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Blog posts with topic "canonical-announcements"

Udi Nachmany
5 April 2017

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

Cloud and server Article

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the EC2 Quickstart, Mark ...

Canonical
5 April 2017

Scalable, secure access to data with DBaaS on IBM LinuxONE

Cloud and server Article

Imagine a world where developers can quickly stand-up new applications and database instances – without having to worry about limits to database growth or risks to data security. Now imagine a world where enterprises and service providers can combine this outstanding scalability and security with the benefits of relational and NoSQL data ...

Canonical
4 April 2017

Nexiona collaborates with Canonical and Dell to create MIIMETIQ Edge

Internet of Things Article

There is a perception that IoT projects are complex, expensive and therefore limited to larger companies that have the means to manage them. However, the reality is very different. Nexiona, creators of IoT technology for system integrators, has developed a package that’s affordable to all company sizes – with a process that’s simple enoug ...

Inayaili de León Persson
4 April 2017

What we learned at our first official GV design sprint

Ubuntu Research

Last month the web team ran its first design sprint as outlined in The Sprint Book, by Google Ventures’ Jake Knapp. Some of us had read the book recently and really wanted to give the method a try, following the book to the letter. In this post I will outline what we’ve learned from our ...

Guest
3 April 2017

The MirAL story

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Alan Griffiths, Software Developer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m Alan Griffiths and I’m a software developer. Being a software developer means I deal with a lot of problems that are rarely appreciated by non-developers. This is a story ab ...

James Donner
3 April 2017

Cloud Chatter: March 2017

Cloud and server Article

Our March edition is packed with exciting content. We begin with our recent announcement of Ubuntu 12.04 Extended Security Maintenance providing ongoing security updates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS at least another year. Download our latest ‘Carrier Cloudification’ eBook, or join our upcoming webinars on OpenStack, Containers, GPUs/Deep Learning ...

Inayaili de León Persson
3 April 2017

March’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In Great README A list of 30 women rocking in UX to celebrate International Women’s Day Design Better Cards Chat Systems Google gives Hangouts a Slack makeover ...

Canonical
3 April 2017

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Canonical announcements News

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing global cloud players ...

David Callé
30 March 2017

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

Internet of Things Article

The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what makes possible the installation and management of applications packaged as snaps. In a nutshell, if you have systems using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, welcome to a brand new world! How ...

Stéphane Graber
29 March 2017

USB hotplug with LXD containers

Cloud and server Article

USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an Android phone or some IoT device that you need to interact with.Similar to what I wrote recently about GPUs, LXD supports passing USB devices into containers. Again, similarly to the G ...

Guest
29 March 2017

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Some time ago I got vaguely interested into photogrammetry, that is the reconstruction of a 3D model out of a set of plain 2D photographs. I just thought that it was ...

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