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What’s the future for open source mobile platforms?

GMIC and Mobile Monday are only a few days away, and we’ll be there. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, will be speaking at GMIC about  “the future of the open source mobile platform movement” during a fireside chat on Tuesday 22nd October at 11:15 am.  Afterwards one of the Canonical team will be demonstrating the

The open cloud future is here: Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us

Latest Ubuntu 13.10 includes first step to mobile / PC convergence

13.10 desktop gains Smart Scopes and performance improvements from mobile and desktop convergence effort, paving the way for full converge across all devices. 13.10 includes the first true mobile release of Ubuntu, enabling OEMs, carriers and silicon vendors to integrate Ubuntu for mobile devices in 2014. 13.10 supports service differenti

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with VMWare vSphere integration, faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud en

Ubuntu 13.10 delivers faster cloud setup and management for scale-out environments

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments will be released

Deploying web applications using Juju on EC2 (Part 2/3)

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical manner without all

OpenStack India Day and APAC Momentum

Recently I had the privilege of presenting at OpenStack India Day in Bangalore. I was in great company, alongside speakers from SwiftStack, HP, the OpenStack Foundation and other key contributors to OpenStack. The conversations generated at the sold-out event covered a broad range of both technical and industry topics, but the overall tak

Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide

In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with


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Launching new Telco services daily – TADS Summit 2013

The telco business has long prided itself on providing dependable services all day every day. Today, dial tones generally survive earthquakes, hurricanes, wars and power cuts and that is testimony to the service quality telcos provide. This high level of service quality runs through a telco’s DNA, which gives their applications the renown

Designing a product you don’t use

Over the last year we have been working on the Juju GUI to reach a broader audience. Juju is a way of building complex cloud environments. It connects different services, allows complex configuration and the ability to scale out quickly and easily. Juju is offered as a command line tool or as a GUI on

Deploying web applications using Juju on EC2 (Part 1/3)

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services in the cloud, in this case on Amazon EC2. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy,

Latest from the web team — September 2013

We might have been quiet, but we have been busy! Here’s a quick overview of what the web team has been up to recently. In the past month we’ve worked on: New juju.ubuntu.com website: we’ve revamped the information architecture, revisited the key journeys and updated the look to be more in line with www.ubuntu.com Fenchurch

Wednesday App Clinic – Update

Over the last few weeks, we’ve enjoyed running 2 Wednesday App Clinics. Thanks to all those who sent us their apps and questions. It’s been a fantastic response! It certainly has helped us to see how you’ve been using the design guides and the components, and I hope it has helped you. The first clinic started

Creating Evernote on Ubuntu for smartphones

The Ubuntu community has been supporting app development for Ubuntu on phones since its  launch in January. Volunteer developers have contributed significant amounts of code to the phone, including core applications such as the calendar, calculator, the music app and more. We are now announcing a project to create an Open Source Evernote

Charm Championship to be judged by industry leaders

As we approach the final month of the Juju Charm Championship, we’re excited to announce the panel of expert judges who will be reviewing submissions and selecting the winners for the competition’s six categories. Canonical is proud to have such a prestigious list of judges. It’s a testament to the value Juju brings to cloud

Ubuntu on Windows Azure gets the Juju magic

September 17th, 2013. Today, Canonical, in cooperation with Microsoft, is announcing that Juju fully supports deploying services on Ubuntu into Windows Azure. This means that from tomorrow, September 18th, Ubuntu users can use Juju with its intuitive GUI to design and deploy sophisticated application infrastructure instantly into Windows


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