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19 February 2020

Bosch Rexroth adopts Ubuntu Core and snaps for app-based ctrlX AUTOMATION platform

Article Canonical announcements

19th February 2020 – Canonical today announced that Bosch Rexroth has selected Ubuntu Core for their app-based platform ctrlX AUTOMATION. ctrlX AUTOMATION leverages Ubuntu Core, designed for embedded devices, and snaps, the universal Linux application containers, to deliver an open source platform to remove the barriers...

Canonical
19 February 2020

Canonical
11 February 2020

Amazon EC2 Hibernation for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS now available

Article Cloud and server

AWS and Canonical today announce the public release of Amazon EC2 Hibernation support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, bringing support for this feature on par with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Hibernation allows you to pause your Amazon EC2 Instances when not required and resume them at a later time. Applications will start up exactly from...

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11 February 2020

Canonical
21 January 2020

Canonical introduces Anbox Cloud – scalable Android™ in the cloud

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical today announced Anbox Cloud, a platform that containerises workloads using Android1 as a guest operating system enabling enterprises to distribute applications from the cloud. Anbox Cloud allows enterprises and service providers to deliver mobile applications at scale, more securely and independently of a...

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21 January 2020

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4 December 2019

Canonical announces Ubuntu Pro for Amazon Web Services

Article Canonical announcements

New premium Ubuntu images with extended security, kernel live patching and more 4th December 2019 – Canonical today announced the availability of Ubuntu Pro images for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Available via AWS Marketplace, covering Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS, these new premium images allow enterprises...

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4 December 2019

Canonical
20 November 2019

Canonical introduces Charmed OSM to enable telcos with network functions management and orchestration

Article Cloud and server

November 20, 2019: Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced Charmed OSM – a pure upstream Open Source MANO (OSM) distribution designed for production-grade, highly available and scalable deployments. Charmed OSM provides telecommunications service providers (TSPs) with a generic approach to network functions...

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20 November 2019

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14 November 2019

Canonical enhances Kubernetes reliability for edge, IoT and multi-cloud

Kubernetes Cloud and server

14 November 2019: Canonical today announced high-availability clustering in MicroK8s, the workstation and appliance Kubernetes, and enterprise SQL database integration for its multi-cloud Charmed Kubernetes. “The rapid rise of enterprise and edge Kubernetes creates a challenge for corporate IT, with thousands of edge...

Canonical
14 November 2019

Canonical
11 November 2019

Canonical at TechWeek Frankfurt

Article Cloud and server

Date: Nov 13-14Location: Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, GermanyBooth: 957 The TechWeek Frankfurt trade show will explore solutions to technology challenges organisations face across cloud computing and security, DevOps practices, Big Data management and more. With these major infrastructure themes in mind, the Ubuntu and...

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11 November 2019

Canonical
7 November 2019

Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to accelerate enterprise AI adoption in multi-cloud environments and at the edge

Article AI

Enterprises currently face the challenge of how to adopt and integrate AI and ML into their operations effectively, at scale and with minimum complexity. In tandem, today’s AI workloads have become increasingly advanced and the compute power required to support them has exponentially increased. Canonical and NVIDIA...

Canonical
7 November 2019

Canonical
5 November 2019

Access ESM, now free to the community, via the updated Ubuntu Advantage client

Article Cloud and server

Canonical is happy to announce that all community users are entitled to a free Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure account for access to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) and Kernel Livepatch* for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for all official Ubuntu Members. ESM...

Canonical
5 November 2019

Canonical
17 October 2019

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

Article AI

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance. “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the...

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17 October 2019

Canonical
15 October 2019

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

Article People and culture

We are so excited about what just happened that we felt we should tell everyone about it! A group of 24 of us at Canonical from various teams including Sales, HR and Engineering, attended the Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida. This year, it was an epic gathering of more than 26,000 people from all

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15 October 2019

Canonical
18 September 2019

Kubernetes 1.16 available from Canonical

Article Ubuntu

Canonical announces full enterprise support for Kubernetes 1.16, with support covering Charmed Kubernetes, MicroK8s and kubeadm. MicroK8s will be updated with Kubernetes 1.16 enabling users access to the latest upstream release with a single-line command in under 60 seconds. In addition, MicroK8s gets new add-ons with...

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18 September 2019

Canonical
9 August 2019

Enhanced Livepatch desktop integration available with Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Article Desktop

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS has just been released. For the Desktop, newer stable versions of GNOME components have been included, as well as a new feature – Livepatch desktop integration. As usual with LTS point releases, the main changes are a refreshed hardware enablement stack (newer versions of the kernel, xorg & drivers)...

Canonical
9 August 2019

Canonical
5 August 2019

Charmed Kubernetes update for upstream API server vulnerability

Article Cloud and server

An upstream Kubernetes vulnerability (CVE-2019-11247) has been identified where the API server mistakenly allows access to a cluster-scoped custom resource, if the request is made as if the resource were namespaced. Authorisations for the resource accessed in this manner are enforced using roles and role bindings within...

Canonical
5 August 2019