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

MAAS and Juju in a VM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – Part 2

by Canonical on 19 November 2013

Enterprise environments rely on Ubuntu’s LTS (Long-term Support) release.   Its established two year release cadence and five year security and maintenance...

Cloud and server

Video: Ubuntu Cloud technologies on Dell PowerEdge servers

by Canonical on 18 November 2013

This video published by the DellTechCenter shows the optimisation of Ubuntu’s cloud technologies, “Juju” and “MAAS”, as used with the Dell PowerEdge servers. ...

Cloud and server

Interested in MAAS and Juju? Here’s how to try it in a VM

by Canonical on 15 November 2013

The backbone for scale-out workload deployments in Ubuntu, such as big data (Hadoop), cloud (OpenStack), and layered applications is a combination of...

Ubuntu

November Brown Bag lunch

by Canonical on 15 November 2013

Some of us in the Design team have been gathering on a monthly basis to have lunch together and share things we find interesting to us. Today, I’d like to...

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Conducting Usability Testing: a case of just following the task script?

by Canonical on 11 November 2013

In the previous post, we talked about how to design effective user testing tasks to evaluate the usability of an interface. This post continues with this...

Ubuntu

App Design Clinic #4

by Canonical on 11 November 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs0bYWcq-E App design Clinic #4 focuses on icons, with questions from Stuart Langridge including: guidance on creating app...

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Trademarks, community and criticism

by Canonical on 8 November 2013

Recently some concerns were expressed by fixubuntu.com, a website focusing on Ubuntu privacy, about a routine trademark enforcement email that Canonical sent....

Cloud and server

Deploying Web Applications using Juju – (Part 3/3)

by Canonical on 7 November 2013

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is...

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A week in San Francisco

by Canonical on 7 November 2013

I recently attended my first cloud sprint meeting held in San Francisco, and it turned out to be a great experience. It’s been 10 years since I last visited,...

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Canonical keynote: building business value through interoperability

by Canonical on 5 November 2013

Watch Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, create an entire Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from scratch using building blocks chosen by his live...

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Ubuntu OIL announced for broadest set of cloud infrastructure options

by Canonical on 5 November 2013

Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate...

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Hit the ground running with Ubuntu OpenStack training

by Canonical on 30 October 2013

Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, under the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure brand. Ubuntu is also the reference...