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366 posts from 2016
Why open source matters to the IoT market
By Maarten Ectors, 15 September 2016
With everything becoming connected through IoT, security will be key to its success. And the best way to secure a system is to allow anybody to inspect the...
Big data gets super-fast with Ubuntu on Bigstep Metal Cloud
By Canonical, 14 September 2016
Bigstep gains Ubuntu Public Cloud certification Ubuntu Server images are optimized for performance, security, dependability on Bigstep Metal Cloud, with...
Deploying a Spark job using Juju
By Guest, 13 September 2016
Juju makes it easy to setup and monitor a Spark cluster with a few commands. In this guide we will setup a new cluster and deploy a Spark job using this tool....
Webinar: Using snaps to deliver enterprise and consumer software
By Amrisha Prashar, 9 September 2016
We’ll be hosting our next webinar on using snaps to deliver enterprise and consumer software. This webinar will be hosted by Nextcloud founder Frank...
MAAS 2.0: high availability API-driven bare metal provisioning
By Christian Reis, 8 September 2016
This week, the result of over a year of work by our engineering team is concluded: the final release of MAAS 2.0 is now available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and...
Cloud Chatter: September 2016
By Canonical, 7 September 2016
Welcome to the latest issue of Cloud Chatter. This month, don’t miss: A look at Facebook’s new lab, testing software solutions including Juju and MAAS The...
Welcoming the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk: the new drone development kit
By Thibaut Rouffineau, 7 September 2016
Parrot collaborates with Canonical to launch the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for the creation of autonomous and obstacle avoidance drones and...
10 Desktop snaps written in August
By Didier Roche, 7 September 2016
More and more snaps are being created monthly! For those that may not know, Snaps are a new way for developers to package their apps, bringing with it many...
Highlights from Intel’s Developer Conference 2016!
By Pedro Coca, 7 September 2016
Last month we were present at Intel’s Developer Conference that took place in SF. The conference gathered technologists together to demo, discuss and share...
Pentaho users explore the future of DevOps and Big Data with Juju
By Guest, 4 September 2016
This quarter’s PLUG (Pentaho London User Group) headed to Canonical’s head office which is nicely located just behind the Tate Modern in London. I must admit...
August’s reading list
By Inayaili de León Persson, 1 September 2016
August has been a quiet month, as many of team have taken some time off to enjoy the unusually lovely London summer weather, but we have a few great links to...
Canonical certifies big software solutions at Facebook’s new lab
By Canonical, 30 August 2016
Written by David Duffey, Director of Technical Partnerships for Canonical’s cloud division Today at the OCP Technology Day, Facebook announced the grand...