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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
18 November 2015

Charm Partner Programme welcomes Opencell

Ubuntu Article

Canonical is excited to announce that Opencell has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s universal service modeling tool, Juju; enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling with a click of a mouse. The Juju Charm Store has over 300 cloud based appl ...


Canonical
17 November 2015

Canonical’s Openstack Autopilot dramatically reduces cloud costs

Cloud and server News

Thanks for your interest in Ubuntu OpenStack. Canonical has sunsetted OpenStack Autopilot and replaced it with conjure-up. We welcome you to visit our OpenStack product page to find an Ubuntu OpenStack solution that meets your needs.   Fully automated bare-metal OpenStack deployment and operations tool Intelligent hardware mapping optimis ...


Canonical
17 November 2015

BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Edition phones land in Russia

Phone and tablet News

The BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition and shortly the E4.5 Ubuntu Edition to be sold in Russia through through a host of local Russian distributors Phones will come preloaded with a number of scopes specifically developed for the Russian market including big name draws like VKontakte, Yandex, Mail.Ru and Kinopoisk After previous successful lau ...


Canonical
16 November 2015

Juju and Remote LXD Host

Cloud and server Article

The team I am a part of at Canonical has been working on implementing a Juju provider for LXD. One of the goals of this provider is to improve the Juju experience when working and developing locally. You can try it yourself, but you will have to build Juju from source, the branch is available ...


Canonical
5 November 2015

Canonical launches world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD

Cloud and server Article

London, November 5th 2015 – Canonical today released in beta the world’s fastest hypervisor, LXD, which takes a pure-container approach to Linux virtualization and offers dramatic performance and density advantages over VMware ESX and Linux KVM for private and public cloud infrastructure. LXD delivers up to 15 times the density of KVM for ...


Canonical
2 November 2015

DJI launches most-powerful computer for drones – on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Article

The new Manifold is a high-performance embedded computer that cuts processing time and optimizes real-time data analysis for drones. Fully compatible with DJI’s Matrice 100, the Manifold unlocks the full potential of aerial platforms. DJI, the world leader in creative aerial technology, today announced the launch of the DJI Manifold, a hi ...


Canonical
30 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Three

Cloud and server Article

Mark Shuttleworth talks about why we build tools like OpenStack, its new features and how it is evolving for everyone. Day three of the summit didn’t feature highlighted keynote sessions like days one and two. But it did have an entire Canonical track schedule, which kicked off with Mark Shuttleworth talking about why we build ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

The Ubuntu Online Summit starts next week

Cloud and server Article

Starting on Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th of November, a new edition of the Ubuntu Online Summit is taking place next week. Three days of free and live content all around Ubuntu and Open Source: discussions, tutorials, demos, presentations and Q+As for anyone to get in touch with the latest news and technologies, and get ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

Midokura Integrates its Network Virtualization Technology with Ubuntu

Cloud and server News

Midokura’s MidoNet Now Available to Canonical Customers Via Juju Charms Plugin, Offers Networking Overlay That Is Both Easy to Deploy and Scale Midokura, the global innovator in software network virtualization, has announced the integration of its flagship Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) technology with Ubuntu OpenStack. Now, users can ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day Two

Cloud and server Article

The keynote sessions that kicked off the second day of OpenStack Summit Tokyo continued the theme of containers, but got a little deeper into the business drivers, and the purposes of why we’re building scalable clouds. Resonant Japan talked about accelerating business operations, cost reductions, and supporting the scalability of the thi ...


Canonical
29 October 2015

Vendors support Ubuntu Core as neutral platform for switches

Cloud and server News

Canonical accelerates disaggregation of switch hardware, operating system and network control software with snappy Ubuntu Core ...


Canonical
28 October 2015

OpenStack Summit Tokyo: Day One

Cloud and server Article

Yesterday was our first full day here at OpenStack Summit Tokyo, and the themes seemed pretty clear. Increased focus on applications and containers – containers – containers. The best part about that is how validating it feels. We’ve been focused on improving the usability of containers for several years now, and that’s been realized in ...