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The value of the Ubuntu community

Without the community, Ubuntu would not exist. Ubuntu software is free and accessible to all and without the rich contributions, it wouldn’t be the service and brand it is today. The community is welcoming to people of all background and skills, it thrives to keep the Ubuntu project growing and is committed to open source

Cognitive computing, Ubuntu and POWER8

Create a competitive advantage with cognitive computing, and see how IBM has brought back innovation with the OpenPOWER foundation. Last week we attended IBM InterConnect 2016, where we showcased Ubuntu OpenStack, MAAS and Juju on IBM Power Systems. There is a natural synergy between the POWER architecture and Ubuntu, as both are designed

Intel and Canonical continue to build large IoT gateway ecosystems

Over the past year Intel and Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) have been working together to launch a number of new devices in the IoT space. In less than 9 months we have successfully brought to market a number of IoT gateways and reference designs, which have captured the attention of a number of product managers

Keynote: The Magic of Application Modelling

Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the Config Management Camp, Gent, Belgium

Juju 2.0 and LXD opens a whole new dimension to developing BI apps

I’ve been itching to write this post since I got back from Config Mgmt Camp in Gent a few weeks ago. The developers over at Canonical are gearing up to launch Juju 2.0. Maybe not yet a household name in the devops land but it is certainly making waves and with a company like Canonical

February’s reading list

Here are the best links shared by the design team during the shortest month of the year: Digital Design Education is Broken My Bathroom Mirror Is Smarter Than Yours Persona Never Ask What They Want—3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews Celebrating Cities: A New Look and Feel for Uber Pure CSS – Alarm

Mobile World Congress 2016, Big Event, Big Data

Philip McAleese talks sensor data and IoT bike lights Apparently, over 100,000 people attended Mobile World Congress 2016 this past week. I was one of them. One of 100,000 people that had to be registered, tracked, and admitted daily to the event. As small as I feel in that 100,000, that total is equal to

Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack

In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, Juju. Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands. Ubuntu is the most popul


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Juju Charmer Summit: Juju and Docker

 Docker is a great tool for developers, and Ubuntu is the number one platform for deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join Canonical’s Charles Butler to learn about the endless possibilities of this combination.

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT) services may be evol

MediaTek & Canonical partner to build app-enabled smart home gateways

Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company, MediaTek, and Canonical, are joining forces to build multi-purpose, future-proofed home gateways and premium routers based on the MediaTek smart home gateways chipset and ‘snappy’ Ubuntu Core. The home gateways will be capable of adapting to the evolving demands of the smart home, thanks to the ver

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to

Ubuntu at Embedded World: development boards, embedded PC and more

Embedded World Exhibition & Conference is taking place this week in Nuremberg, Germany – since 2003, each year the event offers the embedded community the opportunity to obtain information about new products and innovations and network with industry professionals. Canonical are attending Embedded World supporting partner activities, and m

Evolution of a Charm

Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack solution at full scale on a public cloud or just want to deploy services on your own private OpenStack cloud, Juju is the perfect solution. At Canonical, we have a team working to ensure that Juju works across all combinations of OpenStack. Join one of our OpenStack QA

Canonical to offer powerful ARM 64-bit IoT developer environment

  Today, Canonical announced that it will create an ARM 64 developer environment based on Ubuntu Core and on the DragonBoard™ 410c by Arrow Electronics, which features the 64-bit Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410 quad-core processor, a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated. This will be the very first ARM-b


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