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Canonical
5 October 2015

APIDaze joins the Charm Partner Programme

Ubuntu Article

Canonical is excited to announce that APIDaze has joined the Charm Partner Programme. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. Juju makes it easy to deliver complet ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2015

Scope Wonderland: Selected content

Phone and tablet Article

We collaborated with the content creators Userfarm to ask filmmakers how they would interpret the richness of Scopes through an open video brief. Within the brief filmographers were asked to express the emotion, wonder and immersive discovery of a richer, fuller world with Scopes. A selection of entries came up that provided much food for ...


Amrisha Prashar
5 October 2015

Ubuntu Hackathon: Bangalore Mobile Developer Summit

Phone and tablet Article

Canonical are platinum sponsors at the Mobile Developer Summit in Bangalore this year, and will be hosting the very first Ubuntu hackathon in India from 15-16 October 2015. The Aquaris E4.5 and E5 HD Ubuntu Edition smartphones were recently launched in India with Snapdeal . If you haven’t got your hands on one, they are ...


Tom Callway
5 October 2015

[Video] An introduction to LXD, the container lighter-visor

Cloud and server Article

Stephane Graber gave this talk at the recent Container Camp event on Sept 11th, 2015 at the Barbican Centre, London. He is a long time Open Source user and contributor mostly involved in the Edubuntu project, Ubuntu itself and LTSP. He is also the project lead for LXD and LXC at Canonical. ...


Maarten Ectors
2 October 2015

Canonical launches new ‘#InternetOfToys’ initiative with partners

Internet of Things Article

IoT World: Hybrid, Erle and Canonical combine to commercialize IoT dev ROSCon: Canonical demonstrates power of apps on robots; shows Erle Spider Mark Shuttleworth keynote at ROSCon: secrets to ROS success   Canonical is taking its Internet of Things (IoT) innovation on tour over the few days; bringing a host of new developments to the ...


James Donner
1 October 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: September 2015

Cloud and server Article

The OpenStack Summit in Tokyo coming up and we’ve been focused on container technology, expanding our list of Charm Partners and launching the BootStack Calculator. Look out for our upcoming webinar focusing on easy ways to deploy Big Data services. Check out the latest news below!   BootStack Calculator Our newly-launched BootStack Calcu ...


Inayaili de León Persson
1 October 2015

September’s reading list

Ubuntu Notes

Here’s a selection of the links we shared in September: Evolving the Google identity Guidelines for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps Screenings Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual Emotional Intelligence in Design Earth View from Google Socality Barbie Origamica Hello, My Name is <Error> Design research guide Introducin ...


Canonical
30 September 2015

PLUMGrid’s Open Networking Suite now available in the Charm Store

Cloud and server Article

Canonical, the leading provider of services for Ubuntu deployments in the enterprise, and PLUMgrid, the industry leader for secure and scalable virtual network infrastructure for OpenStack clouds, today announced PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite (ONS) charms are now available in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing, the Juju Ch ...


Canonical
29 September 2015

Azul Zulu 8 charm now available

Ubuntu Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Azul Zulu 8 is now available in the Juju charm store. With 300 charms and growing, the Juju charm store is the destination for cloud-based enterprise applications. Azul Zulu® is a certified, multi-platform build of OpenJDK that is compliant with the Java SE 8, 7, and 6 standards. As developers and ope ...


Canonical
28 September 2015

Why the first impression matters

Ubuntu User Experience

We believe that the first impression matters, especially when it comes to introducing a new product for the first time. Our aim is to delight the user from the moment they open the box, through to the setup wizard which will help them get started with their new device. Devices have become an essential part ...


Jorge O. Castro
28 September 2015

Executive Summary from the Juju Charmer Summit 2015

Cloud and server Article

Last week members of the Juju community gathered in Washington DC for the first ever Juju Charmer Summit. The goal of the summit was to help our users better understand what’s happening in the Juju community and be able to grow their skills, and for us it was a tremendous opportunity to collect real-world feedback ...