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What’s confidential, generally available, and open source? It’s Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 on Microsoft Azure!

On behalf of all Canonical teams, I am happy to announce the general availability of Ubuntu 22.04 Confidential VMs (CVMs) on Microsoft Azure! They are part of the Microsoft Azure DCasv5/ECasv5 series that leverage the latest security extensions of the third generation of AMD CPUs, Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-

Open source in financial services – start with a strong foundation

Financial Institutions (FIs) need to respond with agility and business velocity to keep pace with changing economic conditions. Yet, emerging competition from fintechs and challenger banks and increasing customer expectations is making this task difficult, especially as regulatory and compliance requirements increase. Embracing the next p

Revisiting form elements in Vanilla Framework

Over the years, we’ve identified a number of areas for improvement when it comes to the basic building blocks of a form – inputs, buttons, etc: Long-standing complaints that inputs and buttons are too similar and therefore hard to distinguish “Noisiness” of long forms caused by the presence of borders around all sides of inputs

Canonical Kubernetes 1.26 is now generally available

Canonical Kubernetes 1.26 is now generally available for both distributions, Charmed Kubernetes and MicroK8s, following the release of upstream Kubernetes on the 8th of December. We consistently follow the upstream release cadence to provide our users and customers with the latest improvements and fixes, together with security maintenance

The State of IoT – October & November 2022

Welcome to the combined October & November edition of the monthly State of IoT series. These past couple of months were packed with news and announcements. Let’s dive straight in! Matter 1.0 is finally here Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Google, SmartThings, and the Connectivity Standards Alliance came together in 2019 to develop and promote an

.NET for Ubuntu hosts and containers is now available on Arm-based platforms

Canonical and Microsoft collaborate with Arm to enable .NET for Ubuntu hosts and containers on Arm Arm, Canonical and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver an improved experience and performance for .NET on Arm .NET 6 for Ubuntu 22.04 containers is now supported on Azure Kubernetes Service on Arm The ASP.NET, .NET SDK and .NET runtimes

Application migration: best practices for success

Large enterprises usually have more than 1,000 systems running. Even smaller organisations may have hundreds of applications in their public cloud spaces or on their servers. In this world of IT systems, application migrations are common for the following reasons: At some point, software reaches its end of life and is not supported anymor

Virgin Media O2 deploys Charmed OSM to accelerate network functions virtualisation for cloud workloads

By operating cloud workloads with Charmed OSM, VMO2 will benefit from increased agility and scalability, as well as an optimised migration to network functions virtualization (NFV). A new approach to service lifecycle management in telco The challenge of network hosting in telco clouds and the desire to shift service management to more au


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Canonical joins SOAFEE SIG

Canonical is delighted to announce that it is joining the Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge (SOAFEE) Special Interest Group to contribute towards a safe, secure and software-defined automotive future.  “As the demand for computing from car to cloud is rapidly growing, the automotive industry is looking towards standardisation t

High-performance computing (HPC) technologies: what does the future hold? [part 6]

his is a very exciting time for HPC, as we are seeing a lot of innovation in the space. Servers are taking on advanced capabilities in terms of compute and networking and we are seeing compatibility increase. Overall cluster deployment and usage is being driven by ease of use.

Join Canonical and the financial services open-source community at OSSF NY

OSFF is a global conference hosted by the Linux Foundation FINOS that brings together experts across financial services, technology, and open source to engage in stimulating and thought-provoking conversations about leveraging secure open source to solve financial services industry challenges. This event showcases recent developments and

Telco network healing and auto-scaling with Open Source MANO TWELVE

The second Open Source MANO (OSM) release with Long Term Support (LTS) has landed. Open Source MANO Release TWELVE offers two years of support with security patches. The release has outstanding features to offer to both VNF vendors and system integrators residing in the MANO (Management and Network Orchestration) ecosystem. ETSI OSM (Open

Kudos for Kudu Customization

Kinetic Kudu is out with another beautiful collection of community provided wallpapers. Check out the contest winners and more Kudu customization tips.

Need help choosing an embedded Linux distribution? Get guidance here

Enterprises are looking to capitalise on the new wave of small form-factor computing and navigate the shift to the edge. Device manufacturers across the world are racing to build embedded, connected devices that will deliver on the promise of the fourth industrial revolution.  Many of them are looking to explore data-driven value-chain op

Ubuntu Summit 2022 Reflections

Thank you for participating in the Ubuntu Summit! We successfully united the broader open source community to talk about their exciting projects and Ubuntu.

Open Source in HPC [part 5]

Introduction to open source HPC focused applications and components.


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