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31.03.2025 17:50 New IDC study, co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud, reveals the challenges and opportunities for organizations securing their software supply chains. Today, Canonical and Google Cloud released findings from a joint research project conducted by the International Data Corporation that sheds light on the critical challenges organizations face in securing their software supply chains.

31.03.2025 17:50 To start securely and efficiently, Linux systems follow a carefully orchestrated sequence of steps to initialize firmware and manage services. Applying security patches to the software responsible for some of these early steps of Linux startup often requires a full system reboot. Frequent reboots driven by unplanned critical patching is disruptive and man-power intensive, especially

28.03.2025 23:00 It’s hard to believe that the first KubeCon took place nearly 10 years ago. Back then, Kubernetes was still in its early days, and the world was only just beginning to understand the power of container orchestration. Fast-forward to today, and Kubernetes is a fundamental part of cloud-native development, taught in universities as a key

28.03.2025 23:00 Welcome to the first quarterly roundup on the State of Silicon and Devices by Canonical. Q1 has seen lots of announcements in the areas of Edge AI and cybersecurity. Companies across the semiconductor and software ecosystem are pushing toward more powerful, energy-efficient AI models at the edge, while simultaneously strengthening their security posture to meet

28.03.2025 01:00 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 Google Cloud’s accelerator-optimized A3 machine series, featuring

27.03.2025 18:01 The latest report from the International Data Corporation co-sponsored by Canonical and Google Cloud indicates that 36% of organizations adopt open source to improve development velocity, and 7 in 10 organizations see open source as extremely important to run mission critical workloads. However as open source adoption grows, organizations face increasing difficulty in securing

26.03.2025 11:52 9 out of 10 would prefer to source dependencies from OS packages. Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for a variety of reasons: nearly half of organizations opt for open source software to reduce costs, while others are using it to increase development speed , according to the report.  However, this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. Fifty-seven percent of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research shows that 9 out of 10 organizations would prefer to source packages from their OS, but only 44% currently do.

25.03.2025 19:20 Rivos Inc. brings scalable, high-performance AI accelerating solutions to the Data Center, helping to turn the benefits of both AI and Data Analytics into a reality. Rivos is  working with Canonical to deliver the widely utilized Ubuntu OS on top of the Data Center-class integrated RISC-V CPU and innovative GPGPU solution from Rivos.  This blog

24.03.2025 21:00 Application security is a broad term that refers to all of the tools, actions, and processes that an organization uses to protect its applications against vulnerabilities across the entirety of its life cycle. Application security has one objective: to find weaknesses in your applications and systems that could be abused by malicious actors to gain unauthorized access, misuse the application, or make harmful modifications, and fix them before they become a problem

21.03.2025 17:40 We’re pleased to release Ubuntu Security Guide profiles for CIS benchmarks.

21.03.2025 00:21 The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture that leverages the power of open-source tools and cutting-edge hardware. This architecture, built on Canonical’s MicroK8s and Charmed Kubeflow, running on Dell PowerEdge R7525 servers, and accelerated by NVIDIA NIM microservices,

20.03.2025 01:41 The landscape of generative AI is rapidly evolving, and building robust, scalable large language model applications is becoming a critical need for many organizations. Canonical, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is excited to introduce a reference architecture designed to streamline and optimize the creation of powerful LLM chatbots. This solution leverages the latest NVIDIA AI

19.03.2025 18:23 The world of edge AI is rapidly transforming how devices and data centers work together. Imagine healthcare tools powered by AI, or self-driving vehicles making real-time decisions. These advancements rely on bringing AI directly to edge devices. However, building a robust architecture for diverse edge environments presents significant hurdles. This blog introduces our new reference

19.03.2025 03:10 Canonical announces the General Availability of Ubuntu for the NVIDIA® Jetson Orin™ for edge AI and robotics, bringing optimized performance, out-of-the-box compatibility, and an easy pathway to high-performance AI solutions for AI developers everywhere. Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced official support for the NVIDIA Jetson platform, marking a significant milestone in its collaboration with

13.03.2025 18:00 Observability is critical for web operations to ensure that the application is working as expected and to identify any potential issues. However, setting up observability has traditionally been challenging because it can take hours to set up all the infrastructure, instrument your code and enable observability in production. But now there is a better way