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It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my friends. I have a few things in mind, one is to ride a century ride on my bike this year (that’s 100 miles or 160km). Another is to

Canonical is excited to announce that WANdisco has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers get the best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based ap

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That’s a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.Over the years, Ubuntu has changed and has lead change to keep thri

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including OpenStack, Inkscape & MySQL. There are two main data stores in Launchpad. The first is the Librarian, which is a 22TB object store using OpenStack’s Swift as its backend. The second

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part of Ubuntu and provides an array of components and flexibility needed to create applications across staged and windowed form

Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack solution at full scale on a public cloud or just want to deploy services on your own private OpenStack cloud, Juju is the perfect solution. At Canonical, we have a team working to ensure that Juju works across all combinations of OpenStack. Join one of our OpenStack QA

I recently read on a Wall Street Journal blog that IDC says the IoT market is supposed to reach $1.7 Trillion by 2020. Let’s be clear here, not 1.7 BILLION, but 1.7 TRILLION US Dollars. At Canonical, we’re feverishly working to help our telco and service provider partners best monetize themselves in that burgeoning space.

This eBook describes what analytics processes telcos should be implementing to most benefit from the tremendous amounts of data available to them. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: How big data and analytics can mitigate many of the challenges faced by modern telecoms providers? How a data-first approach by telcos to

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, the next generation of remote controlled drones is being unveiled by UAVIA, powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core. For the first time, UAVIA is demonstrating a new generation of completely remote controlled drones. The first being used for inspection and surveillance. This will be the first time that 100% remotely op

We’re only two months away from our next Juju Charmer Summit, and we can’t wait to share our latest developments and innovations in charm design, best practices, and real deployment expertise from experienced DevOps folks. Get more information here! In the meantime, we have more exciting content to share from our previous summit. Join Mar

6WIND to Integrate Virtual Accelerator with Juju 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced it will work with Canonical to help customers accelerate cloud networking on Ubuntu. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ has been validated on Canonical’s Ubuntu platform and both companies are working together to integrate 6WIND

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   Canonical today published a virtual appliance to help organisations experience first-hand the easiest wa

Here are the best links shared by the design team in November: Interview with Darrin Henein Rapid Prototyping with Gulp, Framer.js and Sketch: Part One Visualizing Sketch 3.4 New Features UX Myths Pantone Smoothies Shia LaBeouf “Just Do It” How To Go To Space (with XKCD!) Astropy: A Community Python Library for Astronomy Typing “a

We will soon push an update of the Suru icon theme that includes more device icons in order to support the Ubuntu convergence story. Because the existing icon set was focused on mobile, many of the new icons are very specific to the desktop, as we were missing icons such as hard disk, optical drive,

With last week’s announcement of Autopilot GA, we’re making the installation of OpenStack easier than ever. But once you’ve deployed OpenStack using our Autopilot tool, what’s next? Have you considered Juju for Big Data? Canonical’s service modeling tool allows you to deploy cloud services in seconds. With Big Data on the rise, Juju is be

Sometimes it is just quicker to type a few commands on the cli than opening your browser window, going to jujucharms.com and typing out a search term to see what is available to you. So I wrote a tiny plugin to speed that up a bit. Install the plugin Currently supports Trusty, Vivid, and Wily