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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
18 May 2015

LXD crushes KVM in density and speed

Cloud and server Article

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 hypervisor lead by Canonical. Today, Canonical published benchmarks showing that LXD runs guest machines 14.5 times more densely and with 57% less latency than KVM. The container-bas ...

Canonical
18 May 2015

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

Cloud and server Article

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 shared filesystem, or simply “file storage”, which as the name implies offers to multiple clients the ability to access a single shared folder. The two most popular shared filesystem ...

Canonical
18 May 2015

What is software-defined storage?

Cloud and server Article

What is software-defined storage, and how do NAS and SAN appliances compare to software-defined storage? Large-scale storage presents an inherent scalability challenge: how do you connect multiple disk drives with producers and consumers of data while ensuring performance and durability — and furthermore, without blowing out bandwidth, ca ...

Canonical
12 May 2015

Canonical Cloud Chatter: April 2015 Newsletter

Cloud and server Article

This April saw our new release, Ubuntu 15.04! We also have some great webinars, training courses and product announcements to tell you about and some exciting partner ecosystem news for you. Meanwhile, we’re getting ready for OpenStack Summit in Vancouver – we hope to see you all there! So dive in and enjoy! Webinar: Designing ...

Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT World: Canonical & Industry Leaders Drive IoT Commercialization

Internet of Things News

Host of new Snappy Ubuntu Core-enabled devices demonstrate revenue opportunities in IoT First commercially-designed IoT devices with GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft & DataArt London and San Francisco, May, 11 2015 – Canonical is collaborating with some of the world’s smartest technology brands, including GE’s FirstBuild, Acer, Microsoft ...

Canonical
11 May 2015

IoT: Canonical and GE’s FirstBuild Collaborate on Smart Refrigerator

Internet of Things News

San Francisco, CA – May 11, 2015 – FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community is set to showcase ChillHub, its community-generated smart refrigerator in the Ubuntu booth (Stand 545) at the second annual Internet of Things World conference at the Moscone Center on May 12 – 13, 2015. ChillHub is a refrigerator with two ...

Canonical
7 May 2015

hSenid’s Telco Application Platform available in the Charm Store

Cloud and server Article

The hSenid Cloud Telco Application Platform (Cloud TAP) is now available in Canonical’s Juju Charm Store. The Charm works with Juju from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Juju allows developers to design their application architecture like they would on a virtual whiteboard, with boxes for services, and lines to connect them. The Juju ...

Canonical
6 May 2015

Introduction to nova-compute-lxd

Cloud and server Article

LXD is a lightweight container hypervisor for full system containers, unlike Docker and Rocket which is for application containers. This means that the container will look and feel like a regular VM – but will act like a container. LXD uses the same container technology found in the Linux kernel (cgroups, namespaces, LSM, etc). The ...

Canonical
6 May 2015

Live Migration in LXD

Cloud and server Article

There has been a lot of interest on the various mailing lists as well as internally at Canonical about the state of migration in LXD, so I thought I’d write a bit about the current state of affairs. Migration in LXD today passes the “Doom demo” test, i.e. it works well enough to reproduce the ...

Canonical
5 May 2015

Ubuntu now available for pre-order on AMD-based laptops at Ebuyer.com

Desktop News

A number of new HP solutions preloaded with Ubuntu and powered by AMD technology are available on pre-order from Ebuyer.com Increases Ubuntu’s e-tail presence within the UK 05 May 2015, London: Electronic Commerce Retailer Ebuyer has launched a series of AMD-based HP laptops preloaded with Ubuntu. These devices are perfect for business an ...

Canonical
5 May 2015

Using Snappy OVA Images when you don’t have a Cloud Fabric

Cloud and server Article

The Snappy OVA images are nothing more than the Ubuntu Snappy Cloud images that have been wrapped up in an OVA container. Snappy Cloud Images expect to be running within a Cloud environment where a meta-data source is provided. But since OVA is a virtualization appliance format, users have expressed some confusion as how they ...

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