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Canonical
24 November 2015

Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack

Case study Cloud and server

London-based Opus 2 International is an independent software and services provider specialising in technology for the legal profession. Opus 2’s flagship service, Magnum™, is built entirely on Ubuntu OpenStack and has dramatically simplified the way in which legal evidence is managed: Opus 2 Magnum™ users report 66%...

Canonical
24 November 2015

Canonical
20 November 2015

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Featured Ubuntu

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an operating system, it is a whole community in which everybody collaborates with everybody to bring to the life a wonderful human experience. When you download the

Canonical
20 November 2015

Canonical
19 November 2015

Phone Update: OTA-8

Article Phone and tablet

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates are provided below: New weather application Improved Contacts sync (implements a new syncronisation engine) The sound indicator now provides audio playback controls – currently play and pause only, skip forward/skip backward to follow New Twitter scope includes the ability to...

Canonical
19 November 2015

MariaDB the newest member of the Charm Partner Programme

News Cloud and server

Canonical is excited to announce that MariaDB 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. Juju makes it easy to deliver complete solutions in minutes, on virtually any public or private cloud...

Canonical
19 November 2015

Canonical
18 November 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Opencell

Article Ubuntu

Canonical is excited to announce that Opencell has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP 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. The Juju Charm Store has over...

Canonical
18 November 2015

Canonical
17 November 2015

Canonical’s Openstack Autopilot dramatically reduces cloud costs

News Cloud and server

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs. Fully automated bare-metal OpenStack deployment and operations tool Intelligent...

Canonical
17 November 2015

BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones land in Russia

News Phone and tablet

The BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition and shortly the E4.5 Ubuntu Edition to be sold in Russia through through a host of local Russian distributors Phones will come preloaded with a number of scopes specifically developed for the Russian market including big name draws like VKontakte, Yandex, Mail.Ru and Kinopoisk After...

Canonical
17 November 2015

Canonical
16 November 2015

Juju and Remote LXD Host

Article Cloud and server

The team I am a part of at Canonical has been working on implementing a Juju provider for LXD. One of the goals of this provider is to improve the Juju experience when working and developing locally. You can try it yourself, but you will have to build Juju from source, the branch is available

Canonical
16 November 2015

Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Article Cloud and server

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the...

Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical
2 November 2015

DJI launches most-powerful computer for drones – on Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

The new Manifold is a high-performance embedded computer that cuts processing time and optimizes real-time data analysis for drones. Fully compatible with DJI’s Matrice 100, the Manifold unlocks the full potential of aerial platforms. DJI, the world leader in creative aerial technology, today announced the launch of the...

Canonical
2 November 2015

Canonical
30 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

Article Cloud and server

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature highlighted keynote sessions like days one and two. But it did have an entire Canonical track schedule, which kicked off with Mark Shuttleworth talking about why we build

Canonical
30 October 2015

Canonical
29 October 2015

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

Article Cloud and server

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get

Canonical
29 October 2015

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

News Cloud and server

Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, has announced the integration of its flagship Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology with Ubuntu...

Canonical
29 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

Article Cloud and server

The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business drivers, and the purposes of why we’re building scalable clouds. Resonant Japan talked about accelerating business operations, cost reductions, and supporting the...

Canonical
29 October 2015