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Cloud and server
So You Want to Write a Snappy App?
by Canonical on 3 June 2015
Introduction If you are anything like me, you love to write apps for Ubuntu. Like the Ubuntu phone two years ago, snappy is a bit of a green field in terms of...
Phone and tablet
BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition
by Canonical on 2 June 2015
In February of this year, BQ, the European technology company, launched the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition, the world´s first smartphone featuring the Ubuntu...
Cloud and server
Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs
by Tom Callway on 29 May 2015
OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as...
Cloud and server
Introducing pylxd
by Canonical on 27 May 2015
In part of my work for nova-compute-lxd, we use a combination of httplib, UNIX domain sockets, and JSON to talk to the LXD daemon via the REST API. Talking to...
Cloud and server
The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?
by Canonical on 19 May 2015
The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed...
Cloud and server
LXD crushes KVM in density and speed
by Canonical on 18 May 2015
LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based...
Phone and tablet
Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China
by Amrisha Prashar on 17 May 2015
In the first of a series of launches, Meizu has announced that the Ubuntu MX4, which will be sold across Europe soon, is immediately available to developers...
Cloud and server
Market Leaders EMC and Canonical Extend OpenStack Partnership
by John Zannos on 6 May 2015
Today’s cloud workloads are driving storage requirements at an exponential rate, making storage an important part of any OpenStack deployment. Clients are...
Cloud and server
Universal Modeling Language for Service-Oriented Architectures: Part 1
by Samuel Cozannet on 6 May 2015
Over the last 20 years, applications have moved from a monolithic mainframe perspective to a scale out vision. However, during this time the representation of...
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
Neutron, 0mq and Git deployment – Ubuntu OpenStack 15.04 Charm Release
by James Page on 30 April 2015
Alongside the Ubuntu 15.04 release on the 23rd April, the Ubuntu OpenStack Engineering team delivered the latest release of the OpenStack charms for deploying...
Cloud and server
Here comes Kilo and 15.04! Containers will never be the same again!
by Mark Baker on 22 April 2015
Today Ubuntu 15.04, codenamed Vivid Vervet, is released with a host of new features for clouds and servers. 15.04 comes a full year since the last Long Term...