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Sep 29, 2023   |  By Kris Sharma
Digital innovation is transforming finance. Advances in financial technology such as mobile money, peer-to-peer (P2P) or marketplace lending, robo advice, and insurance technology (InsurTech) are reshaping many areas – from payments to wealth management. Over the past decade, fintechs have already driven enhanced access to financial services for retail users. Technology advances in connectivity, data processing, and storage have contributed to the current wave of technology-based finance.
Sep 26, 2023   |  By Canonical
London, United Kingdom, 26 September 2023. Canonical announced today that Charmed MLFlow, Canonical’s distribution of the popular machine learning platform, is now generally available. Charmed MLFlow is part of Canonical’s growing MLOps portfolio. Ideal for model registry and experiment tracking, Charmed MLFlow is integrated with other AI and big data tools such as Apache Spark and Kubeflow. The solution runs on any infrastructure, from workstations to public and private clouds.
Sep 18, 2023   |  By Bertrand Boisseau
Automotive software developers often face challenges when they want to try out their software on target hardware. Which can cause issues since multiple teams have to share limited hardware resources and prototype benches. With the microchip shortage, it’s become even more difficult to get hardware benches for testing and debugging software.
Sep 14, 2023   |  By Serdar Vural
Telco edge clouds are among the most popular and promising technologies with great potential to deliver performance improvements. An edge cloud is an infrastructure to run software located close to devices and end-users.
Sep 13, 2023   |  By Rajan Patel
Every public cloud provider has a templating mechanism to deploy fully configured applications. For anyone interested in a vendor-neutral approach that works on major public clouds, cloud-init offers a good solution. Cloud-init makes your work re-usable regardless of the clouds you deploy to. It’s an open source configuration automation solution for Linux, which performs steps at various stages of a single machine’s boot up.
Sep 12, 2023   |  By Aaron Whitehouse
Since we launched Ubuntu Pro’s Expanded Security Maintenance for additional packages, and we now integrate more closely with public cloud update management tools, more people have been asking us about the Ubuntu archive and how this is divided and security patched. In this blog we will therefore explain Ubuntu releases, how the Ubuntu archive is divided into different sections and how we deliver Ubuntu updates.
Sep 12, 2023   |  By Canonical
Austin, TX, 12 September 2023: Canonical is thrilled to announce the listing of Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Sep 8, 2023   |  By Felipe Vanni
Service providers need cloud infrastructure everywhere, from modern 5G and 6G network functions running in the network core to sophisticated AI/ML jobs running on the edge. Given the sensitivity of those workloads to any interruptions, outages or performance degradations, the cloud infrastructure used by telecommunication companies needs to be fast, robust and ultra stable.
Sep 7, 2023   |  By ijlal-loutfi
Full disk encryption, FDE, has long been an integral part of Ubuntu’s security strategy. Its mission is straightforward: to mitigate the risks of data breaches due to device loss and unauthorised access, by encrypting data while stored on the computer’s hard drive or storage device. For 15 years, Ubuntu’s approach to full disk encryption relied on passphrases for authenticating users.
Sep 6, 2023   |  By Aaron Prisk
Few creatures from mythology have captured the imagination of mankind quite like the legendary Minotaur. A half-man, half-bull behemoth that is said to guard the halls of the impenetrable labyrinth of Crete. The ancient sagas stated that only the bravest of warriors would be able to match its incredible strength and escape its mystifying maze.
Sep 26, 2023   |  By Canonical
Install MLflow quickly on Ubuntu using our distribution, Charmed MLFlow. You can integrate it with different tools, so you can run it on your workstation with Jupyter Notebook or at scale with Charmed Kubeflow. Charmed MLFlow is a fully open source distribution of the upstream project, that benefits from security patching, tool integration and automated lifecycle management.
Sep 25, 2023   |  By Canonical
Learn how to elevate the security of your Ubuntu servers by creating a CIS-hardened Ubuntu Pro AMI using only the AWS web console. Join Canonical Public Cloud Alliance Director Carlos Bravo in this step-by-step tutorial as he walks through the hardening process utilizing the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG) tool to ensure your system's security aligns with industry standards including CIS and DISA-STIG.
Sep 21, 2023   |  By Canonical
Aaron Whitehouse, Senior Director of Public Cloud Enablement at Canonical, explains why you need to be thinking about open source dependencies in your software pipelines. He covers three main areas of software dependency management: ESM is part of Canonical's Ubuntu Pro offering and gives developers access to approximately 30,000 packages that they can build on, confident in the knowledge that Canonical will patch high and critical vulnerabilities for up to 10 years while preserving API stability -- regardless of the upstream project's support lifecycle.
Sep 20, 2023   |  By Canonical
Schools and universities need affordable and secure learning tools to equip their students. IT managers at these institutions also want peace of mind: they need systems that are easy to manage and built with industry-leading security and privacy measures.
Sep 7, 2023   |  By Canonical
In this tutorial, Ubuntu Server engineer Andreas Hasenack demonstrates how to leverage PGP with your hardware security key to create an additional layer of security for OpenSSH access.
Sep 6, 2023   |  By Canonical
Just as the prophecy foretold, the Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur has been revealed! Few creatures from mythology have captured the imagination of mankind quite like the legendary Minotaur. The word Mantic is used to describe one’s ability to prophesy or reach into the future. Our lead designer, Marcus Haslam, pulled inspiration from the ancient past when creating our iconic Minotaur Mascot and new official wallpapers.
Sep 5, 2023   |  By Canonical
MLFlow is an open source platform used for managing machine learning workflows. It is a crucial component of the open source MLOps ecosystem, having passed 10 million monthly downloads at the end of 2022. It has four main components that ensure experiment tracking, model registry, model deployment and code packaging. Join our webinar to learn more about MLFlow During this webinar, Andreea Munteanu will discuss MLFlow and Charmed MLFlow, Canonical’s distribution of the open source platform.
Aug 24, 2023   |  By Canonical
Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) go hand in hand. Used for tasks like trend prediction, process automation and research, these two technologies can help organisations solve some of the toughest problems. However, the growing volume of data and increasing diversity of data sources make it difficult to use data and AI effectively and at scale.
Aug 10, 2023   |  By Canonical
Learn how to maximize developer productivity by leveraging large language models for rapid code refactoring. Large language models like ChatGPT have tremendous potential to automate repetitive coding tasks and boost team effectiveness. In this MAAS Show And Tell, Peter Makowski, Senior Web Engineer at Canonical, shares insights and a real-world example of using LLM for a successful large-scale migration of hundreds of tests from enzyme to @testing-library/react.
Aug 8, 2023   |  By Canonical
In this video you will learn how to Install OpenStack in five simple steps. Looking for an easy OpenStack installation tutorial for beginners? Break the ice with OpenStack today by watching this video.
Apr 1, 2020   |  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.
Apr 1, 2020   |  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.
Mar 1, 2020   |  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.
Mar 1, 2020   |  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.
Feb 1, 2020   |  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.

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.

We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

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.

Drive down infrastructure cost, accelerate your applications.