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55 posts from February 2016
The Internet of Scary Things – #IoScaryT
By Maarten Ectors, 23 February 2016
Your broadband modem is likely vulnerable to critical security bugs that allow hackers to remotely control it and you are at their mercy because your telecom...
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap
By Canonical, 23 February 2016
Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I...
SoDeRa: First app-enabled open-source software-defined base stations
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 23 February 2016
The telecom industry is seeing its revenues from calls and SMS being attacked by over the top players like Facebook and Google. At the same time they are...
Canonical becomes founding member of Open Source MANO (OSM) group
By John Zannos, 22 February 2016
Earlier today, Telefonica announced the creation of the Open Source MANO (OSM) group and I am delighted to say that Canonical is one of the eight founding...
Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition is now available to pre-order
By Canonical, 22 February 2016
The most powerful Ubuntu phone was just announced last week, Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu edition is now available to pre-order from Meizu retailing at USD$369.99 The...
Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures
By John Zannos, 22 February 2016
Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create...
Canonical creates first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab (V-PIL)
By Canonical, 22 February 2016
Canonical announces the creation of the first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab for scale out infrastructure Enables service providers to rigorously test...
Charm Partner Programme
By Ellen Arnold, 21 February 2016
If you’re an ISV focused on the cloud or big data, you’ll know how difficult it can sometimes be for your customers to realise the full value of your...
MWC stand: behind the scenes (part 3)
By Canonical, 19 February 2016
It’s day 3 and the stand is nearing completion. The funky lights have been fitted, the meeting rooms have curvaceous walls inspired by the Ubuntu shape,...
Real world Big Data workloads in the cloud
By Jorge O. Castro, 19 February 2016
In this talk from SCaLE 14x Kevin Monroe talks about how we are working on getting production grade big data workloads in the cloud.
Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 19 February 2016
Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1 you will soon be able to download...
Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)
By Dustin Kirkland, 18 February 2016
I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday. Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely...