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GDC 2022: Cloud gaming powered by Anbox Cloud

At GDC 2022 Arm, Ampere Computing and Canonical will present a live talk accompanied by a cloud gaming demo built on top of Ampere Altra powered servers running Anbox Cloud providing a cloud gaming service visitors can try live in the Arm booth #S756 Anbox Cloud was built use case agnostic, but cloud gaming has

How we implemented an interactive Live Demo Box

The Vanilla squad recently spent a two week sprint prototyping an interactive live demo box. We were tasked with coming up with a proof of concept, to enable demoing of each variant of our examples dynamically. A few guest developers were able to joined us, which meant four of us were able to dedicate a

KDE snaps performance revving up

Speed, or rather, responsiveness is an essential part of the software usage experience. This applies to every technology and domain, snaps included. Indeed, when it comes to snaps, the equation is a bit more complicated and slightly less straightforward because snaps are packaged as compressed, standalone applications and wrapped in a num

A new look for the Circle of Friends

The Circle of Friends is getting an update! Discover the new Ubuntu logo and the journey behind it.

Cloud Adjacent Storage

What is cloud adjacent storage? Put simply, cloud adjacent storage is just a privately owned and operated storage system, within network reach of a cloud provider’s region, but without the pay-as-you-grow and access charges found in public clouds. Why is cloud adjacent storage a better choice than public cloud storage? Public clouds were

What are Linux containers?

This blog explains what are Linux containers, how they differ from application containers, and when should you use them.

Design and Web team summary – 11 March 2022

The Web and design team at Canonical run two-week iterations building and maintaining all of the Canonical websites and product web interfaces. Here are some of the highlights of our completed work from this iteration. Brand The Brand team develop our design strategy and create the look and feel for the company across many touch-points,

Deep work in interesting times

Prologue As programmers and tech writers, we are creators, and we are knowledge workers. We strive to do rare and valuable work, regardless of the circumstances, what Dartmouth professor Cal Newport calls deep work. Deep work is hard and difficult. At Canonical, we are specifically committed to doing things that are simultaneously hard an


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cPanel & WHM® expands collaboration with Ubuntu to bring full support for Ubuntu LTS in V102

40% of the 2021 Open Stack Survey respondents indicated Ubuntu as their primary OS. Houston, TX – February 2022 – cPanel® L.L.C., the Hosting Platform of Choice, a WebPros® portfolio company, is expanding its collaboration with Ubuntu to provide full support for Ubuntu LTS 20.04 with cPanel & WHM version 102.  In the winter of 2020, CentO

Enable FIPS on Google Cloud

Ubuntu Pro FIPS images are now available in Google Cloud. Find out more about why you need a FIPS-compliant environment and how you can be FIPS compliant in Google Cloud.

The State of IoT – February 2022

One could aptly name this February State of IoT as the State of Silicon. With the much-anticipated partnership between ARM and NVIDIA halting to a grind, Intel grabbed this month’s headlines by investing in the open RISC-V architecture and announcing a new fund promoting disruptive startups. Let’s dive straight in! Ferrari partners with Q

Ubuntu Pro 20.04 FIPS is now available for AWS, Azure and GCP

The Ubuntu Pro FIPS profile is now available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

OpenStack is dead? The numbers speak for themselves.

Austin, Texas – 3rd of March 2022 – OpenStack is dead! A masked man in a black cloak with “public clouds”, “containers” and ”serverless” inscriptions shot OpenStack straight in the heart. OpenStack fell to the ground and with the last moment of strength exclaimed: “Long live open infrastructure”! That could be a headline of a

Advantech and Canonical Collaborate on Ubuntu Pre-Loaded Embedded Solutions for Edge Computing Applications

March 2nd, 2022 — Advantech, a leading provider of embedded IoT solutions, has collaborated with Canonical in the provision of Ubuntu pre-loaded and certified embedded boards and systems for diverse edge computing applications. By certifying Advantech products, Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, guarantees up to 10 years of Linux securit

Pacific Textiles drives digital transformation with new infrastructure for legacy and cloud-native applications

March 1st, 2022 — Canonical announces that Pacific Textiles chose Canonical Charmed OpenStack for its infrastructure upgrade. The new private cloud environment allows keeping the legacy workloads running continuously and launching new cloud-native services simultaneously. The professional services team from Canonical helped Pacific Textil

Enabling simple, cost-effective Kubernetes on IBM Z with MicroK8s

Containerisation has transformed the enterprise IT landscape, driving faster, more secure, and more predictable software delivery than ever before. Thanks to technologies like Docker, building containerised applications is easy, and many businesses are working with hundreds or even thousands of containers. To effectively deploy and manage


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