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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


Canonical
7 July 2015

Ubuntu to ship on Lenovo laptops in India

Desktop Article

Lenovo to start shipping Ubuntu preloaded laptops in India starting with the Thinkpad L450 This marks the first joint launch for Canonical and Lenovo in India; building on the strong momentum Ubuntu has already achieved in the region Devices to be largely sold through selected commercial resellers/distributors across India Lenovo will be ...


Jorge O. Castro
6 July 2015

Juju at Dockercon 2015

Cloud and server Article

Canonical sent three Juju Ecosystem developers and one Juju core developer to Dockercon 2015 in San Francisco during which we participated in a multi-company hackathon team; threw a marketing event featuring industry luminaries; and made connections with many potential charm authors and partners. We learned loads, preached a lot of good J ...


Artur Tyloch
1 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 1

Cloud and server Article

I joined Canonical a year ago to work with the telco ecosystem – Network Operators, Communication Equipment Providers and innovative new players and startups interested in expanding or building their presence in the telco domain. During this year we have worked on many projects focused on the deployment of Virtual Network Functions in clo ...


Canonical
30 June 2015

Publishing LXD images

Cloud and server Article

While some work remains to be done for ‘lxc publish’, the current support is sufficient to show a full cycle of image workload with lxd.Ubuntu wily comes with systemd by default. Sometimes you might need a wily container with upstart. And to repeatedly reproduce some tests on wily with upstart, you might want to create a container image ...


Adam Israel
25 June 2015

Announcing Benchmarking with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Benchmarking and performance are interesting problems, especially in today’s growing cloud-based microservice scene. It used to be a question of “how does this hardware compare to that hardware,” but as computing and service-oriented architectures grow the question has evolved. How does my cloud and application stack handle this? It’s no ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Ubuntu Fan Images

Cloud and server Article

This week, Dustin Kirkland announced the Ubuntu Fan Project.  To steal from the description, “The Fan is not a software-defined network, and relies on neither distributed databases nor consensus protocols.  Rather, routes are calculated ...


Canonical
24 June 2015

Meizu Launches the MX4 Ubuntu Edition in Europe

Phone and tablet Article

Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition phones will be available for purchase on 25th of June Phones will be available in Europe and by invite only accessed through an interactive origami wall on Meizu’s online site The MX4 Ubuntu Edition was also launched on 17th of May to developers in China Smartphone manufacturer Meizu, in partnership with ...


Francesco Banconi
19 June 2015

Juju Quickstart 2.2.0

Cloud and server Article

We are happy to announce the 2.2.0 release of Juju Quickstart! Juju Quickstart helps both new and experienced users to quickly start Juju and the Juju GUI, whether they’ve never installed Juju or they have an existing Juju environment running. From the last update on this blog, we introduced several new features like support for ...


Canonical
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments.   Mellanox is the leading supplier ...


Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Cloud and server Article

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control requires ...


Dustin Kirkland
11 June 2015

How many containers can you run on your machine?

Cloud and server Article

652 Linux containers running on a Laptop?  Are you kidding me???A couple of weeks ago, at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canonical released the results of some scalability testing of Linux containers (LXC) managed by LXD.Ryan Harper and James Page presented their results — some 536 Linux containers on a very modest little Intel server ...


Canonical
9 June 2015

teuto.net uses Ubuntu to bring IBM POWER8 to thepublic cloud

Cloud and server Case study

The German IT company teuto.net specializes in providing linux, hosting, cloud and web development services. In 2014, teuto.net created the brand “teutoStack“ for offering a wide range of services for customers interested in OpenStack cloud technology. In addition to consulting, training, operating and support services for private clouds, ...