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To converge onto mobile, tablet, and desktop, think Grid Units

By Canonical, 23 May 2015

In the converged world of Unity-8, applications will work on small mobile screens, tablets and desktop monitors (with a mouse and keyboard attached) as

Cloudbase and Canonical partner to bring Windows Hyper-V Support

By Canonical, 21 May 2015

Partners bring Windows Hyper-V support to managed OpenStack clouds Cloudbase Solutions, the developer of Windows components in OpenStack, announced today that...

StackVelocity and Canonical team up to deliver cloud economics

By Canonical, 21 May 2015

StackVelocity Financial Services deliver Ubuntu OpenStack clouds that align costs to revenue StackVelocity® has teamed up with Canonical to launch a suite of...

Eurecom join the Charm Partner Programme

By Ellen Arnold, 21 May 2015

Canonical are excited to announce that Eurecom, a graduate school and research centre in Communication Systems, is the newest member of the Charm Partner...

Charm Store now includes Galera Cluster

By Ellen Arnold, 19 May 2015

Canonical and Codership are excited to announce that the Galera Cluster charm is now available for use in the Juju Charm Store. With 300 charms and growing,...

The Open Enterprise Cloud – OpenStack’s Holy Grail?

By Canonical, 19 May 2015

The way people think about the enterprise IT is changing fast, putting into question many common assumptions on how hardware and software should be designed...

IoT World and the power of Snappy Apps everywhere

By Maarten Ectors, 19 May 2015

IoT World was an eye opener for many. The same open source operating system that everybody loves from the cloud now powered the first smart fridge with apps...

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

By Canonical, 18 May 2015

LXD achieves 14.5 times greater density than KVM LXD launches instances 94% faster than KVM LXD provides 57% less latency than KVM LXD is the container-based...

What are the different types of storage: block, object and file?

By Canonical, 18 May 2015

Networked storage services are generally classified in the way they are consumed and interfaced with on the client side. The most traditional service type is...

What is software-defined storage?

By Canonical, 18 May 2015

What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability...

Meizu launches the Ubuntu MX4 for Developers in China

By Amrisha Prashar, 17 May 2015

In the first of a series of launches, Meizu has announced that the Ubuntu MX4, which will be sold across Europe soon, is immediately available to developers...