Canonical
Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.
1489 posts by Canonical
Cloud and server
What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is...
Cloud and server
What is software-defined storage?
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability...
Cloud and server
Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter
by Canonical on 12 May 2015
This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting...
Internet of Things
IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization
by Canonical on 11 May 2015
Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer,...
Internet of Things
IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator
by Canonical on 11 May 2015
San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart...
Cloud and server
Cloud and server
Introduction to nova-compute-lxd
by Canonical on 6 May 2015
LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the...
Cloud and server
Live Migration in LXD
by Canonical on 6 May 2015
There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a...
Desktop
Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com
by Canonical on 5 May 2015
A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence...
Cloud and server
Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric
by Canonical on 5 May 2015
The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be...
Cloud and server
DataArt’s DeviceHive platform arrives on Azure Marketplace
by Canonical on 24 April 2015
The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) enables businesses to predict when industrial equipment is going to fail, so that action can be taken beforehand. A...
Cloud and server
10Duke joins the Charm Partner Programme
by Canonical on 22 April 2015
Canonical is excited to announce that 10Duke, the leading European backend as a service (BaaS) provider, is the latest partner to join the Canonical Charm...