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Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu"


Rebecca Cradick
2 February 2016

Sanjay Sinha from Oracle on Cloud adoption and working with Canonical

Cloud and server Article

Sanjay Sinha, Vice President of Platform Products at Oracle speaks to Alexander Gallagher, Business Development for Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud on the drivers behind cloud adoption. Alexander: What do you think are the biggest barriers facing enterprises when it comes to cloud adoption? Sanjay: The barriers have been coming down an ...


John Dolen
28 January 2016

IBM LinuxONE gets its Juju

Cloud and server Article

This week, via press release, IBM continued its launch of the LinuxONE family of high performance Linux systems. In August, we joined IBM with their launch of LinuxONE, announcing our intent to support the new systems starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release (code named Xenial Xerus). This will bring LinuxONE clients the same Ubuntu experie ...


Jorge O. Castro
5 January 2016

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Cloud and server Article

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything is nice and compart ...


Dustin Kirkland
22 December 2015

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

Cloud and server Article

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count all of the Ubuntu ...


Canonical
14 December 2015

Ubuntu is about people

Cloud and server Article

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That’s a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.Over the years, Ubuntu has changed and has lead change to keep thri ...


Canonical
24 November 2015

Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack

Cloud and server Case study

London-based Opus 2 International is an independent software and services provider specialising in technology for the legal profession. Opus 2’s flagship service, Magnum™, is built entirely on Ubuntu OpenStack and has dramatically simplified the way in which legal evidence is managed: Opus 2 Magnum™ users report 66% reduction in costs; 32 ...


Canonical
20 November 2015

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Ubuntu Featured

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an operating system, it is a whole community in which everybody collaborates with everybody to bring to the life a wonderful human experience. When you download the ...


dimitern
8 November 2015

Deploying OpenStack on MAAS 1.9+ with Juju

Cloud and server Article

In the past months our Juju Core Sapphire team has been working on the design, planning, and implementation of a set of extended networking features for Juju 1.25 and the upcoming (January 2016) 1.26 releases. The main focus is enabling users of Juju to have a finer-grained control over how their services are deployed on read more » ...


April Wang
4 November 2015

Another wave of hacking in China this time with TechCrunch

Internet of Things Article

After undertaking several Ubuntu Phone led hackathons in Beijing and Shenzhen, we embraced the opportunity to be part of the TechCrunch one this past weekend in Beijing (31st Oct-1st Nov). This hackathon afforded us the chance to meet more Ubuntu fans, introduce the OS to more developers and interact with participants from past hackathons ...


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 ...


Guest
26 October 2015

An nova-compute-lxd update

Cloud and server Article

For the past couple of months, we have been working hard on adding new features to nova-compute-lxd (nclxd). The new features that have been added go beyond starting and stopping containers, to make it more useful for day to day use. An example is container migration: The above video shows a container migrating between two ...


Canonical
22 October 2015

What’s new in Ubuntu 15.10: desktop and devices

Desktop Article

The desktop edition of Ubuntu 15.10 will be available for download from today – 22nd October – with the latest developer tools and freshest desktop interface, with a preview of the converged phone, desktop and tablet experience that has been making waves in the tech community. Over-the-air updates to Ubuntu Phone Users of the Ubuntu ...