Blog posts written by Hugo Huang

Hugo Huang
27 March 2025

Ubuntu Confidential VMs Now Available on Google Cloud A3 with NVIDIA H100 GPUs

Article AI

Organizations are racing to harness the transformative power of AI, but sensitive data privacy and model security remain critical roadblocks. What if you could unlock the full potential of AI without compromising your most valuable assets? Canonical is thrilled to announce the availability of Ubuntu Confidential VMs on...

Hugo Huang
27 March 2025

Hugo Huang
2 October 2024

Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel® TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

Article Ubuntu

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...

Hugo Huang
2 October 2024

Hugo Huang
13 May 2024

Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS Lands on Google Cloud: Power Up Your Cloud Experience

Ubuntu Pro Cloud and server

Exciting news for cloud enthusiasts and developers! Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) is now available on Google Cloud, bringing a robust and secure platform for your cloud workloads. This latest Long Term Support release from Canonical offers a wealth of features and enhancements, making it the perfect choice for...

Hugo Huang
13 May 2024

Hugo Huang
9 April 2024

Canonical Delivers Secure, Compliant Cloud Solutions for Google Distributed Cloud

Article Canonical announcements

Today, Canonical is thrilled to announce our expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to provide Ubuntu images for Google Distributed Cloud. This partnership empowers Google Distributed Cloud customers with security-focused Ubuntu images, ensuring they meet the most stringent compliance standards. Since 2021, Google...

Hugo Huang
9 April 2024

Hugo Huang
27 March 2024

Canonical at Google Next – What you need to know

Article Cloud and server

Learn how Canonical and Google Cloud are collaborating to secure and scale solutions for cloud computing at Google Next 2024.

Hugo Huang
27 March 2024

Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers

Article Cloud and server

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) traces its roots back to Google’s development of Borg in 2004, a Google internal system managing clusters and applications. In 2014, Google introduced Kubernetes, an open-source platform based on Borg’s principles, gaining rapid popularity for automating containerized application...

Hugo Huang
5 December 2023

Hugo Huang
29 November 2023

Generative AI explained

Article AI

When OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, no one could have anticipated that the following 6 months would usher in a dizzying transformation for human society with the arrival of a new generation of artificial intelligence. Since the emergence of deep learning in the early 2010s, artificial intelligence has...

Hugo Huang
29 November 2023

Hugo Huang
20 September 2023

Start your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel® TDX on Google Cloud

Article Canonical announcements

Confidential computing directly addresses the question of trust between cloud providers and their customers, with guarantees of data security for guest machines enforced by the underlying hardware of the cloud. According to the Confidential Computing Consortium, confidential computing is the protection of data in use by...

Hugo Huang
20 September 2023

Hugo Huang
21 July 2023

Start your SEV VMs on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

SEV is a new security feature that is available on AMD’s EPYC processors. It stands for Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Pages. SEV provides a new level of protection for firmware by encrypting the memory pages that contain the firmware code. This makes it much more difficult for attackers to gain access to...

Hugo Huang
21 July 2023

Hugo Huang
14 July 2023

Ubuntu Pro is now available on Arm VMs on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

We are happy to announce that Ubuntu Pro is now available on Arm series Virtual Machines on Google Cloud. You can now launch or upgrade Ubuntu Arm instances to Ubuntu Pro on Google Compute Engine. Arm series Virtual Machines on Google Cloud Renowned for their exceptional performance per watt efficiency, Arm-based chips...

Hugo Huang
14 July 2023

Hugo Huang
26 May 2023

Time to prepare for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS end of standard support on 31 May 2023 – Options for Google Cloud users

Article Cloud and server

In accordance with the information shared in our latest blog post, it is important to note that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, codenamed ‘Bionic Beaver,’ is approaching the end of its standard five-year maintenance period on 31 May 2023. Consequently, unless you hold an Ubuntu Pro subscription, updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers...

Hugo Huang
26 May 2023

Hugo Huang
9 April 2023

Four Challenges for ML data pipeline

Article AI

Data pipelines are the backbone of Machine Learning projects. They are responsible for collecting, storing, and processing the data that is used to train and deploy machine learning models. Without a data pipeline, it would be very difficult to manage the large amounts of data that are required for machine learning...

Hugo Huang
9 April 2023

Hugo Huang
1 March 2023

Setup your own VPN server

Article Cloud and server

Why do we need a VPN server? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) server is a network server that allows users to create a secure and encrypted connection to another network over the internet. Here are some reasons why we need a VPN server: Security: VPNs provide a secure way to access the internet, protecting sensitive

Hugo Huang
1 March 2023

Hugo Huang
26 February 2023

Rethink your Cloud strategy in 2023

Article Cloud and server

Gartner forecasts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow 20.7% from $490.3 billion in 2022 to $591.8 billion in 2023. By 2026, the Public Cloud market will double its size today to $1 trillion, also predicted by Gartner. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all maintained double-digit...

Hugo Huang
26 February 2023