Skip to main content

Blog posts tagged
"Server"


Jorge O. Castro
15 December 2016

Get 50% off Linux Foundation training and certification

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s been a great year for Ubuntu. More and more cloud users are turning to Ubuntu for their needs on public clouds. On the private cloud side you can find us on most production deployments of OpenStack, and we’re bringing you the latest bits of Kubernetes and other exciting cloud technologies, like fresh Docker packages. ...


Dustin Kirkland
8 December 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Security: A Comprehensive Overview

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

From Linux kernel livepatches to encryption to ASLR to compiler optimizations and configuration hardening, we strive to ensure that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is the most secure Linux distribution out of the box.These slides try to briefly explain:what we do to ...


Canonical
16 November 2016

Microsoft loves Linux. SQL Server Public Preview available on Ubuntu

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Microsoft has just announced its public preview of the next release of SQL Server, and Canonical is delighted to announce that this preview is available for Ubuntu. SQL Server on Ubuntu now provides freedom of choice for developers and organisations alike whether you use on premises or in the cloud. SQL Server enables choice of ...


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: cloud and server?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

General availability of Canonical’s OpenStack Autopilot, the fastest and easiest way to build an Ubuntu OpenStack cloud LXD machine containers: a pure container hypervisor hosting Ubuntu, CentOS and other Linux guests Tech Preview:  nova-compute-lxd OpenStack driver for machine containers Tech Preview: DPDK fast network packet processing ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow immediate and constant access to latest updates London – 21 April, 2015. Ubuntu 15.04, the latest release from Canonical, will be available for download this week with updates across the d ...


Canonical
9 January 2015

A year in the Cloud

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud.  Including ...


Canonical
23 October 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 delivers leading scale-out cloud technology

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 14.10 for cloud and servers is available for download; includes industry-leading, secure bare-metal LXC containers, multi-OS provisioning, and solutions for OpenStack, big data and Cloud Foundry as well as Docker 1.2 Scale-out orchestration of Windows workloads alongside Linux workloads with Juju Canonical’s cloud ecosystem continu ...


Mark Baker
30 September 2013

Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The telco business has long prided itself on providing dependable services all day every day. Today, dial tones generally survive earthquakes, hurricanes, wars and power cuts and that is testimony to the service quality telcos provide. This high level of service quality runs through a telco’s DNA, which gives their applications the renown ...


Mark Baker
10 September 2013

Ubuntu the challenger?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

When it comes to using Linux on an enterprise server, Ubuntu is generally seen as the new challenger in a market dominated by established vendors specifically targeting enterprises. However, we are seeing signs that this is changing. The W3Techs data showing Ubuntu’s continued growth as a platform for online scale-out infrastructure is be ...


Mark Baker
2 September 2013

Cloud gets a boost with VMware vCHS

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

On Monday August 26th, VMware announced the general availability of their vCloud Hybrid Service. This service, initially opened back in May to a restricted set of early adopters provides VMware customers with a means of being able to easily bring their workloads out of their own datacentres and into to the cloud. For many customers ...


Mark Baker
11 June 2013

Taking the 'fun' out of OpenStack

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

“May you live in interesting times.” This Chinese proverb probably resonates well with teams running OpenStack in production over the last 18 months. But, at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth demonstrated that life is going to get much less ‘interesting’ for people running OpenStack and that ...