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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
27 September 2016

First setup of my Nextcloud Box

Internet of Things Article

Article cited below by Hagen Cocoate and source here Last Saturday at Nextcloud conference in Berlin the Nextcloud Box was announced. Frank said it’s a part of his promise/desire to make the world a better place by bringing your data home. How can the world be a better place with Nextcloud Box? What is Nextcloud ...


Canonical
19 September 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers

Canonical announcements News

IBM and Canonical expand Hybrid Cloud Alliance as Ubuntu OpenStack is available today on all IBM servers Ubuntu OpenStack support included with Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage enterprise-grade support offering. Ubuntu OpenStack is the only OpenStack offered by a commercial Linux distributor that supports IBM Power Systems today. LONDON, U.K, ...


Canonical
14 September 2016

Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud

Canonical announcements News

Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with enterprise security updates Ubuntu Advantage support available through the Bigstep console CHICAGO, U.S and LONDON, U.K. Sept 14 – Bigstep, the big data cloud provider, and Canonical, the ...


Canonical
7 September 2016

Cloud Chatter: September 2016

Cloud and server Article

Welcome to the latest issue of Cloud Chatter. This month, don’t miss: A look at Facebook’s new lab, testing software solutions including Juju and MAAS The launch of our new Ubuntu Advantage store QTS’s new private, fully managed Ubuntu OpenStack cloud An in depth analyst report on Opus 2’s new cloud Linux celebrates its 25th ...


Canonical
30 August 2016

Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab

Canonical announcements Article

Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP compliant. At the new ...


Canonical
22 August 2016

QTS and Canonical unveil private, fully managed OpenStack cloud

Canonical announcements News

OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, and LONDON, U.K. (August 22, 2016) – Responding to increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing) announced today a pr ...


Canonical
19 August 2016

Cenique and Canonical partnering to create certified digital signage and audience measurement solutions

Internet of Things News

Companies to provide plug and play digital signage and audience measurement solution based on Ubuntu Core. London, UK – August 19, 2016 Canonical, today announced that it is entering in a partnership with Cenique to provide digital signage players that are certified for Ubuntu. Cenique is an emerging leader in the Retail and Digital Out ...


Canonical
16 August 2016

Advantech and Canonical form strategic partnership for IoT gateways

Internet of Things News

Ubuntu Core operating system provides production ready platform for gateways. London, UK – August 16, 2016 – Canonical today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Advantech to work together to certify the company’s Internet of Things (IoT) gateways for Ubuntu Core. The partnership ensures users of Advantech’s selected Intel ...


Canonical
15 August 2016

Convergent terminal

Ubuntu User Experience

We have been looking at ways of making the Terminal app more pleasing, in terms of the user experience, as well as the visuals. I would like to share the work so far, invite users of the app to comment on the new designs, and share ideas on what other new features would be desirable. ...


Canonical
9 August 2016

Competition winner – Timer App

Ubuntu Design

Back in June we hosted a competition that asked developers to use the AdaptivePageLayout component from the UI toolkit to create an app that converges across devices. We had some very impressive entires that used the component in different ways; choosing a winner was hard. However, after testing all the apps the design team chose a ...


Canonical
5 August 2016

IBM and Canonical: This Is Just The Beginning

Cloud and server Article

The partnership between Canonical and IBM continues to thrive. As we embark on the era of Containerization, Cloud, NFV, IoT, and Machine Learning, companies like IBM are innovating to meet the demands of modern computing. We caught up with IBM’s GM of Power Systems, Doug Balog, at OpenStack Summit Austin to get his thoughts about ...


Canonical
4 August 2016

App Design Guides phase 2 release: Patterns

Ubuntu Featured

Last week we released phase 1 of the new App Design Guides, which included Get started and Building blocks. Now we have just released phase 2: Patterns. This includes handy guidance on gestures, navigation and layout possibilities to provide a great user experience in your app. Navigation: user journeys Find guidance for utilizing compone ...