Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"

478 posts


Canonical
21 September 2015

Why I like Juju….

Article Cloud and server

  A long time ago Canonical (of Ubuntu fame) got in touch with us and asked if we’d like to bring Saiku to their new Juju platform. We were sceptical and semi agreed but ended up getting diverted to other stuff and never got started. Then a few months ago Canonical (still of Ubuntu fame)

Canonical
21 September 2015


Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015

5 Reasons why you should learn OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

After the remarkable success of the recent OpenStack days in Taiwan, Seattle and Silicon Valley (Benelux is next, September 17th), and as we head towards the next OpenStack Design Summit in Tokyo, I feel it is a great time to give you the following piece of advice: You should learn OpenStack. The sooner, the better. Let...

Arturo Suarez
1 September 2015


Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015

Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Article Cloud and server

As we’ve mentioned before, Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. OpenStack is, in fact, built on Ubuntu, and its cycles of development are based on Ubuntu’s release schedules. In the public cloud, Ubuntu as a guest OS has also proven to be the developers’ choice, with roughly...

Udi Nachmany
31 August 2015


Maria Bonnefon
27 August 2015

Windows 10: is it finally time to migrate to Ubuntu?

Article Desktop

Public and private enterprises across the world have been using Microsoft Windows for years, but it calls into question whether this is in fact the best choice or simply force of habit? With recent security and performance issues coming to the fore, an increasing number of companies are exploring the benefits of using...

Maria Bonnefon
27 August 2015


April Wang
26 August 2015

Winners crowned in the China Mobile and Ubuntu developer contest

Article Phone and tablet

Just recently the ‘’And your Dream come true’’ Innovation contest, launched by China Mobile and Canonical, drew to a close. The competition attracted both Ubuntu enthusiasts and developers nationwide, affording them the opportunity to help fast-track the new Ubuntu mobile ecosystem. This contest has provided a creative...

April Wang
26 August 2015


Canonical
20 August 2015

Aquaris E4.5 and E5 Ubuntu Editions debut in India with Snapdeal

Article Phone and tablet

The Aquaris E4.5 and Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Editions to be sold through Indian online marketplace, Snapdeal Marks the inaugural launch of Ubuntu phone in India following a successful rollout of the Aquaris E4.5 and Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Editions in Europe Phones will come preloaded with a number of scopes developed specifically...

Canonical
20 August 2015


Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015

Ubuntu and LXD at ContainerCon 2015

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is delighted to sponsor ContainerCon 2015, a Linux Foundation event in Seattle next week, August 17-19, 2015. It’s quite exciting to see the A-list of sponsors, many of them newcomers to this particular technology, teaming with energy around containers. From chroots to BSD Jails and Solaris Zones, the concepts...

Dustin Kirkland
12 August 2015


Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015

How Netflix tunes Ubuntu on EC2

Tutorials Cloud and server

One of the nice things about having Netflix running Ubuntu is that the community can take advantage of the lessons they learn about running services at scale. I had the pleasure of attending Brendan Gregg’s Linux Profiling at Netflix talk at SCALE13x and afterwards he gave me a list of things that Netflix did to Ubuntu

Jorge O. Castro
11 August 2015


Canonical
10 August 2015

BQ goes global with Ubuntu

Article Phone and tablet

The successful European launches of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition and it’s slightly larger brother, the BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition, have seen the appetite for Ubuntu phones grow the world over.

Canonical
10 August 2015


Amrisha Prashar
7 August 2015

Celebrate the new Film Scope with DJ Yoda

Article Phone and tablet

With the launch of the new Film Scope on the Ubuntu phone, users can now watch movie trailers, read reviews and discover film choices. We’ve managed to get Sci-Fi fan and famous DJ Yoda on-board to be part of a new competition we’re launching. We’re inviting the public to create their own Sci-Fi film GIFS

Amrisha Prashar
7 August 2015


Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015

Introducing Turku: Cloud-Friendly Backups for Your Infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

It’s a topic many people don’t like to think about: backups. In addition to making sure your cloud environments are correctly deployed, highly available, secured and monitored, you need to make sure they are backed up for disaster recovery purposes. (And no, replication is not the same as backups.) Canonical’s IS team...

Ryan Finnie
4 August 2015


Canonical
3 August 2015

Juju – It’s About Building Relationships!

Article Cloud and server

I admit it, I was excited about Juju before I even fully understood it. But isn’t that part of the magic of anything called Juju? I’m new to Canonical, I’m less than a month into my tenure here. But I’m already super excited to have joined. What has me so excited? The company‘s vision, and

Canonical
3 August 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015

ODS Video: OpenStack Interoperability Lab

Videos Cloud and server

As OpenStack cloud innovation progresses, we’re focused on finding ways to fully automate OpenStack deployment. As regular readers know, part of this goal sees us work with technology vendors across the gamut of hardware, networking and storage solutions to test, validate and guarantee their components. The aim? To...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
29 July 2015


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015

ODS Video: Driving quality control into OpenStack cloud development

Videos Cloud and server

How do we make sure Ubuntu offers the best possible ecosystem of both hardware and software components for OpenStack? Chris Kenyon talks about how we’re driving quality into the OpenStack deployment journey in the latest of our OpenStack Summit keynotes. As the cloud landscape matures, enterprise customers are looking...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 July 2015