Blog posts written by Canonical

Canonical
22 February 2017

Why does software-defined everything matter?

Article Cloud and server

Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving calls. That’s because phones have evolved from single function device to malleable pocket computers whose entire purpose is defined by the apps that

Canonical
22 February 2017

Screenly announces a follow-up to its popular digital signage solution

Article Internet of Things

Screenly’s platform has grown to run over 10,000 screens in less than four years Making it the largest commercial deployment of Raspberry Pi for digital signage Enables rich content in-store screens to be flexible media platform Screenly 2 has been rebuilt from scratch with Ubuntu Core to bring more and easier to use...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Webinar: Get cloud-ready servers in minutes with MAAS

Webinar Cloud and server

Learn how to take full advantage of existing hardware investments by maximising hardware efficiency. This live webinar was broadcasted on Wednesday 15th Mach 2017. Watch it on-demand now. Data center operators are quickly becoming more automated and need to have the flexibility to leverage their hardware infrastructure...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Canonical
20 February 2017

IOTA: IoT revolutionised with a ledger

Article Internet of Things

Ever since the introduction of digital money, the world quickly came to realize how dire and expensive the consequences of centralized systems are. Not only are these systems incredibly expensive to maintain, they are also “single points of failures” which expose a large number of users to unexpected service...

Canonical
20 February 2017

Canonical
16 February 2017

Lime Microsystems and Canonical announce LimeNET crowdfunding

Article Internet of Things

Sequel to initial $1million successful crowdfunding campaign follow hugely successful first round of crowdfunding for open-source, 5G and IoT capable SDR with app stores Second round will provide a market for round-one developers to sell their apps on the first open source mobile and IoT base station with app stores New...

Canonical
16 February 2017

Canonical
9 February 2017

openHAB arrives as a snap!

Article Internet of Things

openHAB is a completely open source smart home alternative to Apple Homekit and Samsung SmartThings. Consumers can mix and match hardware and services from different brands London, UK – February 9th, 2017: Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart...

Canonical
9 February 2017

Canonical
8 February 2017

Community Initiative UBports launches Ubuntu Fairphone 2

Article Phone and tablet

The Ubuntu Community UBports has one mission: to have the open source software Ubuntu on every device, starting with smartphones. UBports’ actions are based on collaborative development where developers are putting Ubuntu on different smartphones. During the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona end of February UBports...

Canonical
8 February 2017

Canonical
7 February 2017

Who should bear the cost of IoT security: consumers or vendors?

Article Internet of Things

Anyone using the internet in Europe and the US on 21st October last year experienced what economists call an externality. It arrived in the form of a massive 1.2 Tbps DDoS attack on Dyn, a US-based internet infrastructure company. This, in turn, triggered outages at multiple sites – including PayPal, Twitter, Amazon and...

Canonical
7 February 2017

Canonical
30 January 2017

48% of people unaware their IoT devices pose a security threat

Article Internet of Things

LONDON, U.K. – 30 January, 2017 – Nearly half (48%) of citizens remain unaware that their connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new IoT security whitepaper which was published today by Canonical – the makers of Ubuntu. The report, which includes research from...

Canonical
30 January 2017

Canonical
23 January 2017

What IT pros need to know about server provisioning

White paper Cloud and server

Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are...

Canonical
23 January 2017

Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Article Cloud and server

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at ubuntu.com/livepatch or update to newest kernel and reboot. Linux kernel vulnerability 7th December 2016 (LSN-0014-1) Details: A race condition in the af_packet implementation in...

Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical
8 December 2016

Mounting your home directory in LXD

Article Cloud and server

As of LXD stable 2.0.8 and feature release 2.6, LXD has support for various UID and GID map related manipulaions. A common question is: “How do I bind-mount my home directory into a container?” and before the answer was “well, it’s complicated but you can do it; it’s slightly less complicated if you do it

Canonical
8 December 2016

Canonical
1 December 2016

Canonical’s Distribution of Kubernetes reduces operational friction

Article Cloud and server

Linux containers (LXC) are one of the hottest technologies in the market today. Developers are adopting containers, especially Docker, as a way to speed-up development cycles and deliver code into testing or production environments much faster than traditional methods. With the largest base of LXC, LXD, and Docker...

Canonical
1 December 2016

UbuCon Europe – a sure sign of community strength

Article Desktop

UbuCon Europe, 18-20 Nov 2016, Essen, Germany Recovering from a great UbuCon Europe session that just took place a couple weeks ago! This year was attended by 170 people from 20 countries, about half coming from Germany. Almost everyone was (obviously) running Ubuntu and had been around in the community for years. The...

Canonical
1 December 2016