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5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Cloud and server Article

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the density of KVM for ...


April Wang
4 November 2015

Another wave of hacking in China this time with TechCrunch

Internet of Things Article

After undertaking several Ubuntu Phone led hackathons in Beijing and Shenzhen, we embraced the opportunity to be part of the TechCrunch one this past weekend in Beijing (31st Oct-1st Nov). This hackathon afforded us the chance to meet more Ubuntu fans, introduce the OS to more developers and interact with participants from past hackathons ...


James Donner
3 November 2015

ODS Tokyo: OpenStack For Everyone

Cloud and server Article

We kicked off OpenStack Summit Tokyo’s Thursday Track Day with Mark Shuttleworth’s opening address, “OpenStack for Everyone”. You can watch it yourself below” Highlights Large OpenStacks Are Choosing Ubuntu – Every six months, the OpenStack Foundation does a survey of users. In the most recent one, the number of participants doubled and t ...


Udi Nachmany
2 November 2015

Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu

Cloud and server Article

A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant, Interoute VDC is the cloud services platform developed by Interoute Communications, the owner-operator of Europe’s largest network. Interoute’s network offering spans the globe, enc ...


Canonical
2 November 2015

DJI launches most-powerful computer for drones – on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

The new Manifold is a high-performance embedded computer that cuts processing time and optimizes real-time data analysis for drones. Fully compatible with DJI’s Matrice 100, the Manifold unlocks the full potential of aerial platforms. DJI, the world leader in creative aerial technology, today announced the launch of the DJI Manifold, a hi ...


Serge Hallyn
30 October 2015

Nested containers in LXD

Cloud and server Article

We’ve long considered nested containers an important use case in lxc. Lxd is no different in this regard. Lately there have been several questionsIf you are using privileged lxd containers (security.privileged: true), then the only thing you need to do is to set the security.nesting flag to true:lxc launch ubuntu nestc1 -c security.nest ...


Maarten Ectors
30 October 2015

#InternetOfToys – let the toy battles begin

Internet of Things Article

Wouldn’t it be great to play with toys and get paid for it? If this sounds like music to your ears, then this blog post is for you. If you are a business person who thinks toys are just child’s play, then you should read on as well! It’s true that Industrial IoT will generate ...


Canonical
30 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

Cloud and server Article

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature highlighted keynote sessions like days one and two. But it did have an entire Canonical track schedule, which kicked off with Mark Shuttleworth talking about why we build ...


Randall Ross
29 October 2015

Everyone Can Have a New “Datacenter” Right Now, Even You!

Cloud and server Article

A (new) datacenter? Me? Really? Why would I want that? Answer 1: Because if you’re an individual, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved by consuming one more app from a store. Answer 2: Because if you’re a company, you have problems to solve that cannot be solved economically (if at all) by ...


Cory Johns
29 October 2015

Now you’re charming with layers

Cloud and server Article

Charming with layers is a relatively new approach to writing charms that we, as the Juju community, are begining to use. The idea is to allow better re-use of common code in charms, more well-defined and consistent implementations of interface protocols, and generally allow charm authors to focus on the parts of the charm that ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

Cloud and server Article

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get ...