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By Rhys Knipe
The launch of Ubuntu in 2004 was a step-change for everyday users and developers everywhere. Nicknamed “Ubuntu Linux” in its early days, to differentiate it from its various cousins in the Linux world, it has since lost the need for its surname and grown to become a powerful force. Besides being used by millions of home users, Ubuntu is widely used in the development and business world. As developers have become a driving force of innovation, so has Ubuntu.
20 years of partnership: how our partners help us take Ubuntu across industries, markets and devices
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By Rhys Knipe
As we celebrate 20 years of Ubuntu, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the value of partnership. The idea that software should be open source and accessible to all gave birth to a vibrant community of users and a partner ecosystem who help us take Ubuntu across industries. So who do we work with? We are fortunate to count over 100 partners, all of whom have a different relationship with Ubuntu.
In pursuit of open source sustainability, Canonical is a committed contributor to the development of Valkey. Following our mission to amplify the impact of open source and enable a broad diversity of open source communities to collaborate under the Ubuntu umbrella, we’re pleased to announce that Valkey is now included in Ubuntu. Valkey is included in Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Nombat) and will be included in future releases.
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By Canonical
Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download. Ubuntu 24.10 delivers the latest kernel, toolchains and GNOME 47 desktop environment alongside significant improvements to software security.
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By Giulia Lanzafame
A vector database is a data storage system that organises information in the form of vectors, which are mathematical representations. These databases are designed to store, index, and query vector embeddings or numerical representations of unstructured data, including text documents, multimedia content, audio, geospatial coordinates, tables, and graphs.
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By Hugo Huang
In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data, and could pose a significant security risk, if not managed properly. But there’s a new way to protect your data: confidential computing.
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By Jehudi
Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their confidential virtual machines (VMs) with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, powered by Ubuntu. This offering combines the hardware-based protection of AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA’s latest GPU technology to enable secure and high-performance AI workloads in the cloud. Combining these technologies allows sensitive sectors to unlock AI adoption through addressing previous concerns of critical data privacy.
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By Stephanie Domas
The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming. I’ve talked about this piece of upcoming regulation in some depth before, having covered its background and stipulations in previous pieces on our website and for the Forbes Technology Council, and explored what it means for the businesses who consume open source in later articles (you can also read a version of this blog on Forbes).
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By Cedric Gegout
Cédric Gégout (VP of Product at Canonical) reflects on a recent research report that Canonical published in collaboration with Omdia. The report uncovered that despite the lack of widespread 5G standalone infrastructure, enterprises, industrial actors and service providers are preparing for 5G edge computing to produce returns within two years.
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By Gokhan Cetinkaya
AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the most remote locations. But to support these AI workloads running virtually everywhere, companies need edge infrastructure that’s fast, secure and highly scalable.
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By Canonical
Software supply chain knowledge is crucial for cybersecurity. It's essential to understand not only what's running but also its provenance and reliability. In episode two of our 3-part Month podcast series, Eduardo Barretto and Luci Stanescu join Alex Murray to discuss some of the best cybersecurity practices for everyone.
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By Canonical
What is the Zero Trust model in Cybersecurity? Watch the video as Ijlal Loutfi, Product Manager at Canonical, explains what Zero Trust is and why confidential computing is essential to safeguard systems against cyber attacks and vulnerabilities. Ijlal also discusses the technology that allows AI workloads to run in a confidential way. Stay tuned to our social media pages as we share educational materials to help your organizations stay secure this Month.
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By Canonical
Developing a system based on Automotive Android OS (AAOS) comes with challenges like hardware dependencies, logistical delays and the need for vehicle and OEM specific customisation. Join us for an exclusive webinar where we explore how Anbox Cloud is solving these challenges and transforming the world of Android Automotive development. Designed to streamline and enhance the development process, Anbox Cloud enables developers to efficiently deploy, test, and scale Android apps across various configurations, eliminating the traditional hardware dependencies that slow down the development process.
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By Canonical
Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed, is now available to download and install. “Oracular Oriole sets a new pace for delivering the latest upstream kernel and toolchains. Experimental new security features demonstrate our commitment to continually elevate the Linux desktop experience in conversation with the community for the next 20 years and beyond.” Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical. Soar into the future of open source with.
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By Canonical
What is SysOps and what role do systems management tools play in SysOps responsibilities? Canonical’s Rajan Patel explains the concept and dives into the key features Canonical’s systems management tool delivers to help teams take control of their IT infrastructure.
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By Canonical
In this video, the Canonical team reflects on 20 years of Ubuntu. Canonical attracts a diverse team of experts united by one mission: to amplify the impact of open source. Many of the original contributors and team members behind Ubuntu are still around, including our Founder and CEO. So what was it that attracted them to get involved in a project like Ubuntu?
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By Canonical
Today, compliance is more important than ever before. As part of our #CybersecurityAwareness month series, we’re sharing essential insights on security compliance. Watch as Cédric Gégout, VP of Product Management at Canonical, breaks down the key aspects of the Cybersecurity Resilience Act (CRA), a new regulation set to take effect in 2027. In the video, you’ll learn what CRA is, how it classifies products, and what it means for your organization.
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By Canonical
Cybersecurity is an ongoing challenge for many enterprises, and safeguarding systems against evolving threats requires proactive, diligent security assessments and monitoring. Security and compliance is a challenge for organizations, with research showing that 84% of codebase contains at least one vulnerability and requires about 100 days on average to apply those fixes. In this video, Cédric Gégout, VP Product Management at Canonical, dives into the complexities of securing open source systems and company infrastructures, sharing insights from Canonical’s 20+ years of experience.
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By Canonical
In this video, we show you how to launch the latest Ubuntu LTS #NobleNumbat - from the Azure portal. Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro 24.04 can be launched as a virtual machine today.
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By Canonical
Introducing Charmed OpenSearch – an enterprise solution for OpenSearch with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that developers use to build solutions for search, observability, security analytics, generative AI projects, and more. Charmed OpenSearch builds on this foundation with additional enterprise-grade capabilities that can help you spend less time on operational tasks and more time on high-value data and analytics projects.
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By Canonical
From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises alike, organisations are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make the best, fastest, most informed decisions to overcome their biggest business challenges. But with AI/ML complexity spanning infrastructure, operations, resources, modelling and compliance and security, while constantly innovating, many organizations are left unsure how to capture their data and get started on delivering AI technologies and methodologies.
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By Canonical
Traditional development methods do not scale into the IoT sphere. Strong inter-dependencies and blurred boundaries among components in the edge device stack result in fragmentation, slow updates, security issues, increased cost, and reduced reliability of platforms. This reality places a major strain on IoT players who need to contend with varying cycles and priorities in the development stack, limiting their flexibility to innovate and introduce changes into their products, both on the hardware and software sides.
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By Canonical
Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud... the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer between different clouds.
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By Canonical
Container technology has brought about a step-change in virtualisation technology. Organisations implementing containers see considerable opportunities to improve agility, efficiency, speed, and manageability within their IT environments. Containers promise to improve datacenter efficiency and performance without having to make additional investments in hardware or infrastructure. Traditional hypervisors provide the most common form of virtualisation, and virtual machines running on such hypervisors are pervasive in nearly every datacenter.
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By Canonical
Big Software, IoT and Big Data are changing how organisations are architecting, deploying, and managing their infrastructure. Traditional models are being challenged and replaced by software solutions that are deployed across many environments and many servers. However, no matter what infrastructure you have, there are bare metal servers under it, somewhere.
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Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.
Products:
- Ubuntu: The new standard secure enterprise Linux for servers, desktops, cloud, developers and things.
- Landscape: Updates, package management, repositories, security, and regulatory compliance for Ubuntu.
- MAAS: Dynamic server provisioning and IPAM gives you on-demand bare metal, a physical cloud.
- LXD: The pure-container hypervisor. Run legacy apps in secure containers for speed and density.
- Juju: Model-driven cloud-native apps on public and private infrastructure and CAAS.
- Snapcraft: The app store with secure packages and ultra-reliable updates for multiple Linux distros.
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