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Blog posts tagged
"Private cloud"


Canonical
2 January 2023

Hybrid cloud infrastructure modernisation

AI Cloud

Public clouds enabled digital transformation at unprecedented speed. But their operational costs over time can be exacting as compute needs increase. Hybrid clouds emerged as an alternative to gain the benefits of both worlds: private infrastructure that allows for lower operational expenditures and tighter control, and public clouds that ...


Kris Sharma
30 September 2022

Migrating to an open-source private cloud platform: key considerations

Financial Services Article

Private clouds combine the many benefits of cloud computing, like elasticity, scalability and agility, with the security, access control and resource customisation of on-prem infrastructure. Private clouds allow financial institutions to have greater control over hardware and software choices. They make it easier to enforce compliance wit ...


Tytus Kurek
26 September 2022

Open-source cloud for beginners with OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

In the beginning, there was Amazon Web Services (AWS). And AWS set a standard for cloud computing. AWS was fast, flexible, convenient to use and geo-redundant. Definitely much better than legacy IT infrastructure or VMware. A lot of enterprises all over the world started migrating their business applications to AWS. Over the next few year ...


Miona Aleksic
12 September 2022

Using LXD to host your own ERP, cost-effectively

Cloud and server Article

Are you looking to host your own ERP cost-effectively, or perhaps evaluating solutions to host other types of applications for your small business? Learn how you can do that with LXD. ...


Kris Sharma
4 May 2022

Cost optimised private cloud for financial services

Financial Services Article

Why private clouds? Regulatory compliance and data privacy requirements require financial institutions (FIs) to consider carefully where their applications are running and where the customer data is stored. The data protection and data sovereignty laws in most countries require an enterprise to keep data in certain geographic locations. P ...


Tytus Kurek
3 March 2022

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Canonical
1 March 2022

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

Canonical announcements Article

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 helped Pacific Textil ...


Tytus Kurek
17 February 2022

An overview of OpenStack storage

Ceph Article

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 created as an ...


Tytus Kurek
2 February 2022

Open source cloud platform: meet OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

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
6 January 2022

OpenStack challenges 2022

Cloud and server Article

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 ...


Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021

Data centre networking: SDDC

Networking Article

To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components. ...