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Canonical
13 November 2014

Community interview: Victor Thompson and Andrew Hayzen

Ubuntu Featured

Victor and Andrew are two inspiring Community developers that have devoted their spare time to contribute to the Ubuntu Touch Music App team. I sat down with them during the Washington Device Sprint in October where they told us how they drew inspiration from the Design Team, and what drives them to contribute to Ubuntu. ...


Canonical
6 November 2014

Putting your OpenStack on autopilot

Cloud and server Article

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.   Download your personal cloud architect Last week, we released the Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenS ...


Dustin Kirkland
4 November 2014

LXD – the Linux container daemon

Cloud and server News

Dustin Kirkland, Product Manager at Canonical introduces LXD (lex-dee), a new hypervisor that delivers capabilities to LXC containers that cloud users demand in scale out infrastructure. LXD is a persistent system daemon developed to enable the secure management and live migration of LXC (lex-cee) containers via an easy to use command lin ...


John Zannos
4 November 2014

EMC partners with Ubuntu for OpenStack storage

Cloud and server Article

Canonical is pleased to announce an expansion of EMC’s participation as an Ubuntu Cloud Partner.  Today at the OpenStack Paris Summit, EMC announced two new offerings – an OpenStack Reference Architecture Program and an EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud (EHC) OpenStack®-powered Edition. This announcement is an indication of EMC’s continued comm ...


Canonical
4 November 2014

Community interview: Riccardo Padovani and Filippo Scognamiglio

Ubuntu Design

We sat down with some of Ubuntu’s unsung Community heroes at the recent Devices Sprint in Washington D.C. Riccardo and Filippo are two young and passionate developers who have adapted their own software to benefit the whole of the Ubuntu Community. We spoke about how and why they contribute to Ubuntu, and what motivates them to ...


John Zannos
3 November 2014

PMC Joins Canonical’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Cloud and server News

As the OpenStack ecosystem continues to grow rapidly, so too does our OpenStack Interoperability Lab. It tests and validates the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. Today, we welcome PMC-Sierra, Inc. to OIL. PMC is a semiconductor and so ...


Canonical
3 November 2014

Certified Ubuntu images available on Google Cloud Platform

Cloud and server News

Canonical, working with Google, today is launching the public beta of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS and 14.10 on Google Cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform is a collection of cloud services that allows customers to create anything from simple websites to complex applications. Starting today, it is possible to select optimised, up to date, ...


John Zannos
3 November 2014

Midokura joins OIL and opens MidoNet SDN

Cloud and server News

Midokura, a network virtualisation specialist, has today joined the Ubuntu Cloud Partner Programme. As part of this programme, Midokura’s MidoNet technology, a software-defined virtual network solution designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) clouds, will be part of Ubuntu’s OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL). MidoNet will benefi ...


Canonical
3 November 2014

Extreme OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Extreme OpenStack From instant solutions for big data and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) to a revolution in container technology and the easiest way to build an OpenStack cloud, we will show you exactly why we are the leaders in scale-out technology. Come and see us at the Paris OpenStack Summit › Mark Shuttleworth Keynote Watch Mark Shuttl ...


Canonical
31 October 2014

Washington Devices Sprint

Ubuntu Featured

Introducing myself as the new and only content designer in the Design Team, I dived head first into the world of developers, designers and Ubuntu Community members to better understand how open source works, and the passion behind making Ubuntu great. This post features highlights from the sprint and an interview with UX designers Olga ...


Tom Haddon
30 October 2014

ScalingStack: 2x performance in Launchpad’s build farm with OpenStack

Cloud and server Article

Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects, and it includes a build service with over 11,000 Personal Package Archives (PPAs). We’ve recently made some major changes to the underlying infrastructure of this system by migrating it to an OpenStack instance that we call ...