Newsletters
DAIR – May 2018 Newsletter
Welcome to the May edition of the DAIR Cloud Community Newsletter. This month we have an exciting discussion about Docker and how Docker can be used in your DAIR environment. Docker is an open source, software container platform. Docker lends flexibility and portability to your cloud environment by enabling you to you to containerize your […]
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Date: May 13, 2018Research Software – April 2018 Newsletter
Our annual Research Software Workshop is evolving! We are pleased to announce that our Research Software Workshop has now become the Canadian Research Software Conference. This will be a larger event that will look to tackle the challenges currently experienced by research software developers on a national and global level. The inaugural conference will be […]
Read More...Date: April 12, 2018DAIR – February 2018 Newsletter
Welcome to the February edition of the DAIR Cloud Community Newsletter. This month we discuss a mandatory volume migration for all DAIR users. DAIR has moved to a new cloud storage model to improve storage reliability. As a result, you must migrate your data in order to preserve it. As operators of DAIR, we cannot […]
Read More...Date: February 13, 2018DAIR – January 2018 Newsletter
Welcome to the January edition of the DAIR Cloud Community Newsletter. This month we will focus on patching your Windows environment. If you are looking for patching tips for your DAIR Linux environment, please refer to our previous video listed here. Please take five minutes to watch our latest video to learn about the best practices […]
Read More...Date: January 13, 2018Research Software – November 2017 Newsletter
Program Updates The Research Software Team at the ICSG in Montreal As part of our ongoing international outreach efforts, CANARIE recently attended a meeting of the International Coalition on Science Gateways (ICSG) in Montreal. “Science gateway” is the international terminology for what we refer to in Canada as “research software platform”. With members from Australia, New […]
Read More...Date: November 13, 2017DAIR – October 2017 Newsletter
Welcome to the October edition of the DAIR Cloud Community Newsletter. This month we will focus on patching your Linux environment. Please take five minutes to learn about the best practices for patching Linux environments on DAIR. 1. Linux Patching 2. Program Update: OpenStack – Mitaka We have updated to OpenStack – Mitaka, giving us […]
Read More...Date: October 13, 2017DAIR – August 2017 Newsletter
Welcome to our August edition of the DAIR Cloud community newsletter. This month we are focusing on security for your DAIR Cloud environment, including firewall best practices. Take five minutes of your day to learn more about firewall best practices in our video below. 1. Firewall Best Practices 2. Program Update: CloudTracker We have launched […]
Read More...Date: August 13, 2017DAIR – July 2017 Newsletter
Welcome to the second edition of the DAIR Cloud community newsletter. This time around, we have other exciting things to show as we focus on the use of Apache in DAIR. If you are new to using Apache, check out our new instructional video that walks you through the process. 1. Getting Started with Apache 2. […]
Read More...Date: July 13, 2017Research Software – April 2017 Newsletter
Program Updates The Research Software Workshop is right around the corner! On May 2nd and 3rd, CANARIE will host the annual Research Software Developers’ Workshop in Montreal. The goal of the workshop is to share best practices and explore new opportunities for collaboration in development of software to support scientific research. Presenters include: Isaac Tamblyn (National Research […]
Read More...Date: April 13, 2017