The Source

Today at the OpenStack Design Summit in Hong Kong, we announced the Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (Ubuntu OIL). The programme will test and validate the interoperability of hardware and software in a purpose-built lab, giving Ubuntu OpenStack users the reassurance and flexibility of choice. We’re launching the programme with many

Canonical was the first company to commercially distribute and support OpenStack, under the Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure brand. Ubuntu is also the reference operating system for the project. Since 2011, we’ have included the latest version of OpenStack in every Ubuntu release, and made every OpenStack release available for the most recent

I was recently asked to attend a cloud sprint in San Francisco as a front-end developer for the new Juju GUI product. I had the pleasure of finally meeting the guys that I have collaboratively worked with and ultimately been helped by on the project. Here is a collection of things I learnt during my

Big Data comes with big choices, in every way! From the tools you use to the investment you make in people and infrastructure. Although Hadoop is arguably the most popular Big Data platform, there are still many implementation and even more add-ons to choose from. To help you decide which one works best for your

Graham pointed out a recent Wall Street Journal article out to me as I was going on about my recent kitchen renovation (yes, I’ve used IKEA units). It gives a glimpse into IKEA’s ‘painstaking’ and, for me, fascinating design process. Photo by David Even though, being IKEA, they can very much define how people will

Since we released the initial demo of Ubuntu on phones, we’ve been looking at refining the whole Suru theme — the theme on Ubuntu for phones and tablets — and creating visual guidelines for it. Two of the things that we evolved were the treatment of the indented style and the corner size of the

Release month is always a busy one for the web team, and this time was no exception with the Ubuntu 13.10 release last week. In the last few weeks we’ve worked on: Ubuntu 13.10 release: we’ve updated www.ubuntu.com for the latest Ubuntu release Updates to the new Ubuntu OpenStack cloud section: based on some really

Today’s clinic included: A discussion of launcher placement, Brad Well’s Bible app – general design guidance Michael Zanetti’s uAuthenticator app – general design guidance, plus a discussion of naming and how names appear in the dash and in the app header The next clinic is on Wednesday 6th November. We love discussing design, so please

GMIC and Mobile Monday are only a few days away, and we’ll be there. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, will be speaking at GMIC about  “the future of the open source mobile platform movement” during a fireside chat on Tuesday 22nd October at 11:15 am.  Afterwards one of the Canonical team will be demonstrating the

We’re very happy to announce the arrival of Ubuntu 13.10 and OpenStack Havana. Ubuntu is the fastest and easiest way to deploy an OpenStack Havana-based cloud. Of course, we’re not the only way to deploy an OpenStack cloud – the diversity of OpenStack’s contributors is part of what makes it so appealing to both us

13.10 desktop gains Smart Scopes and performance improvements from mobile and desktop convergence effort, paving the way for full converge across all devices. 13.10 includes the first true mobile release of Ubuntu, enabling OEMs, carriers and silicon vendors to integrate Ubuntu for mobile devices in 2014. 13.10 supports service differenti

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with VMWare vSphere integration, faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud en

Ubuntu Server 13.10 is available from 17th October; first fully supported release of the new OpenStack Havana, with faster node installation and a new version of Juju that supports ultra-dense containerised application deployment. Canonical today announced that the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments will be released

The goal of this tutorial series is to demonstrate the power of Juju service orchestration for deploying web applications and infrastructure services. Juju is a service orchestration framework that is designed to make it very easy for application designers to deploy their applications in an easy, repeatable and logical manner without all

Recently I had the privilege of presenting at OpenStack India Day in Bangalore. I was in great company, alongside speakers from SwiftStack, HP, the OpenStack Foundation and other key contributors to OpenStack. The conversations generated at the sold-out event covered a broad range of both technical and industry topics, but the overall tak

In the early days of Ubuntu, it was always a challenge to promote an OS that was so new and little known to the market; we were often asked ‘Ubun what…?”! Over the years, Canonical has grown rapidly, has innovated even faster and the community has spread the word all across the globe. Today, with