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Blog posts tagged
"data center"

David Beamonte
19 December 2025

A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS

Cloud and server MAAS

The recent release of MAAS 3.7 introduces a significant new capability: the ability to provision NVIDIA BlueField Data Processing Units (DPUs) directly through their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), ...

Tytus Kurek
2 September 2025

OpenStack PoC? No problem!

Cloud and server Article

Setting up a proof of concept (PoC) environment is often one of the first steps in any IT project. It helps organizations to get to grips with the technology, validate the idea, and identify any potential risks. However, setting up an OpenStack PoC has always been a challenge due to the overall complexity of the ...

David Beamonte
26 June 2025

Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation

Cloud and server MAAS

Data centers don’t have to be power-hungry monsters. With smart automation using tools like MAAS, you can reduce energy waste and operational costs, and make your infrastructure greener, without sacrificing performance or flexibility. ...

David Beamonte
20 June 2025

Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs

Cloud and server Article

To truly reduce OpEx, you must shift your perspective from seeing operations as custom, artisanal work to one where operations are standardized, automated, and repeatable.  In other words, commoditized. ...

Tytus Kurek
26 May 2025

OpenStack with Sunbeam for medium-scale cloud infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

The rapid growth in OpenStack installation and orchestration tools that we have seen in recent years has effectively established OpenStack as the world’s leading open source cloud platform. Projects like Sunbeam or Kolla Ansible, for example, are effectively transforming OpenStack into yet another user application. By using containers and ...

Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms 

Canonical announcements Article

Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is  working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU solution from Rivos.  Thi ...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

AI Article

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s ...

Rhys Knipe
12 June 2024

Space pioneers: Lonestar gears up to create a data centre on the Moon

Canonical announcements Article

Why establish a data centre on the Moon? Find out in our blog. ...

Canonical
11 April 2024

Ventana and Canonical collaborate on enabling enterprise data center, high-performance and AI computing on RISC-V

Silicon Article

This blog is co-authored by Gordan Markuš, Canonical and Kumar Sankaran, Ventana Micro Systems Unlocking the future of semiconductor innovation  RISC-V, an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA), is rapidly shaping the future of high-performance computing, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. The RISC-V customizable and ...

Miona Aleksic
29 November 2022

VMware to open source: what do you need to consider?

Cloud and server Article

Read on for some of the most important considerations when thinking about migrating from VMware to Ubuntu-based open-source infrastructure. ...

Philip Williams
10 November 2022

What is object storage?

Ceph Article

Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very simplistic interface, ...

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