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LXD in the Sky with Diamonds

by Dustin Kirkland on 5 November 2015

Picture yourself containers on a server With systemd trees and spawned tty’s Somebody calls you, you answer quite quickly A world with the density so high –...

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

by Canonical on 5 November 2015

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux...

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

by James Donner on 3 November 2015

We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below”...

Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu

by Udi Nachmany on 2 November 2015

A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant,...

Nested containers in LXD

by Serge Hallyn on 30 October 2015

We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are...

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

by Canonical on 30 October 2015

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature...

Everyone Can Have a New “Datacenter” Right Now, Even You!

by Randall Ross on 29 October 2015

A (new) datacenter? Me? Really? Why would I want that? Answer 1: Because if you’re an individual, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved by...

Now you’re charming with layers

by Cory Johns on 29 October 2015

Charming with layers is a relatively new approach to writing charms that we, as the Juju community, are begining to use. The idea is to allow better re-use of...

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

by Canonical on 29 October 2015

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content...

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

by Canonical on 29 October 2015

Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the...

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

by Canonical on 29 October 2015

The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business...

Vendors support Ubuntu Core as neutral platform for switches

by Canonical on 29 October 2015

Canonical accelerates disaggregation of switch hardware, operating system and network control software with snappy Ubuntu Core