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Malta Sprint

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and

Cueing up users

The bottom edge swipe gesture is simple and accessible for users, so it’s strategic for application developers. By giving instant access to the most needed settings, controls, and views through the bottom edge, app developers have a powerful tool for crafting more useful and usable experiences. In earlier postings we’ve talked about how t

Showcasing Ubuntu at Mobile Asia Expo 2014

Shanghai’s Mobile Asia Expo kicks off this week and we’ll be there to show how Ubuntu has re-invented the way users engage with content and services. We’ll also be running Ubuntu on Meizu MX3 phones, taking part in Innovation Lab sessions and talking to the industry about our mobile strategy. China’s leading high-end smartphone manufactur

Canonical announces expanded Ubuntu support for the Cavium workload

Optimisation for deployment and provisioning cloud based workloads at scale London and Computex TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2014 – Canonical today announced expanded support for the ThunderX SoC family from Cavium, Inc., (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data centre

Deploying OpenStack all day long: The maths behind the magic.

Reflecting on my team’s experience at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, it was a lot of fun and truly inspiring. Once again Canonical’s presence at the OpenStack Summit was driven by doing things “for real”. Whether it’s in Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote, where he deployed multiple OpenStack clouds on multiple platforms, or indeed deploying O

Ubuntu’s support model fosters a strong ecosystem for OpenStack

Ubuntu was the first platform to embrace OpenStack, and OpenStack development largely happens on Ubuntu. As the reference platform for OpenStack, the majority of production deployments of OpenStack are on Ubuntu. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, provides large-scale commercial users with both professional services and support for Ope

Canonical joins the Cloud Foundry Foundation

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pleased to join the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Cloud Foundry has been a PaaS platform of choice for developers and Ubuntu has been all about developers since its inception. Even before the foundation had been announced Canonical was working with Pivotal to make Cloud Foundry best in class PaaS on al

Ubuntu Cloud documentation – 14.04 LTS

This article is out of date. Please visit ubuntu.com/autopilot for up-to-date instructions on installing OpenStack. Deploying production grade OpenStack with MAAS, Juju and Landscape This documentation has been created to describe best practice in deploying a production grade installation of OpenStack using current Canonical technologies,

The browser is dead. Long live the browser!

With the unstoppable rise of mobile apps, some pundits within the tech industry have hastily demoted the mobile web to a second-class citizen, or even dismissed it as ‘dead’. Who cares about websites and webapps when you can deliver a superior user experience with a native app? Well, we care because the reality is a

NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer

China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today announce a collaboration to bring OpenStack to the world’s fastest supercomputer for high performance cloud environments. The new collaboration with Canonical will enable Ubuntu Server, Ub

What’s new in Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS?

Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS, which goes live today, is the third Ubuntu LTS release designed for cloud. After more than four years, we finally see the cloud coming of age, with OpenStack at its heart. Ubuntu has for a long time been the platform of choice for running enterprise workloads such as web infrastructure. Today,

Ubuntu 14.04 desktop: trusted OS for consumers and business

14.04 LTS is a reliable, secure and intuitive release for enterprises, government and education. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is a cost-effective replacement for Windows XP or Windows 7 end of life. For the latest cloud news, see the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server announcement here. 16th April 2014, London: Canonical announces the latest Ubuntu release, 14.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: the cloud platform of choice

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is the platform for scale; delivers any workload on any substrate Telcos and cloud service providers trust Ubuntu for OpenStack and public cloud 14.04 Long Term Support release is Ubuntu’s third LTS cloud release London 15th April 2014: Canonical today announces Ubuntu 14.04 LTS will be released on 17th April 2014, bringi

OpenStack+VMware deployment stories: webinar Q&A

Canonical and VMware recently ran a joint webinar in which we shared customer stories from OpenStack+vSphere deployment projects. The webinar was a huge success with over 600 attendees and lots of great audience interaction. If you’ve missed it, watch the on-demand version here. Unfortunately, we ran out of time before addressing all audi