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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
12 May 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Article

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing ...


Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

Internet of Things News

Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft & DataArt London and San Francisco, May, 11 2015 – Canonical is collaborating with some of the world’s smartest technology brands, including GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft ...


Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

Internet of Things News

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart refrigerator in the Ubuntu booth (Stand 545) at the second annual Internet of Things World conference at the Moscone Center on May 12 – 13, 2015. ChillHub is a refrigerator with two ...


Canonical
7 May 2015

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

Cloud and server Article

The hSenid Cloud Telco Application Platform (Cloud TAP) is now available in Canonical’s Juju Charm Store. The Charm works with Juju from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Juju allows developers to design their application architecture like they would on a virtual whiteboard, with boxes for services, and lines to connect them. The Juju ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Article

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

Cloud and server Article

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com

Desktop News

A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence within the UK 05 May 2015, London: Electronic Commerce Retailer Ebuyer has launched a series of AMD-based HP laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. These devices are perfect for business an ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

Cloud and server Article

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be running within a Cloud environment where a meta-data source is provided. But since OVA is a virtualization appliance format, users have expressed some confusion as how they ...


Canonical
24 April 2015

DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace

Cloud and server News

The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A leader in this space, DataArt, developed one of the first IoT and big data open sourced platforms, DeviceHive, and published on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. DataArt has collaborate ...


Canonical
22 April 2015

10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integr ...


Canonical
22 April 2015

Canonical and QCT partnership extends to next-generation managed cloud

Cloud and server News

Bootstack now available on QCT Hardware Bundled proposition reduces cloud deployment from months to days Canonical and QCT (Quanta Cloud Technology) have extended their collaboration by bundling the most innovative managed cloud services, based on Ubuntu reference architecture on QCT hardware. Canonical’s reference architecture is designe ...


Canonical
21 April 2015

Ubuntu 15.04: Desktop, Phone and IoT; towards a converged future

Desktop News

Ubuntu 15.04 desktop extends leadership of developer experience Snappy Ubuntu Core on general availability for the first time New developer tools allow immediate and constant access to latest updates London – 21 April, 2015. Ubuntu 15.04, the latest release from Canonical, will be available for download this week with updates across the d ...