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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
16 July 2014

Canonical welcomes Brightbox to its Certified Public Cloud Programme as first European partner

Cloud and server News

Launching applications and workloads in the cloud should be a seamless experience – this is the aim of our Certified Public Cloud programme. So we are very excited today to welcome Brightbox as the programme’s newest partner and our very first European cloud partner. Brightbox is a great match for us, with their strong reputation for ...


Canonical
7 July 2014

Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions

Desktop Case study

Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there were 22 organisational ...


Canonical
4 July 2014

Ubuntu highlighted in IBM Systems Magazine

Cloud and server Article

IBM Systems Magazine caught up with us recently, for a discussion regarding Linux on Power – today, and heading into the future. As you may have seen from recent blogs and announcements, IBM and Canonical announced Ubuntu support for IBM’s POWER8 platform in April. This became available immediately upon POWER8 availability in June, making ...


Canonical
17 June 2014

OpenStack One-Liners

Phone and tablet Article

One-line bash commands for managing, deploying and testing OpenStack and related components, hypervisors and containers.  Some simple and obvious, some cool and questionable, hopefully all useful.  Check back on this post, I’ll likely add more. #1 – Watch Nova Compute for Non-Active Instances on Openstack Outputs total instance count and ...


Canonical
13 June 2014

Ubuntu and POWER8: the best of both worlds

Cloud and server Article

Last month at IBM Impact we were privileged to showcase the work we’ve been doing to bring Ubuntu to the new POWER8 platform. The wait is finally over, and IBM POWER machines are now available to the general public. So what does this mean for Ubuntu users? First of all, the same exact qualities you ...


Canonical
12 June 2014

Migrating juju to HP Cloud’s Horizon

Phone and tablet Article

HP Cloud retired its old regions this month. If you use juju on HP Cloud and your account was created before this year, you may need to update your juju config and possibly complete your project setup in Horizon. There are two changes you must make to each HP Cloud environment listed in environments.yaml. Set the region option ...


Canonical
12 June 2014

Enterprise class Ubuntu management with Canonical Landscape

Cloud and server White paper

In this recently-published white paper, Enterprise Management Associates detail the return on investment that can be expected when managing Ubuntu systems using Landscape. They outline the software’s features before providing hard financial data based on real-world study of the software in use. Download the white paper ...


Canonical
11 June 2014

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Canonical
11 June 2014

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Canonical
11 June 2014

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Canonical
10 June 2014

Malta Sprint

Ubuntu User Experience

Our Apps and Platform teams took part at a design/engineering sprint on the beautiful island of Malta in May, and we thought we would share some pics to show a peek into “behing the scenes” and people working on the apps and operating system. The sprint itself was a great experience, with over 150 people, engineers and ...