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Canonical
2 February 2015

Fujitsu joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Cloud and server News

Canonical today is delighted to welcome Fujitsu, the third-largest IT service provider globally, as its first  Certified Public Cloud partner in Asia. Fujitsu Cloud services portfolio covers Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service as well as cloud management platforms and a wide range of professional m ...


Canonical
2 February 2015

openHAB

Cloud and server Article

openHAB is a free software for individual smart home hubs. It is highly flexible and extensible and adapts much better to the users needs than most commercial offerings. Ubuntu Snappy Core makes it possible to pre-package and distribute openHAB for a large variety of embedded platforms. Ubuntu Snappy Core will greatly facilitate the insta ...


Ellen Arnold
2 February 2015

hSenid Mobile joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Article

hSenid Mobile is the most recent addition to the growing Charm Partner Programme.  The programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployments and an easy way to deliver solutions in minutes. “We bel ...


Maarten Ectors
2 February 2015

Snappy Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Cloud and server Article

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu Core is available fo ...


James Donner
30 January 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: January 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Article

This month, we had some news on Snappy, MAAS and Mojo, but also the results to our annual cloud survey are in! If that was not enough, find out more about our event plans over the next few weeks and sign up for our latest webinar! Here’s a quick recap of an exciting start to 2015. “Snappy” ...


Canonical
29 January 2015

Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey reveals hybrid cloud, SDN and IoT on the rise

Cloud and server Article

Canonical ran its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud usage. This year, the ...


Robin Winslow
28 January 2015

Auto-syncing revision history from Github to Launchpad

Ubuntu Featured

In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning we work in both Bazaar and Git. The need to synchronise Github to Launchpad Some of our Github projects need to be also stored in Launchpad, as some of our systems only have access to ...


Jorge O. Castro
28 January 2015

Datacentres in Containers, and Containers in Datacentres

Cloud and server Case study

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire datacentres in shipping cont ...


Robin Winslow
27 January 2015

Converting projects between Git and Bazaar

Ubuntu Featured

Here in the design team we use both Bazaar and Git to keep track our projects’ hostory. We quite often end up coverting our projects from Bazaar to Git or vice-versa. Here are some tips on how to do that. To convert revision history between Git and Bazaar, we will use their respective fast–import features. ...


Tom Haddon
20 January 2015

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled part 2

Cloud and server Article

In the previous post we introduced Mojo. Today we’re going to take a closer look at how it all fits together. mojo run is the most often used command. As a refresher, here’s the diagram explaining how Mojo’s manifest can be used in different environments: Mojo looks for a manifest file that defines the steps ...


mark
20 January 2015

Smart things powered by snappy Ubuntu Core on ARM and x86

Internet of Things Article

Smart things powered by Ubuntu Core have automated, transactional security updates and access to a huge range of software for app developers. We hope it will be useful for the next generation of incredible machines and are delighted to be launching it with the support of a wide range of software and hardware specialists that are leading t ...