Blog posts tagged
"Ubuntu Advantage"

75 posts


Canonical
24 April 2017

OpenStack public cloud, from Stockholm to Dubai and everywhere between

News Canonical announcements

City Network joins the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme First major CPC Partner in the Nordics City Network, a leading European provider of OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) today joined the Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud programme. Through its public cloud service ‘City Cloud’, companies across...

Canonical
24 April 2017


Canonical
20 April 2017

Certified Ubuntu Images available on Oracle Bare Metal Cloud Service

News Canonical announcements

Developers offered options of where to run either demanding workloads or less compute-intensive applications, in a highly available cloud environment. Running development and production on Certified Ubuntu can simplify operations and reduce engineering costs Certified Ubuntu images are now available in the Oracle Bare...

Canonical
20 April 2017


Canonical
18 April 2017

Unitas Global and Canonical provide fully-managed enterprise OpenStack

News Canonical announcements

Unitas Global, the leading enterprise hybrid cloud solution provider, and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading operating system for container, cloud, scale out, and hyperscale computing announced they will provide a new fully managed and hosted OpenStack private cloud to enterprise clients around the world....

Canonical
18 April 2017


Canonical
13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

News Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and the leading platform for cloud and IoT operations. “The breadth and pace of open source innovation has made it the center of gravity in technology today, and the...

Canonical
13 April 2017


Udi Nachmany
5 April 2017

Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the...

Udi Nachmany
5 April 2017


Canonical
3 April 2017

OVH joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud Programme

News Canonical announcements

Canonical and OVH announced they are engaging as partners in public cloud, VPS, bare metal and private cloud. OVH is joining the ranks of other cloud providers included in Canonical’s official programme for distribution of Ubuntu guest images, Certified Public Cloud (CPC). OVH is one of the leading and fastest-growing...

Canonical
3 April 2017


Canonical
23 March 2017

Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric

News Canonical announcements

Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany, March 23, 2017 – Huawei and Canonical today announced they are expanding their cooperation in enterprise and telecom clouds to announce that they have completed the...

Canonical
23 March 2017


Canonical
14 March 2017

Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

Article Canonical announcements

  Canonical announced the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release almost 5 years ago, on April 26, 2012. As with all LTS releases, Canonical has provided ongoing security patches and bug fixes for a period of 5 years. The Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) period will end on Friday, April 28, 2017. Following the...

Canonical
14 March 2017


Alexander Gallagher
6 March 2017

Canonical at Google Next 2017

Article Cloud and server

The dramatic emergence of open source software, together with the SaaS deployment model and cloud computing, has greatly reduced software costs for enterprises, but that has also created new challenges. As many organizations have come to understand, Big Software—dynamic scale-out software architectures such as big data,...

Alexander Gallagher
6 March 2017


James Donner
21 December 2016

Cloud Chatter- December 2016

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to our final cloud news round-up for 2016. In this issue, you’ll find details of our upcoming OpenStack and Containers office hours sessions and you can take a look at our latest webinar exploring OpenStack clouds on hyperconverged architecture. Read how Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is our most secure distribution yet; and...

James Donner
21 December 2016


Canonical
21 December 2016

Canonical Livepatch Service update – December 2016

Article Cloud and server

The following kernel security vulnerabilities were addressed through live patches on Ubuntu – to ensure you have the fixes, either install at ubuntu.com/livepatch or update to newest kernel and reboot. Linux kernel vulnerability 7th December 2016 (LSN-0014-1) Details: A race condition in the af_packet implementation in...

Canonical
21 December 2016


Canonical
30 November 2016

Docker and Canonical partner on CS Docker Engine for Ubuntu users

News Canonical announcements

New commercial agreement provides integrated enterprise support and SLAs for CS Docker Engine SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, 30th November 2016 – Docker and Canonical today announced an integrated Commercially Supported (CS) Docker Engine offering on Ubuntu, providing Canonical customers with a single path for support of the...

Canonical
30 November 2016


Udi Nachmany
28 November 2016

Canonical and AWS partner to deliver world-class support in the cloud

Article Cloud and server

In today’s software world, support is many times an afterthought or an expensive contract used only to keep-up with the latest patches, updates, and versions. Hidden costs to upgrade software, including downtime, scheduling, and planning are also factors that need to be considered. Canonical does not believe the...

Udi Nachmany
28 November 2016


Canonical
16 November 2016

Microsoft loves Linux. SQL Server Public Preview available on Ubuntu

Article Canonical announcements

Microsoft has just announced its public preview of the next release of SQL Server, and Canonical is delighted to announce that this preview is available for Ubuntu. SQL Server on Ubuntu now provides freedom of choice for developers and organisations alike whether you use on premises or in the cloud. SQL Server enables...

Canonical
16 November 2016