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March’s reading list

Here are the best links shared by the design team in March 2017: China’s zombie factories and unborn cities IXD17: Let’s Make the World We Want to Live In...

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud...

Snaps are now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS desktop and server

The snapd team recently announced a new release of snapd supporting Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) for servers and desktop (i386, amd64). The snapd service is what...

USB hotplug with LXD containers

USB devices in containersIt can be pretty useful to pass USB devices to a container. Be that some measurement equipment in a lab or maybe more commonly, an...

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know

New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business...

NVidia CUDA inside a LXD container

GPU inside a container LXD supports GPU passthrough but this is implemented in a very different way than what you would expect from a virtual machine. With...

Battlestar solution

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts...


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Machine learning with snaps

Late last year Amazon introduce a new EC2 image customized for Machine Learning (ML) workloads. To make things easier for data scientists and researchers,...

Job concurrency in Kubernetes: LXD and CPU pinning to the rescue

A few days ago, someone shared with me a project to run video transcoding jobs in Kubernetes. During her tests, made on a default Kubernetes installation on...

Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market

  In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or...

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise...

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server...

Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric

Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany,...

Out of date software leaves you vulnerable

Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel wrote an article highlighting that out of date software on private clouds was leaving government and political party information...

Webinar: How to ensure the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu 12.04

Many enterprises still run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but updates will end soon. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to 14.04 LTS or 16.04 LTS. For some...


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