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Ubuntu has transformed the ability of Carbonado Intermedia and Auteuristic to remain lean and yet deliver its digital content both on time and on budget. Crashes and the costs associated with them have become a thing of the past.

Kaa is an open-source middleware platform for building and facilitating applications in the realm of Internet of Things. An integrated solution between Kaa IoT platform and Ubuntu is a perfect mix for a rich open-source IoT platform. Ubuntu is widely-adopted, secure and versatile. Kaa provides necessary power to build IoT systems of virtu

First Ubuntu smartphones available in the coming days with BQ on the Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu’s Scopes introduce a new mobile experience for users, a smarter ecosystem dynamic for developers, and unprecedented differentiation opportunities for device manufacturers and mobile carriers Operators in Europe, including 3 Sweden, amena.com, giffgaff

CyberVision is a trusted global provider of IT engineering services that offers extensive technical expertise in the following industries: IoT, mobility, big data and telecom. As the authors of Kaa – an open-source platform for building perfectly tuned cross-technology IoT solutions – CyberVision provides comprehensive services in IoT sof

This is the third in a series of three articles about Mojo. In the first article we introduced Mojo, and in the second article we took a closer look at specifications and manifests. Today we’re going to walk through an example service deployment so you can see Mojo in action. The only things you’ll need

Canonical is excited to announce the addition of Vzzual to its Charm Partner Programme. Vzzual.com allows you to better understand your photo and video assets by offering an automated image tagging (image understanding), image processing, image hosting and image cloud backup service. Samuel Cozzannet, Strategic Programme Manager at Canoni

Canonical today is delighted to welcome Fujitsu, the third-largest IT service provider globally, as its first  Certified Public Cloud partner in Asia. Fujitsu Cloud services portfolio covers Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service as well as cloud management platforms and a wide range of professional m

openHAB is a free software for individual smart home hubs. It is highly flexible and extensible and adapts much better to the users needs than most commercial offerings. Ubuntu Snappy Core makes it possible to pre-package and distribute openHAB for a large variety of embedded platforms. Ubuntu Snappy Core will greatly facilitate the insta

hSenid Mobile is the most recent addition to the growing Charm Partner Programme.  The programme lets solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant integration, scaling at the click of a button, simple to share blueprint deployments and an easy way to deliver solutions in minutes. “We bel

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu Core is available fo

This month, we had some news on Snappy, MAAS and Mojo, but also the results to our annual cloud survey are in! If that was not enough, find out more about our event plans over the next few weeks and sign up for our latest webinar! Here’s a quick recap of an exciting start to 2015. “Snappy”

Canonical ran its sixth annual Ubuntu Server and Cloud Survey at the end of 2014. The survey aims to provide an overview of the enterprise cloud market, including emerging and changing trends, current challenges and technology preferences. It also tracks the adoption of OpenStack and Ubuntu as well as public cloud usage. This year, the

In the design team we keep some projects in Launchpad (as canonical-webmonkeys), and some project in Github (as UbuntuDesign), meaning we work in both Bazaar and Git. The need to synchronise Github to Launchpad Some of our Github projects need to be also stored in Launchpad, as some of our systems only have access to

From months to one week: How IIJ is shipping OpenStack Clouds quicker with MAAS and Juju Technologies that enable companies to move quickly in the cloud are continuing to gain traction. When we heard that the Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) were using OpenStack, MAAS, and Juju to develop quick-to-deploy entire datacentres in shipping cont

Here in the design team we use both Bazaar and Git to keep track our projects’ hostory. We quite often end up coverting our projects from Bazaar to Git or vice-versa. Here are some tips on how to do that. To convert revision history between Git and Bazaar, we will use their respective fast–import features.

In the previous post we introduced Mojo. Today we’re going to take a closer look at how it all fits together. mojo run is the most often used command. As a refresher, here’s the diagram explaining how Mojo’s manifest can be used in different environments: Mojo looks for a manifest file that defines the steps