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"software defined"

Canonical
9 March 2017

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was consumer targeting businesses looking for device/mobility updates, IoT advances, and innovation around artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality. On the other hand, enterprise b ...

Canonical
22 February 2017

Why does software-defined everything matter?

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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
18 June 2015

World’s first 25/100 gigabit open ethernet-based switch launches

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical is delighted to support the launch of the world’s first 25/100 Gigabit open Ethernet-based switch, being introduced to the market today by Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX). The new switch runs on ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core and will offer a new level of flexibility for network environments.   Mellanox is the leading supplier ...

Canonical
9 April 2015

FortyCloud joins Canonical’s growing Charm Partner Programme

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

FortyCloud,  a pioneer in network Security ­as ­a ­Service for the cloud, is the most recent member to join Canonical’s growing charm ecosystem. Canonical’s Charm Partner Programme helps solution providers make best use of Canonical’s cloud orchestration tool, Juju, enabling instant workload deployment, integration, and scaling at the cli ...

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

The power of Software Defined Networking appliances – SDNA

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

For Mobile World Congress we purchased the cheapest Intel server with 6 ports from the Amazon Store: After installing Snappy Ubuntu Core and working with partners like Microsoft, F5, Dataart, Cybervision, Forgerock, ARM, Balabit, Zabbix, etc. and the Ubuntu Core engineering team, the server became this: A switch, firewall and load balance ...