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John Zannos
5 January 2016

OpenPOWER Foundation: Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

Ubuntu Article

Today, I am pleased to announce that I have accepted my nomination to be the new Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation. OpenPOWER represents a gigantic leap forward in revolutionizing the datacenter through open hardware and open software like Linux. Through open source we innovate, collaborate, and scale, and my increasing role within OpenPO ...


Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Cloud and server Article

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything is nice and compart ...


Inayaili de León Persson
4 January 2016

December’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Happy 2016! Here are the best links shared by the design team in December: Stance Star Wars socks 24 Ways Sketch Blog: Leaving the Mac App Store 12 Devs Web Development Calendars for 2015 These photos are why I’m trapped in Tokyo forever now Inside Abbey Road Improve the Apple remote with a purple rubber ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

Cloud and server Article

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count all of the Ubuntu ...


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 ...