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BQ launches the new Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition

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...

Juniper and Canonical: Converged Clouds and NFVs

OpenStack has quickly become the obvious choice to build Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms for hybrid and private cloud solutions, as well as...

Phone updates: May

The full list of Ubuntu Phone updates from May are provided below. Indicators Icons are now all monochromatic Web Browser Bottom edge gesture to reveal tabs...

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

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...

Introducing pylxd

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...

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

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

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

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

StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

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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Eurecom join the Charm Partner Programme

Canonical are excited to announce that Eurecom, a graduate school and research centre in Communication Systems, is the newest member of the Charm Partner...

Charm Store now includes Galera Cluster

Canonical and Codership are excited to announce that the Galera Cluster charm is now available for use in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing,...

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

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...

IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere

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...

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

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...

What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?

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...

What is software-defined storage?

What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability...

Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China

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...


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