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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
4 May 2012

Creating the open cloud

Cloud and server White paper

Amid all the hype surrounding the cloud, there has been a growing need for open and proven components that enable any business to benefit from elastic computing. With public cloud services now widely available and OpenStack established as the de facto infrastructure platform, these components are now ready to deploy. This white paper expl ...

Canonical
26 April 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS aims to conquer the enterprise desktop

Desktop News

Aimed at the enterprise desktop, the new Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the only operating system to combine a free, open-source platform with five years of guaranteed updates and the option of commercial support. Thanks to Unity, its unique GUI, plus native office apps and support for leading desktop virtualization solutions, it enables users to wo ...

Canonical
26 April 2012

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS: certified, available and ready for the hyperscale world

Ubuntu News

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS: certified, available and ready for the hyperscale world Available for download now, Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS combines the Essex release of OpenStack cloud infrastructure and Canonical's new Metal as a Service provisioning tool in a proven, certified server platform, with support guaranteed until 2017. Canonical tod ...

Canonical
19 April 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server to be certified, supported on HP ProLiant systems

Ubuntu News

Companies to target hyperscale, cloud and big data customers Canonical today announced the imminent certification and support of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, a leading Linux-based server operating system, on select HP ProLiant servers. Ubuntu drivers and management software delivered by HP will be included as part of HP ProLiant hardware warranty su ...

Canonical
19 April 2012

Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch

Ubuntu Design

In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of course, we love highlighting beautiful design when it does finally come along, and in the last few days the beautiful Pebble smartwatch has appeared over ...

Canonical
19 April 2012

Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition

Ubuntu Research

Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the Ubuntu Arabic for the Ubuntu Font Family and from tomorrow you will be able to see that work for yourself. Until ...

Canonical
16 April 2012

Configuring Keystone in OpenStack (Essex)

Cloud and server White paper

Keystone is an identity service written in Python that provides a pluggable back end, designed to support various protocols for authentication and authorisation (Basic Auth, OAuth, and OpenID, to give a few examples). Simply put, it allows clients to obtain security tokens to access different cloud services. Keystone was spawned from the ...

Canonical
13 April 2012

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack clouds

Cloud and server Article

Canonical’s AWSOME bridges Amazon and OpenStack Clouds Canonical today released for beta testing a new cloud proxy, providing APIs for OpenStack that are also common to Amazon’s EC2 and AWS public cloud services. The proxy, called “Any Web Service Over Me” (AWSOME), simplifies the deployment of hybrid cloud workloads across AWS and OpenSt ...

Canonical
4 April 2012

“Metal as a Service” provisioning tool from Canonical in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS beta

Cloud and server News

MAAS enables system administrators to provision hyperscale deployments of physical servers, bringing cloud-like semantics for on-demand capacity to the physical server provisioning process. MAAS is designed for horizontally scaled environments such as big data workloads and internal clouds, but works just as well for any cloud-like deploy ...

Canonical
2 April 2012

Ubuntu big data environment provides new insight into music industry trends

Cloud and server Case study

Innovative London tech company Music Metric enables a comprehensive, up-to-the-hour view of artists’ popularity Summary Music Metric, an innovative London technology company, provides unique insight for music industry players and artists. It does this by analysing vast quantities of online data from music download sites, social networks, ...

Canonical
2 April 2012

Mercadolibre builds 1,000-node Ubuntu cloud for IT on demand

Cloud and server Case study

Ubuntu and AWS cloud used to capture, protect and monetise data across platforms Summary Mercadolibre has risen to prominence as Latin America’s leading e-commerce and auction site. Founded in 1999 with a handful of employees, it is now the eighth-largest online retailer, handling up to two million site requests per minute and four millio ...

Canonical
29 March 2012

Ubuntu User Surveys 2012 – Part 4 and Final

Ubuntu open source

I wanted to know what the reasons were for people choosing Ubuntu. After all there are other better-known choices out there. For the respondents across all three surveys, open source stood out as the key attribute, true whatever the age of the respondents and whenever they adopted Ubuntu. Curiosity was almost equally as important, and ...

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