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Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

Internet of Things News

Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft & DataArt London and San Francisco, May, 11 2015 – Canonical is collaborating with some of the world’s smartest technology brands, including GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft ...


Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

Internet of Things News

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart refrigerator in the Ubuntu booth (Stand 545) at the second annual Internet of Things World conference at the Moscone Center on May 12 – 13, 2015. ChillHub is a refrigerator with two ...


Maarten Ectors
11 May 2015

First drone with apps – Ubuntu Core Drone

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post from Victor Mayoral from Erle Robotics. Erle-Copter: the first drone with apps powered by Ubuntu Core Over the last months and with the support of Canonical, Erle Robotics engineers have been working hard to bring the first drone with apps to the market. Last week Erle Robotics introduced Erle-Copter Ubuntu ...


Canonical
7 May 2015

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

Cloud and server Article

The hSenid Cloud Telco Application Platform (Cloud TAP) is now available in Canonical’s Juju Charm Store. The Charm works with Juju from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Juju allows developers to design their application architecture like they would on a virtual whiteboard, with boxes for services, and lines to connect them. The Juju ...


Samuel Cozannet
7 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 2

Cloud and server Article

In the first part of this two part blog we looked at why Canonical believes a new language is needed for modeling modern applications in the cloud. In this second blog we will apply these high-level concepts to build a modular and scalable sentiment analysis application with Juju, using components such as Kafka, ZooKeeper, Storm ...


John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

Cloud and server Article

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity of creating and depl ...


Samuel Cozannet
6 May 2015

Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1

Cloud and server Article

Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of applications hasn’t changed that much. This has led to major inefficiencies in their design. In the first part of this two part blog, I will explain why Canonical believes that ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Article

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...


Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

Cloud and server Article

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com

Desktop News

A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence within the UK 05 May 2015, London: Electronic Commerce Retailer Ebuyer has launched a series of AMD-based HP laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. These devices are perfect for business an ...


Canonical
5 May 2015

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

Cloud and server Article

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be running within a Cloud environment where a meta-data source is provided. But since OVA is a virtualization appliance format, users have expressed some confusion as how they ...