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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.


Canonical
11 August 2021

FIPS 140-2 certification for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS!

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Ubuntu, the world’s most popular operating system across private and public clouds has received the FIPS 140-2, Level 1 certification for its cryptographic modules in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, including OpenSSL 1.1.1. This certification is built on Canonical’s track record in designing Ubuntu for high security and regulated workloads. The FIPS 14 ...


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8 July 2021

Canonical recognized as a 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Winner

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LONDON — July 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publishers of Ubuntu, today announced it has been named a winner for a 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. Ca ...


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29 June 2021

Kubernetes & Cloud Native report 2021 by Canonical

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Industry global survey from Canonical: 85% of enterprises have yet to cross the chasm to full Kubernetes and Cloud Native adoption.Data from 1,200 respondents and insights from seven industry experts reveal rapid growth, some growing pains Read full report London, UK, June 29, 2021 – Despite high adoption rates of cloud native technologie ...


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23 June 2021

Canonical enables Ubuntu on SiFive’s HiFive RISC-V boards

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With Canonical announcing Ubuntu support for so much new hardware, the announcement of Ubuntu ported to a new architecture can go unnoticed. But today, we have a big one. Working  with the leading RISC-V core IP designer and development board manufacturer, SiFive, we are proud to announce the first Ubuntu release for two of the ...


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23 June 2021

Canonical launches Blender LTS support

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SMEs and studios can put the world’s most popular 3D creation software into production with Canonical enterprise-grade support. ...


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14 June 2021

Introducing Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud

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June 14th, 2021: Canonical and Google Cloud today announce Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud, a new Ubuntu offering available to all Google Cloud users. Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud allows instant access to security patching covering thousands of open source applications for up to 10 years and critical compliance features essential to running work ...


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8 June 2021

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology taps Canonical for cloud computing overhaul

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New OpenStack and Kubernetes deployments improve computing performance for researchers, ease management pains for IT staff SAUDI ARABIA, June 8, 2021 — Canonical, the publisher ofUbuntu, announced today that it is working with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a postgraduate university in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, on ...


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28 May 2021

How to run ECS Anywhere workloads using Ubuntu on any infrastructure

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Using Ubuntu for your ECS clusters on-prem or elsewhere will allow you to run your ECS Anywhere workloads with optimal performance everywhere you need it. ...


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25 May 2021

Ubuntu supports Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ampere A1 Compute

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Together with Oracle, Canonical announces an optimised Ubuntu image for the launch of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ampere A1 Compute. ...


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3 May 2021

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS transitions to Extended Security Maintenance (ESM)

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This article was updated in September 2021 to reflect the new lifecycle of 16.04. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ‘Xenial Xerus’ transitions into the extended security maintenance (ESM) support phase at the end of April 2021 from its standard, five-year maintenance window for Ubuntu long term support (LTS) releases. Xenial Xerus is still supported until ...


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27 April 2021

Easily deploy and manage Mattermost on Kubernetes with the new Juju charmed operator

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Introducing the Juju Charms Operator for Mattermost seamless application upgrades and supported features on Linux and Windows. We’re excited to announce our partnership with Canonical to build a Mattermost Operatorusing the Juju Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), making it easy to install, integrate and upgrade Mattermost. The Mattermost O ...


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22 April 2021

Ubuntu 21.04 is here

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Ubuntu 21.04 is here, with native Microsoft Active Directory integration, performance optimization and joint support for Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu. ...