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UK Government issues Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Security Guidance
by Canonical on 17 March 2015
CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (IA) within the UK Government, have released their End User Devices Guidance for Ubuntu 14.04...
Cloud and server
Cloud and server
Ubuntu, Hortonworks and Microsoft = Big Data Hosted Solution
by Tom Callway on 19 February 2015
The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata +...
Ubuntu
Washington Devices Sprint
by Canonical on 31 October 2014
Introducing myself as the new and only content designer in the Design Team, I dived head first into the world of developers, designers and Ubuntu Community...
Cloud and server
Introducing the Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack
by Canonical on 28 October 2014
The Canonical Distribution of Ubuntu OpenStack is the easiest way to create reference OpenStack clouds in minutes with full management, monitoring and scaling...
Cloud and server
Talligent newest member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme
by Ellen Arnold on 16 October 2014
We are excited to announce the membership of Talligent in Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme. Talligent empowers enterprises and service providers to deploy...
Ubuntu
Saving ubuntu.com on download day: Caching location specific pages
by Robin Winslow on 28 August 2014
On release day we can get up to 8,000 requests a second to ubuntu.com from people trying to download the new release. In fact, last October (13.10) was the...
Ubuntu
Ubuntu 14.10 wallpapers – we needs ‘em!
by Canonical on 8 August 2014
Ubuntu was once described to me by a wise(ish 😉 ) man as a train that was leaving whether you’re on it or not. That’s the beauty of a 6 month release cycle....
Cloud and server
Enterprise standards = prisoners of the mind?
by Mark Baker on 22 July 2014
Over the last few weeks we’ve found ourselves in several prospective customer meetings discussing the suitability of OpenStack for enterprise use in...
Desktop
Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
by Canonical on 7 July 2014
Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people –...
Cloud and server
HP Publishes OpenStack on Ubuntu Reference Architecture
by John Zannos on 1 July 2014
Just in time for the recent HP Discover event, engineers from HP and Canonical published a technical white paper titled: HP Reference Architecture for...
Cloud and server
NUDT and Canonical bring OpenStack to world’s fastest supercomputer
by Canonical on 14 May 2014
China’s National University of Defense Technology, NUDT, developers of the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, and Canonical, the organisation behind Ubuntu, today...