Blog posts tagged
"OpenStack"

350 posts


Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Article Cloud and server

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot OpenStack straight in the heart. OpenStack fell to the ground and with the last moment of strength exclaimed: “Long live open infrastructure”! That could be a headline of a

Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022


Canonical
1 March 2022

Pacific Textiles drives digital transformation with new infrastructure for legacy and cloud-native applications

Article Canonical announcements

March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The professional services team from Canonical...

Canonical
1 March 2022


Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Article Ceph

OpenStack storage is probably one of the most complex topics in OpenStack architecture right after networking. There are many different storage options, at least a few storage services, and tons of supported storage backends. It is very easy to get lost. But do not worry, there is hope. Since OpenStack was initially...

Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022


Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Are you looking for an open source cloud platform and you don’t know where to start? Are you getting lost in all the independent rankings and cloud platform comparison pages? Try OpenStack and get your open source cloud platform up and running today. OpenStack works at any scale: from a single workstation to thousands of

Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022


Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Article Cloud and server

Happy New Year 2022! The fireworks are all fired, the champagne is over. It is time to get back to work. We are glad to see you here though. 2021 was a good year for OpenStack and its Ubuntu-based community. First, we all have seen Ubuntu becoming the number one operating system (OS) for OpenStack

Tytus Kurek
6 January 2022


Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack vs AWS is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly some of the most popular cloud technologies in both public and private cloud space. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its...

Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021


Tytus Kurek
25 October 2021

OpenStack Xena and OpenStack Charms 21.10

Article Cloud and server

The release of OpenStack Charms 21.10 brings native support for OpenStack Xena in Charmed OpenStack. This latest version of OpenStack comes with initial support for SmartNICs in Nova and further improvements around Neutron Open Virtual Network (OVN) driver integration.  In order to further simplify the job of the cloud...

Tytus Kurek
25 October 2021


Canonical
13 September 2021

Enterprise Open Source Summit: A Business Perspective on Open Source

Article Canonical announcements

November 10, 2021 Canonical, Nextcloud, Collabora, Linbit, OpenNebula and Factor Group will present business perspectives on the use of open source in enterprise environments at the Enterprise Open Source Summit event scheduled for November 10, 2021. Open source solutions are becoming increasingly popular in all areas...

Canonical
13 September 2021


Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021

KVM hypervisor: a beginners’ guide

Article Cloud and server

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the leading open source virtualisation technology for Linux. It installs natively on all Linux distributions and turns underlying physical servers into hypervisors so that they can host multiple, isolated virtual machines (VMs). KVM comes with no licenses, type-1 hypervisor...

Tytus Kurek
8 September 2021


Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021

Where configuration management falls short: model-driven OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Have you ever installed OpenStack from scratch? I know, it sounds geeky, unnecessary and maybe even overcomplicated … It is after all 2021, OpenStack is mature, there are hundreds of OpenStack distributions available out there, configuration management tools are all the way around and installing OpenStack from scratch...

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2021


Kris Sharma
9 August 2021

Open source in Banking – Building the bank of the future, today

Article Financial Services

Banking is at a pivotal moment. New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to...

Kris Sharma
9 August 2021


Tytus Kurek
13 July 2021

Ubuntu becomes #1 OS for OpenStack deployment

Article Cloud and server

One of the core values of Canonical, that we all identify with, is the mission of bringing the power of open source to everyone on the planet. From developing to developed countries. From individuals to big enterprises. From engineers to CEOs. And there is only one way to find out if we are efficient in

Tytus Kurek
13 July 2021


Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Finserv open source infrastructure powers digital transformation

Article Financial Services

Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation initiatives at pace and scale.  Finservs are enhancing their purview of digital transformation initiatives to stay relevant and create a technology foundation that enables them to...

Kris Sharma
6 July 2021


Canonical
8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

Article Canonical announcements

New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in...

Canonical
8 June 2021