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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
29 August 2014

Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF

Desktop Article

We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in the Digital Networks and Computing category, which recognises organisations involved in computer hardware, software and networks, as well as their applications for social, security, p ...


Canonical
21 August 2014

Ubuntu now available on VMware vCloud Air

Cloud and server News

London 21st August 2014: VMware, Inc., and Canonical today announced that certified Ubuntu LTS images are available on VMware vCloud® Air™, an enterprise-grade cloud platform offering customers performance, reliability, and security for their cloud infrastructures. The relationship brings optimised and fully supported Ubuntu LTS images to ...


Canonical
20 August 2014

Juju plays in the big leagues at Linux Foundation survey

Cloud and server Article

“Juju is amazing!” is a phrase we at Canonical have grown accustomed to hearing from customers and prospects who see the powerful service orchestration tool for the first time. The incredible speed and smoothness with which Juju deploys and manages highly complex cloud applications is unrivalled and a well-known fact to anyone using Ubunt ...


Canonical
18 August 2014

Ubuntu OpenStack — the natural choice for telcos and service providers

Cloud and server Article

As a Telco or Cloud Service Provider, you have much more stringent requirements of your infrastructure than a normal enterprise. You expect high availability, almost 100% uptime, and the ability to scale infrastructure and services up and down quickly and easily. ...


Canonical
18 August 2014

Telco clouds reach new heights with Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu OpenStack is not only the world’s most popular OpenStack distribution, but also the most dominant among so-called “OpenStack super-users”. Canonical works with 7 of the world’s largest Telcos to roll out innovative cloud services for internal and external customers. In the past year, the portfolio of products and services Canonical ...


Canonical
12 August 2014

CPLANE NETWORKS joins OIL

Cloud and server News

Our OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL) programme is currently testing and validating over 3,000 hardware and software configurations per month. We’re adding more and more partners to the list, and today we welcome CPLANE NETWORKS to OIL. CPLANE provides a scalable Software Defined Networking (SDN) product called Dynamic Virtual Networks ...


Canonical
8 August 2014

Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!

Ubuntu Design

Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle. As many of you will already know, each release we include photos and illustrations produced by community members. We ask that you submit your ...


Canonical
31 July 2014

Cloud 9 IDE now runs Ubuntu containers via Docker

Cloud and server Article

As announced during the Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS release, Docker is now fully integrated with Ubuntu Server, available through a simple apt-get. Since then, many individuals and companies have been doing some very cool things with Docker on Ubuntu, and we’ve decided to dedicate a blog series to highlighting those endeavours. Our first post ...


Canonical
31 July 2014

Bukwang Pharmaceuticals cut IT costs and created business value with Ubuntu

Desktop Case study

Challenge Bukwang Pharmaceuticals has been developing and manufacturing drugs and personal hygiene products in South Korea since 1960. Today, it has over 600 employees based at various sites across the country. Prior to its switch to Ubuntu, the company had 620 desktops, with 60% running Windows 7 and the remainder on Windows XP. When Mic ...


Canonical
30 July 2014

Nokia HERE maps coming to Ubuntu

Phone and tablet Article

HERE, a Nokia company and global leader in mapping and location intelligence, has been selected as a key provider of location positioning services on Ubuntu mobile devices. HERE will provide a hybrid solution integrating an A-GPS and WiFi positioning system. Although Ubuntu already features GPS-based location, GPS on its own is not suffic ...


Canonical
28 July 2014

Dell/Canonical Whitepaper: Juju with KVM and LXC in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Cloud and server White paper

This whitepaper, co-authored by Dell and Canonical,will show you how to easily deploy cloud services on a single Dell PowerEdge server or a laptop (if that’s all you have). It illustrates how easily you can take the cloud with you using Linux containers, virtualization and Juju orchestration software from Canonical. Though Juju is normall ...


Canonical
25 July 2014

Bringing fluid motion to browsing

Ubuntu User Experience

In the previous Blog Post, we looked at how we use the Recency principle to redesign the experience around bookmarks, tabs and history. In this blog post, we look at how the new Ubuntu Browser makes the UI fade to the background in favour of the content. The design focuses on physical impulse familiarity – ...