning accessible on Openstack

by Samuel Cozannet on 25 April 2016

This week at the Openstack Developers Summit we are excited to showcase how Canonical with IBM, Mesosphere, Skymind and Data Fellas are working together to...

OpenStack Spotlight Carlos Gonzales and Josh McJilton

by TaNeisha Page on 23 April 2016

Carlos Gonzales gives some insight about his role as a Engineer Manager for our Ecosystems and his outlook about meeting people at OpenStack. What does your...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for IBM LinuxONE and IBM z Systems is now available

by John Zannos on 22 April 2016

With the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS we now offer the same great Ubuntu experience on z Systems and LinuxONE servers as x86 and OpenPower platforms. Download...

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

by Canonical on 20 April 2016

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with...