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"networking"

Canonical
5 October 2016

Software defined networking is critical in big software

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The promise of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is to help an organization’s network to be more agile, streamlined, and adaptable. Today’s networks are growing in both size and complexity. SDN allows network engineers to automate the management and configuration of their network equipment and services. As a strategy, SDN has gained consi ...

Canonical
3 October 2016

Big software has arrived

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just buzz-words they are disrupti ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
16 May 2016

eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to: familiarise yourself ...

Ellen Arnold
29 February 2016

Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, Juju. Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands. Ubuntu is the most popul ...

Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT) services may be evol ...

Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to ...

Canonical
23 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I have to say, the event is truly huge. Canonical is here demonstrating converged mobile/desktop technology, IoT drones and robots, top of rack switch integration on Snappy Ubuntu Cor ...

Canonical
31 January 2016

Nodes Networking: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is part 4 of my ongoing “Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju” series. The last post, MAAS Setup: Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju, described the steps to deploy MAAS 1.9 itself and configure it with the fabrics, subnets, and VLANs we need to deploy OpenStack. In this post we’ll finish the MAAS setup, add read more » ...

Maarten Ectors
20 January 2016

NFV does not equal Hypervisor

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Summary: This blog post will explain why network equipment providers are incorrectly investing in hypervisors to provide network function virtualisation and why Intel bought Altera. The answer is networking. Until recently switches, routers, DSLAMs, mobile base stations, etc. were all using special purpose hardware components called ASICs ...

Canonical
13 January 2016

AT&T selects Ubuntu for cloud and enterprise applications

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

AT&T has selected Canonical to be part of its effort to drive innovation in the network and cloud. Canonical will provide the Ubuntu OS and engineering support for AT&T’s cloud, network and enterprise applications. AT&T chose Ubuntu based on its demonstrated innovation, and performance as the leading platform for scale-out workloads and c ...

Canonical
2 December 2015

6WIND Partners with Canonical to Accelerate Ubuntu Cloud Networking

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

6WIND to Integrate Virtual Accelerator with Juju 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced it will work with Canonical to help customers accelerate cloud networking on Ubuntu. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ has been validated on Canonical’s Ubuntu platform and both companies are working together to integrate 6WIND ...

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