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Canonical
28 February 2017

Canonical wins Orange Award for Converged Computing at MWC 17

Article Phone and tablet

BARCELONA, Spain – February 28, 2017 – Canonical announced today it was awarded the Orange Outstanding achievement for converged computing & digital openness at the Orange Device Partner Awards ceremony. With 25 awards over four categories, the Orange Device Partner Awards celebrates the 10th anniversary of the...

Canonical
28 February 2017

Canonical
27 February 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017: day one recap

Article Cloud and server

It’s the last week of February and that can only mean one thing, Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain. This event, unlike other mega shows, has stood the test of time and has maintained its title as the premier telecom, device, and Internet of Things (IoT) conference in the world. For the past several

Canonical
27 February 2017

Canonical
22 February 2017

Why does software-defined everything matter?

Article Cloud and server

Does anybody still think of a phone as a way of just making calls? According to Informate Mi less than 10% of the time you spend on a phone is spent giving calls. That’s because phones have evolved from single function device to malleable pocket computers whose entire purpose is defined by the apps that

Canonical
22 February 2017

Maarten Ectors
17 February 2017

MWC17: The future of wireless networks

Article Internet of Things

The telecom industry is not as buoyant as it was some years back. Telecom operators ‘ revenues are under pressure due to innovations from over the top players. Costs are spiralling out of control because of 4/5G deployments, fibre to the premise, social networking data explosions, 4K video streaming, IoT and more. Time...

Maarten Ectors
17 February 2017

Samuel Cozannet
15 February 2017

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 1/3

Article Cloud and server

A few weeks ago I shared a side project about Building a DYI GPU cluster for k8s to play with Kubernetes with a proper ROI vs. AWS g2 instances. This was spectacularly interesting when AWS was lagging behind with old nVidia K20s cards (which are not supported anymore on the latest drivers). But with the

Samuel Cozannet
15 February 2017

Maarten Ectors
6 February 2017

10 crazy IoT ideas that can soon become real

Article Internet of Things

1) Smart cities: revenue generating fountains What if instead of being a cost to cities, fountains become a revenue generator? Crazy idea? Just put the same coin accepting mechanism you find in vending machines and allow tourists to switch the fountain on for 30 seconds to get the ideal photo taken. But why not put

Maarten Ectors
6 February 2017

James Donner
3 February 2017

Cloud Chatter: January 2017

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the first edition of 2017. In this issue we showcase what you can expect from us and invite you to meet with us at Mobile World Congress if you’re planning to be in Barcelona. We share our latest eBook on server provisioning and what Network Admins and IT Pros need to know to

James Donner
3 February 2017

Amrisha Prashar
19 January 2017

Winners of #UbuntuAtMWC

Article Cloud and server

A couple weeks ago we held a competition to invite you to join us at MWC by telling us what you wanted to see from #UbuntuAtMWC across Cloud, Devices or IoT! We had some awesome entries which were very hard to limit down to 10! A big thank you to all who entered including our

Amrisha Prashar
19 January 2017

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

Interested in joining us at MWC?

Article Desktop

Mobile World Congress is round the corner! We’ll be in Hall P3 and can’t wait to see those of you that can make it there. So we’re giving away tickets! Instead of us telling you what we’re excited about, we want to hear from you. In one tweet, tell us a cool story about what

Amrisha Prashar
5 January 2017

Canonical
23 March 2016

MWC 2016: Our biggest show yet

Article Cloud and server

For the whole Canonical team, Mobile World Congress 2016 was a momentous event. Not only were we sitting alongside some of the biggest technology companies in the world in Hall 3, but our big, beautiful stand was the best yet; showing off our latest innovation perfectly. Mobile World Congress was the perfect place to

Canonical
23 March 2016

Amrisha Prashar
3 March 2016

Ubuntu and Startups are a match made in code

Article Internet of Things

We’ve just come back from an awesome MWC! Not only did we showcase new tablets, phones and developments in Cloud, but we had a whole wall dedicated to IoT established companies and startups using Ubuntu Core. Our partner startups ranged from wireless base stations, smart cities, autonomous drones through to showing how...

Amrisha Prashar
3 March 2016

Canonical
29 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Big Event, Big Data

Article Cloud and server

Philip McAleese talks sensor data and IoT bike lights Apparently, over 100,000 people attended Mobile World Congress 2016 this past week. I was one of them. One of 100,000 people that had to be registered, tracked, and admitted daily to the event. As small as I feel in that 100,000, that total is equal to

Canonical
29 February 2016

Canonical
26 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

Article Cloud and server

Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There

Canonical
26 February 2016

Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT)...

Canonical
25 February 2016

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