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Canonical
2 July 2018

Evaluating the true cost of multi-cloud

Article Cloud and server

Title: Evaluating the true cost of multi-cloud Speakers: Stephan Fabel & Owen Rogers Date/Time: July 12, 12:00PM EST / 5:00PM BST This webinar will take a look at new insights into multi-cloud economics. Recently, analyst firm 451 Research highlighted savings gained from using Canonical’s managed private cloud as part...

Canonical
2 July 2018


Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018

Fing snaps up 30,000 customers with a secure, future-proof IoT device

Article Internet of Things

The number of IoT devices set to be in use worldwide is due to explode depending on the source over the next couple of years. According to Gartner, the figure is set to be as much as 20.4 bn devices by 2020 with consumer products representing 63% of this figure. Many of these will be low-cost

Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018


Will Cooke
22 June 2018

A first look at desktop metrics

Article Desktop

We first announced our intention to ask users to provide basic, not-personally-identifiable system data back in February.  Since then we have built the Ubuntu Report tool and integrated it in to the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS initial setup tool.  You can see an example of the data being collected on the Ubuntu Report Github page....

Will Cooke
22 June 2018


Canonical
21 June 2018

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS certified for Intel NUC for IoT device development

Canonical News Canonical announcements

Canonical and Intel® are pleased to announce that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is now certified on selected Intel® NUC Mini PCs and boards. This partnership will aid device manufacturer’s and their developers to a smoother path to the development and deployment of IoT devices. Applicable to a range of use cases from digital signage...

Canonical
21 June 2018


Will Cooke
20 June 2018

Report from the GNOME Software design sprint

Article Desktop

  A couple of weeks ago representatives from across Canonical met in London to talk about ideas to improve the user experience of GNOME Software.  We had people from the store team, snap advocacy, snapd, design and from the desktop team. We were also fortunate enough to be joined by Richard Hughes representing upstream GNOME

Will Cooke
20 June 2018


James Nunns
19 June 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI and Blockchain

Article Cloud and server

How do financial services organisations evolve so that they are no longer seen as cumbersome Goliaths unable to keep up with the pace of change? The answer has its roots at both an infrastructure level, where legacy technology is being replaced with something more akin to what is seen in challengers banks or in technology

James Nunns
19 June 2018


Joshua Powers
19 June 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 19 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
19 June 2018


Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Article Desktop

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018


Anthony Dillon
18 June 2018

Design and Web team summary – 18 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. The team manages all web projects across Canonical. From www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. MAAS squad Code school We ran our first team code school which was “Install & run

Anthony Dillon
18 June 2018


Canonical
18 June 2018

A unified OpenStack for a scalable open infrastructure

Article Cloud and server

Stu Miniman and John Boyer of theCUBE interviewed Mark Baker, Field Product Manager, Canonical at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Read on to to find out about OpenStack’s increasing maturity. The Kubernetes and OpenStack story isn’t simple. Challenges exist, and plenty of pathfinding still needs to take place when it...

Canonical
18 June 2018


Canonical
13 June 2018

451 Research benchmarks public and private infrastructure cost

Article Cloud and server

Independent Report highlights the TCO of Canonical’s managed private cloud in a diverse multi-cloud strategy and enterprise infrastructure portfolio 451 Research’s latest report, ‘Busting the myth of private cloud economics ’, found that Canonical’s managed private OpenStack offering, BootStack, delivers private cloud...

Canonical
13 June 2018


Canonical
6 June 2018

Ubuntu to host containers in Amazon’s (EKS) for container portability

Article Cloud and server

The benefits of Ubuntu optimisation by Amazon and Canonical now extend to Amazon’s Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) with Ubuntu worker nodes hosting high performance Docker containers in AWS. This creates perfect portability for enterprise container workloads developed on Ubuntu workstations and operated...

Canonical
6 June 2018


Joshua Powers
5 June 2018

Ubuntu Server development summary – 05 June 2018

Article Cloud and server

The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team mailing list. cloud-init

Joshua Powers
5 June 2018


Alan Pope
5 June 2018

Fresh Snaps from May 2018

Desktop Desktop

Spring has sprung a bounty of applications in the snap store! We’ve hand picked a small selection from those we highlighted during May 2018. You can stay up to date with our editorial picks by following Snapcraft on Facebook where we share three new and interesting snaps a week. We’d also love to hear what

Alan Pope
5 June 2018