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6 February 2015

BQ’s new Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition – the smartphone that puts content and services at your fingertips

Phone and tablet Ubuntu tech blog

First Ubuntu smartphones available in the coming days with BQ on the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu’s Scopes introduce a new mobile experience for users, a smarter ecosystem dynamic for developers, and unprecedented differentiation opportunities for device manufacturers and mobile carriers Operators in Europe, including 3 Sweden, amena.com, giffgaff ...

Karl Williams
6 February 2015

CyberVision

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

CyberVision is a trusted global provider of IT engineering services that offers extensive technical expertise in the following industries: IoT, mobility, big data and telecom. As the authors of Kaa – an open-source platform for building perfectly tuned cross-technology IoT solutions – CyberVision provides comprehensive services in IoT sof ...

Tom Haddon
3 February 2015

Mojo: Juju Service Orchestration distilled part 3

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is the third in a series of three articles about Mojo. In the first article we introduced Mojo, and in the second article we took a closer look at specifications and manifests. Today we’re going to walk through an example service deployment so you can see Mojo in action. The only things you’ll need ...

Ellen Arnold
3 February 2015

Vzzual join Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is excited to announce the addition of Vzzual to its Charm Partner Programme. Vzzual.com allows you to better understand your photo and video assets by offering an automated image tagging (image understanding), image processing, image hosting and image cloud backup service. Samuel Cozzannet, Strategic Programme Manager at Canoni ...

Canonical
2 February 2015

Fujitsu joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical today is delighted to welcome Fujitsu, the third-largest IT service provider globally, as its first Certified Public Cloud partner in Asia. Fujitsu Cloud services portfolio covers Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service as well as cloud management platforms and a wide range of professional m ...

Canonical
2 February 2015

openHAB

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

openHAB is a free software for individual smart home hubs. It is highly flexible and extensible and adapts much better to the users needs than most commercial offerings. Ubuntu Snappy Core makes it possible to pre-package and distribute openHAB for a large variety of embedded platforms. Ubuntu Snappy Core will greatly facilitate the insta ...

Ellen Arnold
2 February 2015

hSenid Mobile joins Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

hSenid Mobile is the most recent addition to the growing Charm Partner Programme. The programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployments and an easy way to deliver solutions in minutes. “We bel ...

Maarten Ectors
2 February 2015

Snappy Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu Core is available fo ...

James Donner
30 January 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: January 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This month, we had some news on Snappy, MAAS and Mojo, but also the results to our annual cloud survey are in! If that was not enough, find out more about our event plans over the next few weeks and sign up for our latest webinar! Here’s a quick recap of an exciting start to 2015. “Snappy” ...

Canonical
29 January 2015

Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey reveals hybrid cloud, SDN and IoT on the rise

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical ran its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud usage. This year, the ...

Robin Winslow
28 January 2015

Auto-syncing revision history from Github to Launchpad

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning we work in both Bazaar and Git. The need to synchronise Github to Launchpad Some of our Github projects need to be also stored in Launchpad, as some of our systems only have access to ...