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Canonical
30 September 2015

PLUMGrid’s Open Networking Suite now available in the Charm Store

Cloud and server Article

Canonical, the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise, and PLUMgrid, the industry leader for secure and scalable virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds, today announced PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) charms are now available in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing, the Juju Ch ...


Canonical
29 September 2015

Azul Zulu 8 charm now available

Ubuntu Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Azul Zulu 8 is now available in the Juju charm store. With 300 charms and growing, the Juju charm store is the destination for cloud-based enterprise applications. Azul Zulu® is a certified, multi-platform build of OpenJDK that is compliant with the Java SE 8, 7, and 6 standards. As developers and ope ...


Canonical
28 September 2015

Why the first impression matters

Ubuntu User Experience

We believe that the first impression matters, especially when it comes to introducing a new product for the first time. Our aim is to delight the user from the moment they open the box, through to the setup wizard which will help them get started with their new device. Devices have become an essential part ...


Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

Cloud and server Article

Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback ...


John Zannos
28 September 2015

Ubuntu on Azure: Microsoft makes big decision on big data

Ubuntu Article

Azure HDInsight continues to validate Ubuntu’s cloud leadership Microsoft has selected Ubuntu for their first Linux-based Azure offering. The company announced today that their Hadoop-based big data service offering, HDInsight, will run on Ubuntu and Hortonworks. Microsoft and Canonical are committed to meeting customer needs as industry ...


Robin Winslow
28 September 2015

Prepare for when Ubuntu freezes

Ubuntu Notes

I routinely have at least 20 tabs open in Chrome, 10 files open in Atom (my editor of choice) and I’m often running virtual machines as well. This means my poor little X1 Carbon often runs out of memory, at which point Ubuntu completely freezes up, preventing me from doing anything at all. Just a ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
28 September 2015

Charm Partner Newsletter

Ubuntu Article

Welcome to the first edition of Canonical’s Charm Partner Newsletter. Read about the growing Juju ecosystem,  including the most recent additions to our Charm Store and our Charm Partner Programme. You’ll also learn about the latest features to land in Juju and tips and tricks from our Juju engineers. Overview We have welcomed a number of ...


Canonical
28 September 2015

Engineering Group joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Engineering Group, leading Italian software and service company that manages and develops SpagoBI suite, has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload de ...


Canonical
25 September 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Redis Labs

Cloud and server News

Canonical is excited to announce that Redis Labs has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. Juju makes it easy to deliver comp ...


Kevin W Monroe
24 September 2015

Realtime Syslog Analytics

Cloud and server Article

As Cory alluded to in our intro post, we’re excited to talk about a bundle that demonstrates an end-to-end Big Data solution: Realtime Syslog Analytics. Working with log data is a common Big Data task, and in this post, we’ll show how this bundle enables you to ingest, process, and visualize syslog data. This gives ...


Canonical
23 September 2015

PC Power Control with a Raspberry Pi and MAAS

Cloud and server Article

I recently decided to setup a small cluster of computers at home to be managed by Juju and MAAS. The computers are in the attic which meant that finger based power management was going to quickly lose its appeal. Many of my friends and colleagues have enviable home computer setups, with power control being done ...