Blog posts tagged
"Canonical"

103 posts


Canonical
12 June 2015

Zabbix + IoT/Snappy: allows users to feel the pulse of things

Article Cloud and server

Things around us are becoming smarter every day and many tasks we use to perform manually are becoming automated. As our dependency on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology grows, we need to make sure such devices work reliably, securely and don’t fail with the tasks we entrust to them. Implementation of such control...

Canonical
12 June 2015


Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

Article Cloud and server

LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than...

Canonical
18 May 2015


John Zannos
6 May 2015

Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership

Article Cloud and server

Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are looking for a scalable cloud infrastructure that is able to take advantage of the features of advanced enterprise storage — but want to avoid the current complexity...

John Zannos
6 May 2015


Tom Callway
16 April 2015

Ubuntu OpenStack Summit Vancouver presentations

Article Cloud and server

  Please join us at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit. We’ll be giving the following presentations: Tuesday, May 19 Evil Superuser’s HOWTO: Launching instances to do your bidding 11:15am You click ‘run’ on the OpenStack dashboard, or launch a new instance via the api. Some provisioning magic happens and soon you’ve got a...

Tom Callway
16 April 2015


Tom Callway
19 February 2015

Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution

Article Cloud and server

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on...

Tom Callway
19 February 2015


Canonical
29 August 2014

Canonical recognised as Tech Pioneer by WEF

Article Desktop

We’re really excited to announce that Canonical has been selected as one of the 2015 World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers. The award was given to Canonical in the Digital Networks and Computing category, which recognises organisations involved in computer hardware, software and networks, as well as their applications for...

Canonical
29 August 2014


Canonical
29 August 2013

Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Article Cloud and server

Joining Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud Programme is the only way to ensure that your customers get the best Ubuntu experience in your public cloud. The programme offers a comprehensive set of tools and services to give you peace of mind and allow for a superior customer service. Read this factsheet to understand...

Canonical
29 August 2013


Canonical
19 March 2013

13.04 wallpapers submitted

Design Ubuntu

  The community team for wallpaper selection got together last week #1304wallpaper on Freenode and between us we’ve determined that we’d like to submit the following images as our delightful wallpaper selection for 13.04. Many thanks to everyone who came to discuss options and help with the selection and in particular...

Canonical
19 March 2013


David Duffey
11 March 2013

Canonical and Dell expand joint PowerEdge Server engineering and support

Ubuntu Advantage Ubuntu

Today we announced a collaborative support and engineering agreement with Dell.  As part of this agreement Canonical will add Dell 11G & 12G PowerEdge models to the Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS Certification List and Dell will add Ubuntu Server to its Linux OS Support Matrix. In May 2012, Dell launched the OpenStack Cloud...

David Duffey
11 March 2013


Canonical
14 February 2013

Canonical exhibiting at CeBIT 5-9 March 2013

Canonical News Ubuntu

We are exhibiting at this year’s CeBIT event on March 5-9th, 2013 in Hannover Germany, in conjunction with our partner in the region, Teuto.net and we’re giving away number of free tickets to selected customers and partners. If you are interested in one of these tickets, please contact me at...

Canonical
14 February 2013


Canonical
18 September 2012

Humble Indie Bundle 6 brings six new games to the Ubuntu Software Center

Partners Ubuntu

UPDATE: We’ve just added four more amazing titles to the Humble Indie Bundle 6! If you’ve already picked up a bundle, you’ll find BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Gratuitous Space Battles, Jamestown, and Wizorb available now if you beat the average. This brings the bundle to ten games strong! Humble Indie Bundle 6 is upon us – and

Canonical
18 September 2012


Canonical
21 August 2012

New focus for wallpaper submissions

Design Ubuntu

Quantal is well on the way to being the great release we’ve come to expect from Ubuntu so it’s time to add to that sheen with a set of quality wallpapers from our fantastic community. This cycle we’re going to try to make the process better than before by setting out a clearer vision for

Canonical
21 August 2012


Canonical
18 June 2012

Dell Extends Ubuntu Retail into India

Article Ubuntu

Back in October 2011 we launched a joint initiative with Dell in China to sell machines pre-loaded with Ubuntu through their retail stores. The stores featured Ubuntu on a wide range of Dell computers, carried Ubuntu branded marketing collateral in-store, had trained staff positioning the benefits and advantages of...

Canonical
18 June 2012


Jane Silber
20 April 2012

Make your voice heard in the open standards debate

open source Ubuntu

If you’re a keen follower of all things open source, you might already know about the UK Government’s consultation on open software standards. In short, the Government wants to reduce its IT costs and improve interoperability across all its departments and agencies; sensible aims, indeed. It is therefore considering...

Jane Silber
20 April 2012