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James Donner
22 December 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: Docker Lightning Talk

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu is the number one platform for Docker deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join Canonical’s Charles Butler for a five minute lightning talk to learn about What the Juju team are doing with Docker The Juju Solutions community on Github The ...


James Donner
18 December 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015

Cloud and server Article

With the holiday season upon us, we are feeling festive! Before you start your holiday, here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to lately! We have just release an eBook on Big Data for Telcos and a new webinar about upgrades of OpenStack with running workloads. Meanwhile, we have news about new Charm partners ...


Canonical
16 December 2015

Resolving Big Data in the New Year

Cloud and server Article

It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my friends. I have a few things in mind, one is to ride a century ride on my bike this year (that’s 100 miles or 160km). Another is to ...


Canonical
15 December 2015

WANdisco joins the Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server News

Canonical is excited to announce that WANdisco has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers get the best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based ap ...


Canonical
14 December 2015

Ubuntu is about people

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That’s a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.Over the years, Ubuntu has changed and has lead change to keep thri ...


Tom Haddon
10 December 2015

Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers

Cloud and server Article

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including OpenStack, Inkscape & MySQL. There are two main data stores in Launchpad. The first is the Librarian, which is a 22TB object store using OpenStack’s Swift as its backend. The second ...


Femma
10 December 2015

Helsinki SDK sprint

Ubuntu User Experience

We arrived in Helsinki on Sunday evening, ready to start our week long SDK sprint on Monday. Our hotel was in a nice location, by the sea. The work stuff The SDK is a core part of Ubuntu and provides an array of components and flexibility needed to create applications across staged and windowed form ...


James Donner
9 December 2015

Juju Charmer Summit: Charm Evolution

Cloud and server Article

Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack solution at full scale on a public cloud or just want to deploy services on your own private OpenStack cloud, Juju is the perfect solution. At Canonical, we have a team working to ensure that Juju works across all combinations of OpenStack. Join one of our OpenStack QA ...


Canonical
9 December 2015

Capturing the real IoT market, Telcos taking a data first approach

Cloud and server Article

I recently read on a Wall Street Journal blog that IDC says the IoT market is supposed to reach $1.7 Trillion by 2020. Let’s be clear here, not 1.7 BILLION, but 1.7 TRILLION US Dollars. At Canonical, we’re feverishly working to help our telco and service provider partners best monetize themselves in that burgeoning space. ...


Tom Callway
9 December 2015

Analytics and Big Data, Flexible Solutions for Evolving Telcos

Cloud and server White paper

This eBook describes what analytics processes telcos should be implementing to most benefit from the tremendous amounts of data available to them. Download this eBook to answer the following questions: How big data and analytics can mitigate many of the challenges faced by modern telecoms providers? How a data-first approach by telcos to ...


Thibaut Rouffineau
8 December 2015

UAVIA unveils first 100% remotely controlled drones; powered by Ubuntu

Internet of Things News

Today, at TechCrunch Disrupt, the next generation of remote controlled drones is being unveiled by UAVIA, powered by Snappy Ubuntu Core. For the first time, UAVIA is demonstrating a new generation of completely remote controlled drones. The first being used for inspection and surveillance. This will be the first time that 100% remotely op ...