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Omar Ali Amin
11 November 2021

You’ll float too… If you don’t listen to your IT

Article Cloud and server

Here’s yet another hint Pennywise was trying to signal – IT has a scary face that we should all dread! If you don’t know who Pennywise is, then you are missing out watching the horrifying clown from the horror movie series It – not IT (Eye-Tee). No wonder it has become the highest-grossing horror film

Omar Ali Amin
11 November 2021


robgibbon
10 November 2021

SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro: bringing it all back home

Article Cloud and server

Not going to lie, the Microsoft SQL Server is my all-time favourite Microsoft product. For a long time, SQL Server was only available for Windows, but not much is really sacred. So now Microsoft, in collaboration with Canonical, are distributing and supporting several flavours of SQL Server on Ubuntu Pro for Azure. I’m...

robgibbon
10 November 2021


Valentin Viennot
10 November 2021

Intel and Canonical to secure containers software supply chain

Article Ubuntu

Intel and Canonical collaborate to build and publish OpenVINO™ container images based on the Ubuntu ecosystem. This work aims to provide trusted, secure, and developer-friendly container images for AI/ML applications in many industries. The provenance challenge facing cloud software Today, cloud-native developers...

Valentin Viennot
10 November 2021


Canonical
9 November 2021

Canonical Transforms Linux on Mac

Article Canonical announcements

Developers can now launch Linux instances on Apple M1 with Multipass 1.8 November 9th London, UK: On the heels of Apple’s announcement of a new line of game-changing M1 MacBooks, Canonical is bringing fast and easy Linux to the M1 platform. Multipass, the quickest way to run Linux cross-platform, received an update last...

Canonical
9 November 2021


Hugo Huang
9 November 2021

CIS-Harden your Ubuntu in Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

CIS Benchmarks are best practices for the secure configuration of a target system. The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) is the authority backing CIS Benchmarks. Ubuntu Pro is entitled to be CIS compliant and packaged with CIS toolings from Canonical. Let’s SSH into your Ubuntu Pro virtual machine. If you...

Hugo Huang
9 November 2021


Massimiliano Gori
8 November 2021

History of Open Source Identity Management (part 1)

Article Security

First post on the history of the main Open Source Identity Management protocols and technologies. This post covers the origins, LDAP and Kerberos

Massimiliano Gori
8 November 2021


Vergil Yotov
5 November 2021

Five reasons to manage your IoT edge devices

Article Internet of Things

The Internet of Things adoption is growing faster than ever before. As connected devices become more affordable, they find their place in many aspects of our lives. Users worldwide can benefit from a large ecosystem of IoT solutions. However, this rapid growth comes at a cost. Different IoT edge devices have different...

Vergil Yotov
5 November 2021


Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021

Data centre networking: SDDC

Article Networking

To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components.

Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021


Omar Ali Amin
2 November 2021

Kubernetes Fully Managed: Overcoming CIOs challenges

Article Cloud and server

How can organisations use Kubernetes while cutting down operational costs and overcoming the biggest challenges facing CIOs when adopting the platform?

Omar Ali Amin
2 November 2021


Canonical
2 November 2021

Ubuntu optimised for Intel processors accelerates adoption of IoT innovations

Canonical News Ubuntu

2 November 2021: Canonical published the first Ubuntu images optimised for the next generation of Intel IoT platforms, which address the unique requirements of the intelligent edge across multiple industry verticals.  Both companies are dedicated to enabling on Ubuntu the Intel IoT platforms’ specific features such as...

Canonical
2 November 2021


Hugo Huang
1 November 2021

Securing the Open-Source supply chain with Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud

Article Cloud and server

It’s official: since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercrime has increased by 600%. Among these, ransomware attacks are estimated to cost $6 trillion in 2021 alone. And there were nearly 550,000 ransomware attacks per day in 2020. The question is: are your workloads secure enough? In this blog, we will discuss...

Hugo Huang
1 November 2021


Canonical
1 November 2021

Ubuntu Pro-based Microsoft SQL Server Instances available for Azure

Article Ubuntu

1st November 2021: Today, Canonical announced support with Microsoft for Microsoft SQL Server with Ubuntu Pro on Microsoft Azure. Canonical has worked with Microsoft to bring a highly performant and fully supported solution for SQL Server to market, based around the Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS operating system. Customers on...

Canonical
1 November 2021


Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021

OpenStack vs AWS: which one is better for you?

Article Cloud and server

OpenStack vs AWS is a discussion that almost every organisation must conduct when adopting a cloud strategy. This is because OpenStack and AWS are undoubtedly some of the most popular cloud technologies in both public and private cloud space. While AWS is the most popular commercial cloud platform, OpenStack remains its...

Tytus Kurek
29 October 2021


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
28 October 2021

Taking Ubuntu for a spin (literally)

Article Robotics

Want to learn what we do for the automotive industry? Learn more about how Ubuntu is powering it. The designers of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway never could have predicted that unmanned autonomous vehicles would someday race on their track – much less robots that can see the checkered flag while their ‘drivers’ kiss...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
28 October 2021