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Canonical
29 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Big Event, Big Data

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Philip McAleese talks sensor data and IoT bike lights Apparently, over 100,000 people attended Mobile World Congress 2016 this past week. I was one of them. One of 100,000 people that had to be registered, tracked, and admitted daily to the event. As small as I feel in that 100,000, that total is equal to

Canonical
29 February 2016


Ellen Arnold
29 February 2016

Deploying Juniper Contrail SDN on Ubuntu OpenStack

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In this video, we’re going to show you just how quick and easy it is to deploy Ubuntu OpenStack and Juniper Networks Contrail Networking using Canonical’s cloud services modeling tool, Juju. Juju enables users to quickly model, configure, deploy, scale and manage entire cloud environments with just a few commands....

Ellen Arnold
29 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
29 February 2016

Juju Charmer Summit: Juju and Docker

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 Docker is a great tool for developers, and Ubuntu is the number one platform for deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join Canonical’s Charles Butler to learn about the endless possibilities of this combination.

Jorge O. Castro
29 February 2016


Canonical
26 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

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Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There

Canonical
26 February 2016


Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

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Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT)...

Canonical
25 February 2016


Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

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Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to

Canonical
24 February 2016


Mark Baker
23 February 2016

Stop what you are doing and complete the OpenStack User Survey now

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The OpenStack user survey is a key input into many decisions that are made in the OpenStack community: it helps determine which projects are prioritised by the Product Working Group and as well as shaping distributions like Ubuntu OpenStack.  So if you haven’d completed it please do so today:...

Mark Baker
23 February 2016


Canonical
23 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap

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Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I have to say, the event is truly huge. Canonical is here demonstrating converged mobile/desktop technology, IoT drones and robots, top of rack switch integration...

Canonical
23 February 2016


John Zannos
22 February 2016

Canonical becomes founding member of Open Source MANO (OSM) group

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Earlier today, Telefonica announced the creation of the Open Source MANO (OSM) group and I am delighted to say that Canonical is one of the eight founding members of this community. A total of 23 Service Providers and Solution Vendors will work together to focus on delivering an open source Management and Orchestration...

John Zannos
22 February 2016


John Zannos
22 February 2016

Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures

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Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create and deliver new services faster. With this promise comes new complexity. Earlier today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Canonical announced the first VNF...

John Zannos
22 February 2016


Canonical
22 February 2016

Canonical creates first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab (V-PIL)

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Canonical announces the creation of the first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab for scale out infrastructure Enables service providers to rigorously test their VNF performance and interoperability before deploying in live network architecture Dramatic reduction in cost and time for deploying new services Affirmed,...

Canonical
22 February 2016


Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

Container World 2016: Application and Machine Containers (slides)

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I had the opportunity to speak at Container World 2016 in Santa Clara yesterday.  Thanks in part to the Netflix guys who preceded me, the room was absolutely packed!You can download a PDF of my slides here, or flip through them embedded below.I’d

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016


Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016

ZFS Licensing and Linux

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We at Canonical have conducted a legal review, including discussion with the industry’s leading software freedom legal counsel, of the licenses that apply to the Linux kernel and to ZFS.And in doing so, we have concluded that we are acting within the r

Dustin Kirkland
18 February 2016


Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016

Juju Office Hours for February 2016

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Come join the Charmer Summit After Party! We’re back from FOSDEM and Config Management Camp! In this session we’ll talk about the events, topics covered, and give you a sneak peek of what’s coming up in Juju 2.0.

Jorge O. Castro
17 February 2016