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Robin Winslow
7 October 2015

Python learnings from PyCon

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The weekend before last, I went to PyCon UK 2015. I already wrote about the keynotes, which were more abstract. Here I’m going to talk about the other talks I saw, which were generally more technical or at least had more to do with Python. Summary The talks I saw covered a whole range of ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
7 October 2015

BootStack managed cloud factsheet

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BootStack, is a the fully managed cloud offer from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. BootStack is a true end to end offer including the design, implementation, and ongoing management of an OpenStack cloud on Ubuntu, followed by an optional transfer of the management function to the customer if desired. The cloud will be built on Ubunt ...


Canonical
6 October 2015

Managed Cloud Network Security from Zentera, Alliance and Canonical

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Zentera Systems, Inc., Alliance Technology Group and Canonical jointly announced today a collaboration to deliver secure hybrid networking solutions on top of Canonical’s managed OpenStack cloud, BootStack. The three companies will be exhibiting this collaboration during AWS re:Invent 2015, this week at Zentera’s booth #K21 in Las Vegas, ...


Canonical
6 October 2015

Get a Big Data Cloud Fast and Easy

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If you work with big data, then you know there’s an expanding ecosystem of software to process and analyze, and monitor and manipulate your data. You probably don’t have time to manually install, configure, connect, and test all of the different software and services available. But what if someone else set it all up for ...


Canonical
5 October 2015

APIDaze joins the Charm Partner Programme

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Canonical is excited to announce that APIDaze 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 complet ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2015

Scope Wonderland: Selected content

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We collaborated with the content creators Userfarm to ask filmmakers how they would interpret the richness of Scopes through an open video brief. Within the brief filmographers were asked to express the emotion, wonder and immersive discovery of a richer, fuller world with Scopes. A selection of entries came up that provided much food for ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2015

Ubuntu Hackathon: Bangalore Mobile Developer Summit

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Canonical are platinum sponsors at the Mobile Developer Summit in Bangalore this year, and will be hosting the very first Ubuntu hackathon in India from 15-16 October 2015. The Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD Ubuntu Edition smartphones were recently launched in India with Snapdeal . If you haven’t got your hands on one, they are ...


Tom Callway
5 October 2015

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

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Stephane Graber gave this talk at the recent Container Camp event on Sept 11th, 2015 at the Barbican Centre, London. He is a long time Open Source user and contributor mostly involved in the Edubuntu project, Ubuntu itself and LTSP. He is also the project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical. ...


Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

Internet of Things Article

IoT World: Hybrid, Erle and Canonical combine to commercialize IoT dev ROSCon: Canonical demonstrates power of apps on robots; shows Erle Spider Mark Shuttleworth keynote at ROSCon: secrets to ROS success   Canonical is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) innovation on tour over the few days; bringing a host of new developments to the ...


James Donner
1 October 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: September 2015

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The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo coming up and we’ve been focused on container technology, expanding our list of Charm Partners and launching the BootStack Calculator. Look out for our upcoming webinar focusing on easy ways to deploy Big Data services. Check out the latest news below!   BootStack Calculator Our newly-launched BootStack Calcu ...


Inayaili de León Persson
1 October 2015

September’s reading list

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Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual Emotional Intelligence in Design Earth View from Google Socality Barbie Origamica Hello, My Name is <Error> Design research guide Introducin ...