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Canonical and Qualcomm: delivering unprecedented scaling

Canonical has been one of the earliest visionary stalwarts igniting and driving early market enablement for 64-bit ARM server compute. With the commercial availability and support for Ubuntu Openstack on 64-bit ARM v8-A architecture, Canonical further accelerated the industry’s imagination for innovative platform architectures enabling th

Consortium GARR creates countrywide Federated Canonical OpenStack

GARR, Italy’s leading research and education network consortium, manages a fully owned fibre optic network of 15,000 Km dedicated to Italian Research and Education and offers high performance connectivity and advanced services to around 4 million users and over 1,200 research institutes, universities, research hospitals, cultural institut

Webinar: Delivering the value of IoT in the retail industry

    Register Now IoT is being embraced by an increasingly diverse set of sectors and one which is reaping the benefits is the retail sector, specifically supermarkets and how they are using data in cold-chain (refrigeration) solutions. For this webinar, join Paul Edrich, CTO of IMS Evolve, who is helping major supermarket chains to

ROS production: create Ubuntu Core image with snap preinstalled [5/5]

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a gadget snap to allow confined access to the Turtlebot. In this post, we’re going to put all the pieces from this series together and create an Ubuntu Core image with our ROS snap preinstalled,

Video: Managed OpenStack upgrades

The process of upgrading OpenStack releases can be challenging, given the many moving parts and the cadence of releases. In this use case video, Juan Carliante, Cloud Reliability Engineer for Canonical explains how Canonical’s BootStack  Engineering team solves issues arising during the upgrade process quickly using Juju, an open-source a

Discord is now available as a snap for Ubuntu and other distributions

There’s a new desktop snap in the Snap store: Discord. Ever heard of Discord? Within 1.5 years of its launch Discord has become an almost mandatory tool for gamers. Adoption has been wild, from streaming to a Twitch account to voice calls to sync up on gaming tactics. But Discord can also be used as

Canonical’s support for Kubernetes 1.6.2 released

We’re proud to announce support for Kubernetes 1.6.2 in the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes Charms. This is a pure upstream distribution of Kubernetes, built with operators in mind. It allows operators do deploy, manage, and operate Kubernetes on public clouds, on-premise (ie vSphere, OpenStack), bare metal, and de

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions

Canonical and NetApp collaborate to supply open cloud solutions based on Ubuntu OpenStack and NetApp storage Open Cloud Solution will help organisations build scalable and easily managed private and hybrid clouds NetApp data management and storage flash solutions integrated with Ubuntu OpenStack to supply open cloud solutions for the ente


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April’s reading list

Here are the best links shared by the design team in April 2017: Joe Coleman: Sliding degrees of ‘hard sell’ Mockuuups Studio & Sketch Reasons to conference 2017: Design, Code & Create Hamburger Menu Alternatives for Mobile Navigation Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Simple Icons On conference proposal rejections Implementing system f

Cloud Chatter: April 2017

Welcome to our April edition. We begin with our recent release of Ubuntu 17.04 supporting the widest range of container capabilities. We have a selection of Kubernetes webinars for you to watch, or get up to speed with some indepth tutorials. Read about our exciting partnership announcements with Oracle, City Network, AWS and Unitas Globa

ROS production: obtaining confined access to the Turtlebot [4/5]

This is the fourth blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we created a snap of our prototype, and released it into the store. In this post, we’re going to work toward an Ubuntu Core image by creating what’s called a gadget snap. A gadget snap contains information such as

Designing in the open

Over the past year, a change has emerged in the design team here at Canonical: we’ve started designing our websites and apps in public GitHub repositories, and therefore sharing the entire design process with the world. One of the main things we wanted to improve was the design sign off process whilst increasing visibility for

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of years of evolution in the industrial space especially. However traditional standardisation processes and proprietary implementations have been the norm. But the slow nature of their

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across the globe can purcha

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that prototype as a snap. For justifications behind why we’re doing this, please see the first post in the series. We know from the previous post

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Services


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