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Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

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Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a...

Canonical
13 July 2016


Canonical
6 July 2016

Canonical and Pivotal Collaborate to Deliver Cloud Native Platform

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Ubuntu to Become Preferred Linux OS for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Leveraging Canonical’s Ubuntu Advantage (UA) Support Services Automated Approach to Security Patch Management Provides Game-changing, Rapid Response Approach to Linux Vulnerabilities for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Customers Future Commitment to Formalize Industry...

Canonical
6 July 2016


Canonical
5 July 2016

e-shelter and Canonical launch Joint Managed OpenStack Private Cloud

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Quick, easy and cost-predictable way to get a fully functional OpenStack cloud Built on Ubuntu OpenStack and using application management tools Juju and MaaS Fully managed cloud service takes away the hassle of day to day IT operations Frankfurt, Germany and London, U.K. 5th July, 2016 – e-shelter, leading data center...

Canonical
5 July 2016


Canonical
29 June 2016

Snapcraft 2.12: an ecosystem of parts, qmake and gulp

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Snapcraft 2.12 is here and is making its way to your 16.04 machines today.This release takes Snapcraft to a whole new level. For example, instead of defining your own project parts, you can now use and share them from a common, open, repository. This

Canonical
29 June 2016


Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016

HOWTO: Host your own SNAP store!

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SNAPs are the cross-distro, cross-cloud, cross-device Linux packaging format of the future.  And we’re already hosting a fantastic catalog of SNAPs in the SNAP store provided by Canonical.  Developers are welcome to publish their software for

Dustin Kirkland
24 June 2016


Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016

HOWTO: Classic, apt-based Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server on the rpi2!

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Classic Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, on an rpi2Hopefully by now you’re well aware of Ubuntu Core — the snappiest way to run Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi…But have you ever wanted to run classic (apt/deb) Ubuntu Server on a RaspberryPi2?Well, you’re in luck! &n

Dustin Kirkland
20 June 2016


Canonical
20 June 2016

A New Research Cloud on Ubuntu OpenStack

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If you’re starting from almost scratch, and – where many people are – you don’t have any skill, you don’t have any training, you don’t have much of an idea of what you want to do, Then [BootStack] is a very good place to start. The University of Cape Town (UCT), in South Africa, recently

Canonical
20 June 2016


Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016

The Changelog Podcast — Ubuntu Everywhere

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I had the honor and privilege a couple of weeks ago, to participate in a recording of The Changelog, a podcast dedicated to Open Source technology.You can listen to it here.These guys — Jerod and Adam — produce a fantastic show, and we covered a lot

Dustin Kirkland
18 June 2016


Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016

Leveling up snapd integration tests

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Over the last several months there has been noticeable and growing pain associated with the evolving integration tests around snapd, and given the project goal of being a cross-distribution platform, we are very keen on solving this problem appropriately so that stability is guaranteed everywhere.With that mindset a...

Gustavo Niemeyer
16 June 2016


Dustin Kirkland
16 June 2016

sudo purge-old-kernels: Recover some disk space!

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If you have long-running Ubuntu systems (server or desktop), and you keep those systems up to date, you will, over time, accumulate a lot of Linux kernels.Canonical’s Ubuntu Kernel Team regularly (about once a month) provides kernel updates, patching s

Dustin Kirkland
16 June 2016


Juju Made the Deadline

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Ok… I am exaggerating. Juju did not make the deadline, Panagiotis and his co-authors with their hard work made the deadline. Ah, ok you caught me lying again… One of Panagiotis co-authors (me) did not work hard, actually he did not work on the paper at all! Normally, I would publicly apologize, but let me


Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

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The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently,...

Canonical
15 June 2016


James Donner
10 June 2016

June 2016: big software, new releases, and a CIO’s guide to telco

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Welcome to our brand new monthly blog! This month, learn about the industry trend toward Big Software, highlights of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release, and our latest eBook – “CIO’s guide to SDN, NFV and VNF”. Be sure to check out our roundup of Industry news! Mark Shuttleworth: Big Software is THE biggest problem facing

James Donner
10 June 2016


Adam Stokes
9 June 2016

What’s the easiest way to start using big software? Meet Conjure-up

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Have a big software project you want to get in front of users with the least amount of barriers? Maybe it has a lot of dependencies, target runtimes, and/or micro-service type relationships. Don’t feel like writing a book’s worth of install and configuration documentation? Wish you could just tell folks to just...

Adam Stokes
9 June 2016