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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
22 February 2017

Why does software-defined everything matter?

Cloud and server Article

Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving calls. That’s because phones have evolved from single function device to malleable pocket computers whose entire purpose is defined by the apps that ...


Canonical
22 February 2017

Screenly announces a follow-up to its popular digital signage solution

Internet of Things Article

Screenly’s platform has grown to run over 10,000 screens in less than four years Making it the largest commercial deployment of Raspberry Pi for digital signage Enables rich content in-store screens to be flexible media platform Screenly 2 has been rebuilt from scratch with Ubuntu Core to bring more and easier to use features with ...


Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Cloud and server Webinar

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure more efficiently. C ...


Canonical
20 February 2017

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

Internet of Things Article

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service interruptions, fraudulent acti ...


Canonical
16 February 2017

Lime Microsystems and Canonical announce LimeNET crowdfunding

Internet of Things Article

Sequel to initial $1million successful crowdfunding campaign follow hugely successful first round of crowdfunding for open-source, 5G and IoT capable SDR with app stores Second round will provide a market for round-one developers to sell their apps on the first open source mobile and IoT base station with app stores New revenues for telco ...


Canonical
9 February 2017

openHAB arrives as a snap!

Internet of Things Article

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from different brands London, UK – February 9th, 2017: Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that a ...


Canonical
8 February 2017

Community Initiative UBports launches Ubuntu Fairphone 2

Phone and tablet Article

The Ubuntu Community UBports has one mission: to have the open source software Ubuntu on every device, starting with smartphones. UBports’ actions are based on collaborative development where developers are putting Ubuntu on different smartphones. During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona end of February UBports will show a very speci ...


Canonical
7 February 2017

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

Internet of Things Article

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and Netflix. The ...


Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Internet of Things Article

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from over 2,000 ...


Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

Cloud and server White paper

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are bare metal servers ...


Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Cloud and server Article

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at ubuntu.com/livepatch or update to newest kernel and reboot. Linux kernel vulnerability 7th December 2016 (LSN-0014-1) Details: A race condition in the af_packet implementation in the Linux kernel. A ...


Canonical
8 December 2016

Mounting your home directory in LXD

Cloud and server Article

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount my home directory into a container?” and before the answer was “well, it’s complicated but you can do it; it’s slightly less complicated if you do it ...