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New Year, New Data

By Canonical, 6 January 2016

Happy New Year, everybody! I hope everyone had a chance to take a break over the holiday season. At Canonical, we generally take a break the last week of the...

OpenPOWER Foundation: Continuing the Datacenter Revolution

By John Zannos, 5 January 2016

Today, I am pleased to announce that I have accepted my nomination to be the new Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation. OpenPOWER represents a gigantic leap...

Celebrating over 10 million Vagrant Ubuntu downloads

By Jorge O. Castro, 5 January 2016

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...

December’s reading list

By Inayaili de León Persson, 4 January 2016

Happy 2016! Here are the best links shared by the design team in December: Stance Star Wars socks 24 Ways Sketch Blog: Leaving the Mac App Store 12 Devs Web...

More people use Ubuntu than anyone actually knows

By Dustin Kirkland, 22 December 2015

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...

Juju Charmer Summit: Docker Lightning Talk

By James Donner, 22 December 2015

Ubuntu is the number one platform for Docker deployments by a wide margin. With Juju, deploying Docker is as easy as a visit to the charm store. Join...

Canonical Cloud Chatter: December 2015

By James Donner, 18 December 2015

With the holiday season upon us, we are feeling festive! Before you start your holiday, here’s a bit about what we’ve been up to lately! We have just release...

Resolving Big Data in the New Year

By Canonical, 16 December 2015

It’s probably best to have your New Year’s resolutions planned before January 1st is actually here. I started talking about this a few days ago with my...

WANdisco joins the Charm Partner Programme

By Canonical, 15 December 2015

Canonical is excited to announce that WANdisco has joined the Charm Partner Programme (CPP). Canonical’s CPP helps solution providers get the best use of...

Ubuntu is about people

By Canonical, 14 December 2015

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...

Using bcache for performance gains on the Launchpad Database Servers

By Tom Haddon, 10 December 2015

Launchpad is the code hosting, bug tracking and build system for the Ubuntu distribution itself, and is used by many other software projects, including...