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Canonical
10 October 2014

Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today

Desktop News

Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Chrome is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. Netflix subscribers who already use Ubuntu can now watch simply by installing the Chrome browser. Netflix gives Ubun ...


John Zannos
30 September 2014

Ubuntu and HP’s Moonshot extend the benefit of the ARM architecture to the data centre

Cloud and server News

Hyperscale, scale out and cloud computing are the hot topics in the server space today. Driven by increasing Internet traffic, massive amounts of data and widespread adoption of Linux-based open source workloads, companies ranging from Paypal and Bloomberg to Facebook are taking a fresh look at their approach to data centre infrastructure ...


John Zannos
23 September 2014

Oracle and Canonical collaborate on support for Oracle Linux on Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

Canonical and Oracle are collaborating to offer customers support for both Ubuntu and Oracle Linux as fully supported guests on one another’s respective OpenStack offerings. As part of this collaboration, Canonical will support Ubuntu as a guest OS on Oracle Linux OpenStack, and Oracle will support Oracle Linux as a guest OS on Ubuntu Ope ...


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
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
16 July 2014

Canonical welcomes Brightbox to its Certified Public Cloud Programme as first European partner

Cloud and server News

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience – this is the aim of our Certified Public Cloud programme. So we are very excited today to welcome Brightbox as the programme’s newest partner and our very first European cloud partner. Brightbox is a great match for us, with their strong reputation for ...


Canonical
3 June 2014

Canonical announces expanded Ubuntu support for the Cavium workload

Cloud and server News

Optimisation for deployment and provisioning cloud based workloads at scale London and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Canonical today announced expanded support for the ThunderX SoC family from Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre ...


Canonical
29 May 2014

Canonical joins the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Cloud and server News

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pleased to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry has been a PaaS platform of choice for developers and Ubuntu has been all about developers since its inception. Even before the foundation had been announced Canonical was working with Pivotal to make Cloud Foundry best in class PaaS on al ...


Dustin Kirkland
20 May 2014

Cloudbase Solutions partnership

Cloud and server News

We are happy to announce a partnership with Cloudbase Solutions for bringing Windows support in Juju and MaaS. During the keynote of the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta we presented OpenStack integration with Hyper-V as well as Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint Juju charms, providing a clear idea of the huge potential of this partne ...


Canonical
16 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 desktop: trusted OS for consumers and business

Desktop News

14.04 LTS is a reliable, secure and intuitive release for enterprises, government and education. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a cost-effective replacement for Windows XP or Windows 7 end of life. For the latest cloud news, see the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server announcement here. 16th April 2014, London: Canonical announces the latest Ubuntu release, 14. ...


Canonical
15 April 2014

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice

Cloud and server News

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the platform for scale; delivers any workload on any substrate Telcos and cloud service providers trust Ubuntu for OpenStack and public cloud 14.04 Long Term Support release is Ubuntu’s third LTS cloud release London 15th April 2014: Canonical today announces Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be released on 17th April 2014, bringi ...