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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
20 June 2016

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of what you want to do, Then [BootStack] is a very good place to start. The University of Cape Town (UCT), in South Africa, recently ...

Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently, Network ...

Canonical
14 June 2016

Universal “snap” packages launch on multiple Linux distros

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Developers from multiple Linux distributions and companies today announced collaboration on the “snap” universal Linux package format,  enabling a single binary package to work perfectly and securely on any Linux desktop, server, cloud or device. This community is working at snapcraft.io to provide a single publication mechanism for any s ...

Canonical
6 June 2016

Vendors embrace Juju model-driven operations

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 OpenStack operations   ...

Canonical
11 May 2016

App design guide to go live (bit by bit)

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

In the coming months we will be rolling out the new app design guidelines, which will give you the latest toolkit best practices and patterns so you can make your own convergent app for Ubuntu. Why do we need design guidelines? The guidelines are a big part of communicating design practices and philosophy to the ...

Canonical
26 April 2016

Wolfram Research releases Data Drop Logging app for Ubuntu Phone

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical and Wolfram Research® are excited to announce the first app collaboration with cloud connect functionality for Ubuntu developers and users. The Wolfram Data Drop™ Logging mobile application is available now on the Ubuntu Phone and is already available to download from the Ubuntu Store. This is the first in a series of initiative ...

Canonical
20 April 2016

Canonical unveils 6th LTS release of Ubuntu with 16.04

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Introduces “snaps” for new robust, secure app format Introduces LXD pure-container hypervisor with OpenStack Mitaka Supports IBM Z and LinuxONE systems with flat pricing Steps towards converged Ubuntu across IOT, Phone, Desktop and Server Introduces ZFS and CephFS for large-scale cloud storage LONDON 20th April 2016: Canonical announced t ...

Canonical
12 April 2016

Ubuntu OpenStack growth confirmed by latest OpenStack User Survey

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The most recent OpenStack user survey has gone live. In it we see tremendous growth for Ubuntu OpenStack in production clouds. We’re super excited about the support the community continues to show for Ubuntu. Here at Canonical we get to work with the world’s largest production OpenStack clouds, from telco to big data and pure ...

Canonical
11 April 2016

Nexenta & Canonical to Deliver Joint Software-Defined Storage Solution

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

NexentaEdge Charms now available via Juju Charm Store; Canonical to offer NexentaEdge to enterprise customers SANTA CLARA, Calif. and LONDON, UK – April 6, 2016 — Nexenta, the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and Ubuntu OpenStack, have today jointly announced ...

Canonical
7 April 2016

LXD networking: lxdbr0 explained

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Recently, LXD stopped depending on lxc, and thus moved to using its own bridge, called lxdbr0. lxdbr0 behaves significantly differently than lxcbr0: it is ipv6 link local only by default (i.e. there is no ipv4 or ipv6 subnet configured by default), and only HTTP traffic is proxied over the network. This means that e.g. you ...

Canonical
29 March 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 beta now available for LinuxONE and z Systems

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 16.04 is now available on IBM LinuxONE, System z12 and z13 providing an idea platform for developers using IoT applications. Ubuntu is the platform of choice for organisations running scale-out, next-generation workloads in the Cloud. Ubuntu dominates public cloud guest volume and production OpenStack deployments with up to 70% mar ...

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