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Join us for Canonical’s 2015 OpenStack Roadshow

Join Canonical for “OpenStack In Action” See the world’s most popular Openstack implementation in action, gain insights from the world’s largest OpenStack deployments in telco, finance, media and government environments, meet the architects of Canonical’s OpenStack strategy, and exchange views on requirements for enterprise private clouds

Ubuntu delivers a bulletproof media production platform

Ubuntu has transformed the ability of Carbonado Intermedia and Auteuristic to remain lean and yet deliver its digital content both on time and on budget. Crashes and the costs associated with them have become a thing of the past.

BQ’s new Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition – the smartphone that puts content and services at your fingertips

First Ubuntu smartphones available in the coming days with BQ on the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu’s Scopes introduce a new mobile experience for users, a smarter ecosystem dynamic for developers, and unprecedented differentiation opportunities for device manufacturers and mobile carriers Operators in Europe, including 3 Sweden, amena.com, giffgaff

Fujitsu joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Canonical today is delighted to welcome Fujitsu, the third-largest IT service provider globally, as its first  Certified Public Cloud partner in Asia. Fujitsu Cloud services portfolio covers Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service as well as cloud management platforms and a wide range of professional m

openHAB

openHAB is a free software for individual smart home hubs. It is highly flexible and extensible and adapts much better to the users needs than most commercial offerings. Ubuntu Snappy Core makes it possible to pre-package and distribute openHAB for a large variety of embedded platforms. Ubuntu Snappy Core will greatly facilitate the insta

Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey reveals hybrid cloud, SDN and IoT on the rise

Canonical ran its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud usage. This year, the

Ubuntu Core on Internet Things

New Snappy Ubuntu Core on smart devices delivers bullet-proof security, reliable updates and the enormous Ubuntu ecosystem at your fingertips – bringing the developer’s favourite cloud platform to a wide range of internet things, connected devices and autonomous machines. “We are inspired to support entrepreneurs and inventors focused on

VirtualBox extensions for MAAS

During the last season’s holidays, I spent some time cleaning up demos and code that I use for my daily activities at Canonical. It’s nothing really sophisticated, but for me, and I suspect for some others too, a small set of scripts makes a big difference. In my daily job, I like to show live

Snappy Ubuntu Core now on the hypervisor of your choice with OVA

When we launched snappy Ubuntu Core, we introduced it on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, Amazon’s AWS and our KVM images. Immediately, developers were asking questions like, “where’s the Vagrant image?”, which we launched on 14 January 2015. The one final remaining question was “where are the images for ?”. We h

Announcing snappy Ubuntu Core on Vagrant cloud

Last month, Canonical announced snappy Ubuntu Core, the new, transactional version of Ubuntu, designed for public clouds. So far, snappy Ubuntu Core images are available on Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine, and Amazon AWS. Today, we are delighted to announce the addition of Vagrant images to this impressive line-up [1, 2]. These ima

A year in the Cloud

The Ubuntu Cloud Zeitgeist: a year in retrospective The new year is a perfect occasion to reflect on the road we just covered and how far we have come just in this past year. We opened 2014 shipping the new Ubuntu Server 14.04 on April 17, our third LTS release designed for the cloud.  Including

Snappy Ubuntu Core now on AWS

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  Snappy Ubuntu Core is a new ultra fast Ubuntu that is designed for extremely fast deployment on Amazon EC2. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the popular cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image

Developer Innovation Contest launched with China Mobile

“AND Your Dream Come True” Million Youths Entrepreneurship and Employment Programme “Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest” officially launched China Mobile and its industry partner Canonical today announce the launch of the “Ubuntu Developer Innovation Contest”, aimed at giving young developers new, innovative entrepreneurial opportunities

Snappy Ubuntu Core comes to Google Compute Engine

Canonical is delighted to announce the availability of snappy Ubuntu Core on Google Compute Engine, making the fastest Ubuntu now instantly accessible on the fastest cloud in the industry. Ubuntu Core is the new “snappy” rendition of the world’s favourite cloud OS, with a very lean and secure base image that features transactional updates

A new, transactionally updated “snappy” Ubuntu Core

Today we’re announcing “snappy” Ubuntu Core, a new rendition of Ubuntu for the cloud with transactional updates. Ubuntu Core is a minimal server image with the same libraries as today’s Ubuntu, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism. The snappy approach is faster, more reliable, and lets us provide stronger security gua

Canonical and Data Foundry to provide hosted private cloud

Canonical announces a partnership with Data Foundry, a leading provider of global data centre, colocation and managed services, to offer a fully managed private cloud service powered by OpenStack. The service will be hosted in Data Foundry’s premium data centres and global colocation facilities and operated by its experienced team. The of