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Canonical
15 July 2020

Canonical launches enhanced GSI partner programme, bringing scalability and automation to modernise enterprise IT deployments

Article Ubuntu

15 July 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces the launch of its enhanced Global System Integrator (GSI) Programme. Alongside new partnership benefits, it includes resell and integration opportunities for the entirety of Canonical’s secure, open source portfolio for the data centre, multi-cloud, edge...

Canonical
15 July 2020

Canonical
8 July 2020

Canonical enables Linux desktop app support with Flutter

Article Canonical announcements

By Chris Sells (Google) & Ken VanDine (Canonical) Google’s goal for Flutter has always been to provide a portable framework for building beautiful UIs that run at native speeds no matter what platform you target. To validate this capability, we started by focusing on the mobile platforms, Android and iOS, where we’ve...

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8 July 2020

Canonical
23 June 2020

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed is now available

Article Canonical announcements

The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is now available in North America and selected EMEA countries* certified with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed to work straight out of the box. This is the first system available on the market with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, released in April 2020, and continues the long-standing partnership with...

Canonical
23 June 2020

Canonical
15 June 2020

OVHcloud drives flash storage strategy with LXD

Article Ceph

With more than 1.5 million global customers – including Sainsburys and Michelin – OVHcloud is Europe’s largest cloud computing provider, and the third largest web hosting company in the world. It goes without saying that storage is mission critical for an organisation like OVHcloud, but finding a solution that was...

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15 June 2020

Canonical
2 June 2020

MicroK8s now native on Windows and macOS

Article Cloud and server

Windows and macOS developers can now use MicroK8s natively! Use kubectl at the Windows or Mac command line to interact with MicroK8s locally just as you would on Linux. Clean integration into the desktop means better workflows to dev, build and test your containerised apps. MicroK8s is a conformant upstream Kubernetes,...

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2 June 2020

Canonical
21 May 2020

Kubernetes GitOps with Azure Arc and Charmed Kubernetes

Article Canonical announcements

This week, Canonical announced the integration of Charmed Kubernetes with Microsoft Azure Arc. This integration provides businesses with a centralised place to manage their Kubernetes clusters and deploy their applications at scale, from cloud to the edge. The Azure Arc dashboard enables management and governance of...

Canonical
21 May 2020

Canonical
20 May 2020

FIPS 140-2 certification for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical has received FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, with FIPS-validated OpenSSL-1.1.1. modules included. This certification enables organisations to meet compliance requirements within the public sector, healthcare and finance industries when utilising Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
20 May 2020

Canonical
13 May 2020

OpenStack Ussuri available on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS

Article Cloud and server

Canonical today announced the general availability of OpenStack Ussuri on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. The most notable enhancements of today’s OpenStack upstream release are stabilisation efforts around the Open Virtual Networking (OVN) driver and the Masakari project which allow organisations to run highly...

Canonical
13 May 2020

Canonical
23 April 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS arrives

Article Canonical announcements

April 23rd 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced the general availability of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, with a particular emphasis on security and performance. “Accelerating open source globally is our mission. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is the new state of the art open source platform for the enterprise and the...

Canonical
23 April 2020

Canonical
22 April 2020

2004 to 20.04 LTS: 16 years of Ubuntu mascots

Article Design

Creating a new release of Ubuntu is always a complex undertaking. At Canonical, delivering Ubuntu is our core mission, and each new version represents the culmination of months of effort from colleagues throughout our organisation – not to mention the contributions from our wider, open source community. And as our...

Canonical
22 April 2020

Canonical
21 April 2020

2004 to 20.04 LTS: Ubuntu in popular culture

Article Desktop

When we launched Ubuntu back in 2004, our mission to make well-supported, free open source software available to everyone, everywhere was a bold one – but today, Ubuntu is one of the world’s most popular operating systems. One consequence of that popularity is that Ubuntu has very much entered the public consciousness,...

Canonical
21 April 2020

Canonical
16 April 2020

You are invited to the virtual Ubuntu Masters event

Telecommunications Cloud and server

The Ubuntu Masters Conference is a platform for IT practitioners to share how they are solving industry-wide challenges with the global engineering community. These are the real-life use cases they are executing in their professional environments today, giving you actionable ideas to take into your own corporate...

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16 April 2020

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1 April 2020

Canonical announces Managed Apps to simplify enterprise cloud operations

Article DevOps

1st April 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces Managed Apps – enabling enterprises to have their apps deployed and operated by Canonical as a fully managed service. At launch, Canonical will cover ten widely used cloud-native database and LMA (logging, monitoring and alerting) apps on multi-cloud...

Canonical
1 April 2020

Canonical
24 March 2020

Kubernetes 1.18 available from Canonical

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical today announced full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.18, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. Committed to releasing in tandem with upstream Kubernetes, enterprises can benefit from the latest additions to enhance their day to day operations. “Canonical’s drive is to enable...

Canonical
24 March 2020