Internet of Things

GE’s First Build is the future of smart home appliances…

by Maarten Ectors on 28 May 2015

First Build is the GE team that is responsible for the Chillhub, the first smart fridge with apps. The Chillhub runs Ubuntu Core and as such any Ubuntu...

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...

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To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units

by Canonical on 23 May 2015

In the converged world of Unity-8, applications will work on small mobile screens, tablets and desktop monitors (with a mouse and keyboard attached) as

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Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

by Canonical on 21 May 2015

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that...

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StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

by Canonical on 21 May 2015

StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of...

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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...

Internet of Things

IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere

by Maarten Ectors on 19 May 2015

IoT World was an eye opener for many. The same open source operating system that everybody loves from the cloud now powered the first smart fridge with apps...

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...

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...