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Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to

Stop what you are doing and complete the OpenStack User Survey now

The OpenStack user survey is a key input into many decisions that are made in the OpenStack community: it helps determine which projects are prioritised by the Product Working Group and as well as shaping distributions like Ubuntu OpenStack.  So if you haven’d completed it please do so today: https://www.openstack.org/user-survey/survey-2

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap

Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I have to say, the event is truly huge. Canonical is here demonstrating converged mobile/desktop technology, IoT drones and robots, top of rack switch integration on Snappy Ubuntu Cor

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition is now available to pre-order

The most powerful Ubuntu phone was just announced last week, Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu edition is now available to pre-order from Meizu retailing at USD$369.99 The Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition will be showcased for the very first time at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona, drop by the Ubuntu stand in Hall 3 (booth 3J30)

Canonical creates first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab (V-PIL)

Canonical announces the creation of the first VNF Performance Interoperability Lab for scale out infrastructure Enables service providers to rigorously test their VNF performance and interoperability before deploying in live network architecture Dramatic reduction in cost and time for deploying new services Affirmed, Metaswitch and GENBAN

Community collaborates on new convergent Ubuntu phones

Today, we’re celebrating the arrival of two new Ubuntu phone community ports! If you’re the lucky owner of a Sony Xperia Z1  you will soon be able to download an image to turn it into an Ubuntu phone and PC! Alternatively if you’re the owner of a OnePlus One you will be able to flash

Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition launches globally

Highest specification Ubuntu phone launches internationally with Meizu Meizu PRO 5 Ubuntu Edition available for pre-order during Mobile World Congress 2016 Host of new features: the fifth Ubuntu device launched by Canonical and partners in 12 months Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu, jointly with Canonical, announces the global launch

Voting begins for OpenStack Austin talks

We’ve submitted several talks to the OpenStack Summit in Austin. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk so if you think they are interesting – please vote for them! Understanding updates to the Ubuntu Cloud Archive Speaker: Mark Baker Over 2000 organisations build OpenStack clouds using packages fromthe

Docker, Alpine, Ubuntu, and You

There’s no shortage of excitement, controversy, and readership, any time you can work “Docker” into a headline these days.  Perhaps a bit like “Donald Trump”, but for CIO tech blogs and IT news — a real hot button.  Hey, look, I even did it myself in the title of this post!Sometimes an article even starts out about CoreOS, but gets divert

Sanjay Sinha from Oracle on Cloud adoption and working with Canonical

Sanjay Sinha, Vice President of Platform Products at Oracle speaks to Alexander Gallagher, Business Development for Canonical’s Certified Public Cloud on the drivers behind cloud adoption. Alexander: What do you think are the biggest barriers facing enterprises when it comes to cloud adoption? Sanjay: The barriers have been coming down an

IBM LinuxONE gets its Juju

This week, via press release, IBM continued its launch of the LinuxONE family of high performance Linux systems. In August, we joined IBM with their launch of LinuxONE, announcing our intent to support the new systems starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS release (code named Xenial Xerus). This will bring LinuxONE clients the same Ubuntu experie

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

Vagrant is a popular devops tool because it allows developers to easily manage virtual machines on their laptop. While this sounds easy, Vagrant allows people to finally develop on their machines using the same libraries as the operating system that’s in their server room. And since it uses virtual machines, everything is nice and compart

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

People of earth, waving at Saturn, courtesy of NASA.“It Doesn’t Look Like Ubuntu Reached Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year”, says Michael Larabel of Phoronix, in a post that it seems he’s been itching to post for months.Why the negativity?!? Are you sure? Did you count all of them?No one has.  And no one can count all of the Ubuntu

Ubuntu is about people

Ubuntu has been around for just over a decade. That’s a long time for a project built around a field that evolves at such a rapid pace as computing. And not just any computing –software made for (and by) human beings, who have also inevitably grown and evolved with Ubuntu.Over the years, Ubuntu has changed and has lead change to keep thri

Opus 2 develops the “legal cloud of the future” on Ubuntu OpenStack

London-based Opus 2 International is an independent software and services provider specialising in technology for the legal profession. Opus 2’s flagship service, Magnum™, is built entirely on Ubuntu OpenStack and has dramatically simplified the way in which legal evidence is managed: Opus 2 Magnum™ users report 66% reduction in costs; 32

Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

Today we celebrate our amazing Ubuntu Community and show our appreciation for all the hard work put into making Ubuntu what it is today. Ubuntu is not just an operating system, it is a whole community in which everybody collaborates with everybody to bring to the life a wonderful human experience. When you download the