Blog posts tagged
"Canonical"

103 posts


Canonical
9 July 2018

Minimal Ubuntu, on public clouds and Docker Hub

Article Canonical announcements

Today we are delighted to introduce the new Minimal Ubuntu, optimized for automated use at scale, with a tiny package set and minimal security cross-section. Speed, performance and stability are primary concerns for cloud developers and ops. “The small footprint of Minimal Ubuntu, when deployed with fast VM provisioning...

Canonical
9 July 2018


Canonical
13 June 2018

451 Research benchmarks public and private infrastructure cost

Article Cloud and server

Independent Report highlights the TCO of Canonical’s managed private cloud in a diverse multi-cloud strategy and enterprise infrastructure portfolio 451 Research’s latest report, ‘Busting the myth of private cloud economics ’, found that Canonical’s managed private OpenStack offering, BootStack, delivers private cloud...

Canonical
13 June 2018


Jamie Bennett
1 June 2018

The key IoT use cases that will drive 5G adoption

Article Cloud and server

2020, the year that we expect 5G networks to begin turning on is not that far away with some already starting early so it is inevitable that the IoT will adapt to the new features that it brings. Our increasingly connected world, sometimes affectionately called the ‘hyper-connected IoT’, is driving demand for bandwidth...

Jamie Bennett
1 June 2018


Canonical
22 May 2018

Canonical Managed Cloud adds data protection and recovery with Trilio

Article Canonical announcements

Canonical BootStack and Ubuntu Advantage customers now can access TrilioVault OpenStack Vancouver: – May 22, 2018 – Canonical and Trilio announced today a partnership agreement to deliver TrilioVault backup and recovery solutions as part of BootStack, Canonical’s fully managed OpenStack private cloud solution....

Canonical
22 May 2018


Canonical
26 April 2018

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS optimised for security, multi-cloud, containers & AI

News Canonical announcements

26th April 2018, London, UK: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – the newest version of the most widely used Linux for workstations, cloud and IoT, is now available. “Multi-cloud operations are the new normal” said Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical and founder of Ubuntu. “Boot-time and performance-optimised images of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...

Canonical
26 April 2018


Canonical
11 April 2018

Ubuntu available on IBM LinuxOne Rockhopper II

News Cloud and server

IBM has announced IBM z14 model ZR1 and LinuxONE Rockhopper II, an expansion to a family of IBM Z servers which bring the benefits of z14 technology to organizations ranging from large enterprises to startups. Where IBM Z and LinuxONE were at one time available only through frames, these systems can now fit into any

Canonical
11 April 2018


Canonical
9 April 2018

Canonical and CPLANE partner to simplify cloud management

Article Cloud and server

Recently announced, Canonical and CPLANE will now offer a distributed cloud orchestration and software-defined networking solution to simplify the complexity of managing distributed clouds. Canonical will deliver high-performance distributed cloud orchestration to its customers with CPLANE’s Multi-Site Manager (MSM)....

Canonical
9 April 2018


Canonical
19 March 2018

Firefox Quantum snap now available on Linux-based devices

News Canonical announcements

London, UK, 19 March 2018: Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Mozilla has launched a Firefox snap bringing their latest Quantum browser to multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Developed by Canonical, snaps are a universal application packaging format for Linux, allowing them to work...

Canonical
19 March 2018


Canonical
15 February 2018

Storage Made Easy adds Charm to Canonical’s Juju ecosystem

Article Canonical announcements

Storage Made Easy (SME) today announced the availability of the Storage Made Easy™ Enterprise File Fabric™ charm through Canonical’s Juju charm store. The store provides access to a wide range of best practice solutions which can be deployed to public clouds such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure as well as private clouds such as

Canonical
15 February 2018


Canonical
30 January 2018

NTT TechnoCross becomes Canonical Certified Support Partner in Japan

Article Cloud and server

NTT TechnoCross Corporation has signed a partnership agreement with Canonical to provide strengthened OSS support to its customers in Japan including OpenStack deployments. NTT TechnoCross will provide Japanese support for domestic customers and will be the first contact for customer enquiries and fault isolation and...

Canonical
30 January 2018


Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018

Meltdown and Spectre Status Update

Article Canonical announcements

On Tuesday, January 9, 2018 we released Ubuntu kernel updates for mitigation of CVE-2017-5754 (aka Meltdown / Variant 3) for the x86-64 architecture. Releases were made for the following supported Ubuntu series: 12.04 ESM Precise (kernel v3.2) 14.04 LTS Trusty (kernel v3.13) 16.04 LTS Xenial (kernel v4.4) 17.10 Artful...

Dean Henrichsmeyer
12 January 2018


Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018

Ubuntu Updates for the Meltdown / Spectre Vulnerabilities

Article Canonical announcements

  For up-to-date patch, package, and USN links, please refer to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/KnowledgeBase/SpectreAndMeltdown   Unfortunately, you’ve probably already read about one of the most widespread security issues in modern computing history — colloquially known as “Meltdown” (CVE-2017-5754) and...

Dustin Kirkland
4 January 2018


Canonical
5 December 2017

Canonical and Rancher Labs announce Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and Rancher Labs announce joint Kubernetes Cloud Native Platform offering Kubecon, Austin, Texas –  5th Dec: Canonical, in partnership with Rancher Labs today announce a turn-key application delivery platform built on Ubuntu, Kubernetes, and Rancher 2.0. The new Cloud Native Platform will make it easy for...

Canonical
5 December 2017


Canonical
2 November 2017

PT Biznet Gio Nusantara Launches NEO Cloud with Canonical BootStack

News Canonical announcements

PT Biznet Gio Nusantara Launches NEO Cloud – a Leading Cloud Computing Platform for App Developers – running on Ubuntu OpenStack on Canonical’s BootStack managed cloud.  NEO Cloud is built on OpenStack technology, the first cloud computing service in Indonesia providing Multiple Availability Zones and Multiple Regions....

Canonical
2 November 2017