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Ishani Ghoshal
27 March 2025

Open source enterprise application security remains a challenge despite greater patching efforts, IDC research reveals

Article Ubuntu

The latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC) 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...

Ishani Ghoshal
27 March 2025


Canonical
26 March 2025

70% of IT teams spend more than 6 hours per week on security patching – new IDC research

Article Canonical announcements

Open source software is a popular tool for businesses for many reasons, but this adoption has introduced new challenges in maintaining their open source software supply chain. 57% of organizations source their packages from upstream open source repositories, and 51% from ecosystem packages like pip or npm. The research...

Canonical
26 March 2025


Canonical
25 March 2025

Rivos and Canonical partner to deliver scalable RISC-V solutions in Data Centers and enable an enterprise-grade Ubuntu experience across Rivos platforms 

Article Canonical announcements

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...

Canonical
25 March 2025


Stephanie Domas
24 March 2025

What is Application Security (AppSec)?

Article Hardening

Application security (or AppSec, for short) 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...

Stephanie Domas
24 March 2025


Andreea Munteanu
20 March 2025

Accelerating AI with open source machine learning infrastructure

Article AI

The landscape of artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving, demanding robust and scalable infrastructure. To meet these challenges, we’ve developed a comprehensive reference architecture (RA) that leverages the power of open-source tools and cutting-edge hardware. This architecture, built on Canonical’s MicroK8s and...

Andreea Munteanu
20 March 2025


Henry Coggill
20 March 2025

Hardening automation for CIS benchmarks now available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Article Hardening

We’re pleased to release Ubuntu Security Guide profiles for CIS benchmarks.

Henry Coggill
20 March 2025


Andreea Munteanu
19 March 2025

Building optimized LLM chatbots with Canonical and NVIDIA

Downloads AI

The landscape of generative AI is rapidly evolving, and building robust, scalable large language model (LLM) 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...

Andreea Munteanu
19 March 2025


Andreea Munteanu
19 March 2025

Unlocking Edge AI: a collaborative reference architecture with NVIDIA

Partners AI

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...

Andreea Munteanu
19 March 2025


Canonical
18 March 2025

Ubuntu now officially supports NVIDIA Jetson: powering the future of AI at the edge

Article AI

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...

Canonical
18 March 2025


Henry Coggill
14 March 2025

What is System Hardening? Essential Checklists from OS to Applications

Article CIS Benchmarks

Hardening a system aims to decrease its exposure to make it difficult to hack, and to lessen the potential collateral damage in the event of a compromise.

Henry Coggill
14 March 2025


jdkandersson
13 March 2025

Effortless observability for Django applications

Article Ubuntu

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...

jdkandersson
13 March 2025


Aaron Prisk
12 March 2025

Among the waves: Plucky Puffin

Article Desktop

Not to be confused with the titular Linux mascot and seabird cousin, the penguin, puffins are another distinctively colorful and whimsical nautical avian. Over the centuries, these beaky birds have been given numerous nicknames and monikers like the “sea parrot” and the harlequinesque appearance of their facial feathers...

Aaron Prisk
12 March 2025


Felipe Vanni
11 March 2025

Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2025

Partners AI

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu and the trusted source for open source software, is thrilled to announce its presence at NVIDIA GTC again this year. Join us in San Jose from March 18th to the 21st and explore what’s next in AI and accelerated computing. Register for NVIDIA GTC 2025 Unlock AI potential: innovate on

Felipe Vanni
11 March 2025


Andreea Munteanu
11 March 2025

How to deploy Kubeflow on Azure

Article AI

Kubeflow is a cloud-native, open source machine learning operations (MLOps) platform designed for developing and deploying ML models on Kubernetes. Kubeflow helps data scientists and machine learning engineers run the entire ML lifecycle within one tool. Charmed Kubeflow is Canonical’s official distribution of Kubeflow....

Andreea Munteanu
11 March 2025