The Source

This month, we had news on Big Data, Juju and Mojo. We also introduced our global OpenStack roadshow kicking off next month, as well as our new classroom-based OpenStack training courses scheduled for April and May. Finally, we also had some great partner ecosystem news for you. So dive in and enjoy!   OpenStack Events Firstly, Canonical

Juniper Networks and Canonical Partner to Deliver OpenStack-Based Cloud Solutions for the Telecommunications Industry Extended Partnership Provides Carrier-Grade, Scalable OpenStack Clouds for Telcos to Build IP Platforms that Support Network Functions Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking Solutions SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 26, 20

Nwave has a vision to be the leading global enabler of low-power, wide-area wireless network infrastructure, edge-devices and solutions, and is the only company worldwide to be bridging the connectivity gap by providing all the essential building blocks to create full-suite IoT solutions. By combining Nwave’s cutting-edge communications t

IT infrastructure specialist Gyrocom has become an Ubuntu partner. It will deliver Canonical products Ubuntu Advantage, Ubuntu OpenStack, BootStack to its EMEA customers as part of its mission to drive efficiency, simplify and automate IT infrastructure. Graham Brown, Gyrocom’s MD comments, “This partnership is key in Gyrocom’s toolkit un

Coming up: training course in Utrecht, Netherlands We are pleased to announce availability of the Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training programme – designed for companies that have decided to use OpenStack, the world’s most powerful open cloud platform. This new training programme is an intensive 3-day hands-on course that will give you

Partnership will deliver OpenStack cloud solutions, and training based on the world’s most popular cloud operating system, Ubuntu. Hanover, MD – February 17, 2015 — Alliance Technology Group, a national solutions integrator that delivers scalable cost-effective infrastructure solutions to telecom and enterprise customers, has announced it

Canonical is pleased to announce key partnerships for industrial and telecoms IoT, underscoring the importance of security for critical infrastructure by investing in fast, automated, reliable updates for the machines that drive networking and industrial systems. Critical infrastructure systems are now an attack vector for espionage and d

Join Canonical for “OpenStack In Action” See the world’s most popular Openstack implementation in action, gain insights from the world’s largest OpenStack deployments in telco, finance, media and government environments, meet the architects of Canonical’s OpenStack strategy, and exchange views on requirements for enterprise private clouds

The first Microsoft Azure hosted service to run Linux (on Ubuntu) announced at Strata Conference This week thousands of people are in California at Strata + Hadoop World to learn more about the technology and business of big data. At the Strata Conference, Microsoft announced yesterday the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu. This is

Talligent, a member of Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme, has successfully completed its first charmed solution, OpenBook v2.5, which is now available in the Juju Charm Store.  OpenBook reliably solves the customer lifecycle of onboarding, self-service, and cloud billing or charge-back with minimal manual intervention. Using Juju Charms

We’ve submitted over 30 talks to the upcoming ODS in Vancouver and really need your help to make ensure they are included in the schedule. We’ve listed them all below with links to where to vote for each talk. The OpenStack Summit talk selection process is broken Speaker: Mark Baker Track: Community Building OpenStack is

Ninja Blocks is building the future of smart home control with open source software and visionary technology.  The new Ninja Sphere connects all of the devices in your home and brings the intelligence to make them work together. With gesture control and an LED matrix display, the Ubuntu powered device allows for intuitive physical interac

Project Calico will be one of Canonical’s several technology demos at Mobile World Congress in Hall 8.1 at App Planet Stand CC8.20. Metaswitch’s Project Calico is an open-source solution for virtual networking in cloud data centers. It is integrated with Canonical’s Juju Charms orchestration tool, which allows a user to quickly and easily

Erle Robotics is building the next generation of open Linux-based personal drones that will educate, teach and inspire about robotics; their “Erle-Copter” is the first multicopter powered by the Ubuntu Core! We are delighted to reveal the Erle-Copter as the world’s first Ubuntu Core powered drone that will stay secure automatically and ca

Thanks to Erle Robotics Snappy Ubuntu Core is now airborne. See the first Ubuntu Core powered drone fly. Erle Robotics said the experience so far was amazing and Snappy Ubuntu is super lightweight.

The following is a guest post by Samuel Cozannet, a Strategic Program Manager for Canonical, an Azure partner and the company behind Ubuntu. At Canonical, we’re really happy to see Microsoft increasingly engage with the open source community. This is particularly true with its cloud platform, Microsoft Azure, where users can now easily sp