Canonical

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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
22 October 2020

Ubuntu 20.10 on Raspberry Pi delivers the full Linux desktop and micro clouds

Article Cloud and server

22nd October 2020: Canonical today released Ubuntu 20.10 with optimised Raspberry Pi images for desktop in support of learners, inventors, educators and entrepreneurs, bringing the world’s most open platform to the world’s most accessible hardware. “In this release, we celebrate the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s commitment...

Canonical
22 October 2020


Canonical
21 October 2020

Canonical & Ubuntu Join AfricaCom Virtual 2020

Article Ubuntu

This year, AfricaCom becomes a virtual event as part of the new Virtual Africa Tech Festival – the largest and most influential tech and telecoms event on the continent. Canonical and Ubuntu will be joining as a Lead Stream Sponsor, introducing the  Digital Infrastructure Investment stream of sessions and exhibits with...

Canonical
21 October 2020


Canonical
21 October 2020

Automating Server Provisioning in phoenixNap’s Bare Metal Cloud with MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service)

Article Ubuntu

As part of the effort to build a flexible, cloud-native ready infrastructure, phoenixNAP collaborated with Canonical on enabling nearly instant OS installation. Canonical’s MAAS (Metal-as-a-Service) solution allows for automated OS installation on phoenixNAP’s Bare Metal Cloud, making it possible to set up a server in...

Canonical
21 October 2020


Canonical
15 October 2020

Introducing HA MicroK8s, the ultra-reliable, minimal Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

15th October 2020: Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once...

Canonical
15 October 2020


Canonical
7 October 2020

Emilia Torino shares what goes into keeping Ubuntu secure

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? In this blog series, we get to know some of the different employees that make up our company. Emilia Torino is a Security Generalist at Canonical, and she has over 10 years of experience working in software engineering at an enterprise level.

Canonical
7 October 2020


Canonical
5 October 2020

Canonical expands collaboration with NVIDIA to bring AI to the edge

Article Ubuntu

Canonical has been working closely with NVIDIA for many years to fuel innovation and support open source software with the power of accelerated processing. That already allowed us to jointly deliver GPU acceleration into Linux, OpenStack and container workloads on traditional datacenter servers. We continued working...

Canonical
5 October 2020


Canonical
5 October 2020

NVIDIA’s Ariel Kit Explains How NVIDIA BlueField DPUs Are Redefining Data Center Services

Article Ubuntu

NVIDIA is redefining the data center around the concept of data processing units (DPUs): powerful network cards running Ubuntu out of the box that combine hardware and software to deliver new classes of cloud architectures – in the data center and at the edge.  Whether for private clouds, edge computing or data center...

Canonical
5 October 2020


Canonical
10 September 2020

How Aldo’s passion for artificial intelligence and machine learning led to a role at Canonical

Article People and culture

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, but who are the people behind Canonical? This blog is the second in a series getting to know some of the different employees that make up our company.  For today’s blog, we spoke with Aldo Martinez, a member of our US-based team. Aldo’s passion for artificial intelligence and machine

Canonical
10 September 2020


Canonical
7 September 2020

How Canonical remotely delivers and supports customer cloud deployments

Article Cloud and server

The widespread shift to remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been a disruptive change for countless businesses; some 13% of organisations say they have faced major disruption (1). But at Canonical, remote working has long been the status quo for many of our teams. In spite of the challenging...

Canonical
7 September 2020


Canonical
2 September 2020

HP Z series on Ubuntu – AI development on enterprise workstations, now in your remote office

Article Desktop

Today, HP announced the launch of its Z series of laptops and workstations certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the latest additions to their popular professional workstation line. Made to drive AI and machine learning and with hardware that is also suited to 3D and virtual reality development, the Z series is an ideal...

Canonical
2 September 2020


Canonical
25 August 2020

Kubernetes 1.19 available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.19 spanning from public cloud to the edge, covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm.  “As with all releases, Canonical is committed to fast following so that users benefit from the latest features, lifecycle operations and enterprise support in...

Canonical
25 August 2020


Canonical
13 August 2020

Trilio and Canonical extend partnership to enable data protection for Charmed OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Trilio, announced today an extension of their partnership to include TrilioVault data protection capabilities with Charmed OpenStack as a tested and validated joint solution. TrilioVault for OpenStack is a cloud-native, application-centric data protection platform that was designed to provide native backup...

Canonical
13 August 2020


Canonical
11 August 2020

Kubernetes 1.19 release candidate available for testing

Article Canonical announcements

The Kubernetes 1.19 release candidate is now available for download and experimentation ahead of general availability later this month. You can try it now with MicroK8s. To get the latest Kubernetes on your machine, install MicroK8s and get a lightweight, zero-ops K8s cluster in no time: sudo snap install microk8s...

Canonical
11 August 2020


Canonical
6 August 2020

Infographic: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Today, the first point release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS went live! To celebrate, we wanted to share how Ubuntu has evolved since the first release in 2004 to where we are today with 20.04. Thanks to those in the community and our users for your contributions and joining us on this journey. Upgrade to Ubuntu

Canonical
6 August 2020