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Udi Nachmany

Udi Nachmany

11 posts

Director, Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

At Canonical, Udi heads up the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud program, which aims to bring the best of Ubuntu Guest (VMs and containers) to users of Ubuntu partner clouds. Most of Udi's career to date has been focused on bringing transformative technologies from inception to commercialization - both with startups and large corporates. Apart from his day job, Udi enjoys running, yoga, reading and startup mentorship. Having previously lived and/or worked in Israel, the US, Japan and France, since 2011 Udi resides in London, UK with his family.

Udi Nachmany
8 August 2017

Ubuntu in NYC: Kubernetes in minutes and enterprise support on AWS

Cloud and server Article

On August 14th, at the Javits Convention Center in midtown Manhattan, Canonical will be participating in the AWS Summit. Ubuntu has long been popular with users of AWS due to its stability, regular cadence of releases, and scale-out-friendly usage model. Canonical optimizes, builds, and regularly publishes the latest Ubuntu images to the ...

Udi Nachmany
22 June 2017

Certified Ubuntu Cloud Guest – The best of Ubuntu on the best clouds

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. It is the number one guest operating system on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. In fact there are more Ubuntu images running in the public cloud than all other operating systems combined. Ubuntu is a free operating system which means anyone can download an image, whenever ...

Udi Nachmany
5 April 2017

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

Cloud and server Article

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the EC2 Quickstart, Mark ...

Udi Nachmany
28 November 2016

Canonical and AWS partner to deliver world-class support in the cloud

Cloud and server Article

In today’s software world, support is many times an afterthought or an expensive contract used only to keep-up with the latest patches, updates, and versions. Hidden costs to upgrade software, including downtime, scheduling, and planning are also factors that need to be considered. Canonical does not believe the traditional norms of suppo ...

Udi Nachmany
3 November 2016

Open Telekom Cloud joins Certified Public Cloud

Canonical announcements Article

Official Ubuntu images for public cloud VMs, with European data sovereignty through T-Systems’ Open Telekom Cloud Data sovereignty is one of the hot topics in cloud computing—but especially over the past year as new EU regulations have come into play. At the same time, US-based public cloud providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM and ...

Udi Nachmany
14 January 2016

5 reasons you should only use certified images on the public cloud

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. Not only is it the world’s number one platform for deployments of OpenStack (as we’ve covered here), it also runs more public cloud workloads than all other platforms combined. Fast, secure, and proven in the most demanding production environments, it is extremely popular with the likes of ...

Udi Nachmany
2 November 2015

Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant, Interoute VDC is the cloud services platform developed by Interoute Communications, the owner-operator of Europe’s largest network. Interoute’s network offering spans the globe, enc ...

Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015

Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Cloud and server Article

As we’ve mentioned before, Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. OpenStack is, in fact, built on Ubuntu, and its cycles of development are based on Ubuntu’s release schedules. In the public cloud, Ubuntu as a guest OS has also proven to be the developers’ choice, with roughly two-thirds share of VMs on ...

Udi Nachmany
3 June 2015

Juju Support for Google Cloud Platform

Cloud and server Article

As you may have noticed in our release notes, the recent release of a stable 1.23.2 Juju core (and its 1.23.3 follow-on) is packed with goodies such as support for systemd (and Vivid), improved proxy support for restrictive networks, new charm actions, as well as a first run at Juju service leader elections – and ...

Udi Nachmany
16 April 2015

Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds

Cloud and server Article

In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or PaaS environments. ...

Udi Nachmany
24 October 2014

Rapid Ubuntu image deployment – getting up and running in record time

Cloud and server News

The Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme is about providing the best possible user and developer experience on Ubuntu through our public cloud partners.  Canonical continually maintains, tests and updates the Ubuntu images that are quickly made available in locally maintained mirror repositories. This mechanism is particularly ha ...