Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

478 posts


Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

Article Internet of Things

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region with a CAGR of 15% over the same period. It is this opportunity that Spanish company InnovaPOS, founded in 2014, was created to spearhead. Their vision

Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017


Guest
14 June 2017

Project Sputnik: crazy idea to community driven developer systems

Article Desktop

This is a guest post by Barton George from Dell. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-iot@canonical.com Five years ago, I pitched a crazy idea to an internal innovation team at Dell: what if Dell took its highest end laptop, pre-loaded Ubuntu on it, included all the needed drivers and

Guest
14 June 2017


Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS

Article Internet of Things

This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a blog inviting developers to contribute to the 3rd Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. The 2017 results are now published with a total of 713 respondents, from all

Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017


Canonical
9 May 2017

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

Case study Canonical announcements

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research...

Canonical
9 May 2017


Canonical
4 May 2017

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions based on Ubuntu OpenStack and NetApp storage Open Cloud Solution will help organisations build scalable and easily managed private and hybrid clouds NetApp data management and storage flash solutions integrated with Ubuntu OpenStack to supply open cloud...

Canonical
4 May 2017


Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Article Internet of Things

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of years of evolution in the industrial space especially. However traditional standardisation processes and proprietary implementations have been the norm. But the...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017


Canonical
24 April 2017

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

News Canonical announcements

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across...

Canonical
24 April 2017


Canonical
20 April 2017

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

News Canonical announcements

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare...

Canonical
20 April 2017


Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world....

Canonical
18 April 2017


Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the...

Canonical
13 April 2017


Jane Silber
12 April 2017

A new vantage point

Article Canonical announcements

I joined Canonical as COO in 2004, excited by the vision of Ubuntu and the possibilities that could unfold from the software, the collaboration with the open source community, the energy of an international, distributed start-up and the impact it could have on the world. When Mark asked me to become CEO in 2010, I

Jane Silber
12 April 2017


Canonical
3 April 2017

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing...

Canonical
3 April 2017


Canonical
23 March 2017

Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric

News Canonical announcements

Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany, March 23, 2017 – Huawei and Canonical today announced they are expanding their cooperation in enterprise and telecom clouds to announce that they have completed the...

Canonical
23 March 2017


Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017

The smart multi-personality vending machine

Article Internet of Things

This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and saves public health care billions. Sell you a house. Be your bank. Anything is possible.   The vending machine we displayed at MWC 2017 was

Maarten Ectors
13 March 2017