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Udi Nachmany
3 November 2016

Open Telekom Cloud joins Certified Public Cloud

Canonical announcements Article

Official Ubuntu images for public cloud VMs, with European data sovereignty through T-Systems’ Open Telekom Cloud Data sovereignty is one of the hot topics in cloud computing—but especially over the past year as new EU regulations have come into play. At the same time, US-based public cloud providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM and ...


Canonical
3 November 2016

Join the Ubuntu community at UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany

Phone and tablet Article

This year was the year of the first UbuCon Summit which took place in Pasadena in January. The next big Ubuntu event is just around the corner: the very first UbuCon Europe in Essen, Germany on the 19th and 20th November. The first international UbuCon in Europe UbuCon Europe is the first conference dedicated to ...


Guest
2 November 2016

Static code analyser for Ubuntu

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Ekaterina Milovidova, from viva64. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Static code analysis is the process of detecting errors and flaws in the source code of programs. There is a large number of static analysis tools created for various programming languages th ...


Inayaili de León Persson
1 November 2016

October’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the month of October: Don’t Let Email Zombies Eat Up Your Day SuperHi: Learn to code in London, New York City and online Halloween Costumes for Designers The Worst Portfolio Ever The Sanctity of Your Calendar Using Normal doors to inform your next design ...


Canonical
31 October 2016

Webinar: Deploying Microsoft technologies on OpenStack

Cloud and server Webinar

Watch On Demand In this webinar we explore the common challenges organisations face in deploying and managing Windows workloads at scale on OpenStack. We look at how Windows Charms can integrate seamlessly with existing Juju Charms to provide a powerful way to reduce workload deployments from days to minutes on both bare metal and public ...


Dustin Kirkland
31 October 2016

Dirty COW was livepatched in Ubuntu within hours of publication

Cloud and server Article

If you haven’t heard about last week’s Dirty COW vulnerability, I hope all of your Linux systems are automatically patching themselves…Why?  Because every single Linux-based phone, router, modem, tablet, desktop, PC, server, virtual machine, and absolutely everything in between — including all versions of Ubuntu since 2007 — was vulnerabl ...


Guest
27 October 2016

Travel-friendly Lemur Ubuntu laptop updated to Kaby Lake

Desktop Article

This is a guest post by Ryan Sipes, community manager at System76. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com We would like to introduce you to the newest version of the extremely portable Lemur laptop. Like all System76 laptops the Lemur ships with Ubuntu, and you can choose between 16.04 ...


Guest
27 October 2016

Snapping Cuberite

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest post by James Tait, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com I’m a father of two pre-teens, and like many kids their age (and many adults, for that matter) they got caught up in the craze that is Minecraft. In our house ...


Canonical
25 October 2016

Infographic: Ubuntu Advantage explained

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu Advantage is the commercial support package from Canonical. It includes Landscape, the Ubuntu systems management tool, and the Canonical Livepatch Service, which enables you to apply kernel fixes without restarting your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems. Ubuntu Advantage gives the world’s largest enterprises the assurance they need to run m ...


Ellen Arnold
24 October 2016

Learn about Open Source technologies on Microsoft Azure

Cloud and server Article

Canonical will be taking part in Microsoft and IDC’s Enterprise Open Source Roadshow this autumn and winter.  This roadshow will pass through many western European countries and showcase a number of Open Source technologies that are driving change in the software-defined datacentre. IDC predicts that by 2017, over 70% of enterprise compan ...


Canonical
21 October 2016

Managing your physical infrastructure from the top of rack switch

Cloud and server Article

At the last OpenStack Design Summit in Austin, TX we showed you a preview of deploying your physical server and network infrastructure from the top-of-rack switch, which included OpenStack with your choice of SDN solution. This was made possible by disaggregating the network stack functionality (the “N” in Network Operating System) to run ...