Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

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Canonical
30 August 2016

Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab

Article Canonical announcements

Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand opening of its new hardware lab space in Menlo Park to validate and certify software solutions and Canonical was one of the first to test its solutions are OCP...

Canonical
30 August 2016


Jane Silber
25 August 2016

25 years on and Linux is still going strong

Article Canonical announcements

I embarked on the Linux journey in 2004 when I joined the newly founded Canonical and its not-yet-named Ubuntu team. I knew there was incredible opportunity around Linux but even then it wasn’t clear how pervasive Linux would become in all corners of technology, industry and society. Linux started its journey as a platform for

Jane Silber
25 August 2016


Canonical
22 August 2016

QTS and Canonical unveil private, fully managed OpenStack cloud

News Canonical announcements

OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS, and LONDON, U.K. (August 22, 2016) – Responding to increasing demand for flexible, open source and cost-predictable cloud solutions, QTS Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: QTS) and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing)...

Canonical
22 August 2016


Canonical
5 August 2016

IBM and Canonical: This Is Just The Beginning

Article Cloud and server

The partnership between Canonical and IBM continues to thrive. As we embark on the era of Containerization, Cloud, NFV, IoT, and Machine Learning, companies like IBM are innovating to meet the demands of modern computing. We caught up with IBM’s GM of Power Systems, Doug Balog, at OpenStack Summit Austin to get his...

Canonical
5 August 2016


Stephanie
2 August 2016

The App Design Guides go live (bit by bit)

Article Desktop

The App Design Guides have a new design and content refresh to better communicate the new convergent UI toolkit, and visualise best practice for designers and developer wishing to build an app or scope on Ubuntu. We will be posting these guides over the coming days and weeks. What’s to come… Phase 1 – Get

Stephanie
2 August 2016


April Wang
28 July 2016

Bubblegum-96 boards powered by Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

  We are pleased to announce that an image of Ubuntu Core is officially available for uCRobotics’ Bubblegum-96 board. The board includes an optimised Actions‘ s900 Quad-core ARM 64-bit Cortex-A53 processor running at 1.8GHz and 600MHz PowerVR G6230 high-quality graphics with 2GB of DRAM and USB 3.0 support. This makes...

April Wang
28 July 2016


Will Cooke
28 July 2016

Ubuntu version 16.04 point 1 is out

Article Desktop

Today we have enabled upgrade notifications from 14.04 LTS to the first point-release for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, versioned 16.04.1. The first point release for an LTS comes out 3 months after the initial release and then every 6 months until the next LTS is released.  Upgrade notifications happen a short while later after...

Will Cooke
28 July 2016


Brent Clements
14 July 2016

How Canonical Battles Zero-Day​ Threats

Article Cloud and server

I work for Canonical as a Consulting Architect. Every design I put together I try to secure as best as possible. One reason I came to Canonical was because of the way we handle security updates and our approach to security.  This blog post outlines how we handle updates, specifically around zero-day vunerabilities. We...

Brent Clements
14 July 2016


Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

News Cloud and server

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a...

Canonical
13 July 2016


Canonical
29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

Article Cloud and server

Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining your own project parts, you can now use and share them from a common, open, repository. This

Canonical
29 June 2016


Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

Article Cloud and server

I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can listen to it here.These guys — Jerod and Adam — produce a fantastic show, and we covered a lot

Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016


James Mulholland
14 June 2016

The App Design Clinics are back!

Featured Ubuntu

We’re very happy to announce the return of the Ubuntu App Design Clinics. The first session is planned for 4.00PM BST on Friday the 17th of June, with subsequent sessions occurring at 4.00PM BST on Thursdays. We’ll be on camera talking to Dan Wood regarding his work on the OwnCloud App. Feel free to drop

James Mulholland
14 June 2016


Adam Stokes
9 June 2016

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

Article Cloud and server

Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation? Wish you could just tell folks to just...

Adam Stokes
9 June 2016


Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

News Cloud and server

Vendors delivering SAAS experience on-premises with Juju charms Charms encapsulate deployment, integration, management, support, operations Reusable charms greatly reduce the operations cost of big software Centres of gravity around big data, machine learning and container management Rapid growth in use of Juju for...

Canonical
6 June 2016