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"Ubuntu Advantage for infrastructure"

Lech Sandecki
23 October 2024

6 facts for CentOS users who are holding on

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Find six useful facts to get started! ...

Lech Sandecki
11 November 2020

Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare

Apps Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus will enter the extended security maintenance (ESM) period in April 2021. This article explains the ESM period and provides a guide for six key considerations when planning a migration path from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Contact us with your ESM questions What is ESM? Every Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) release ...

Vineetha Kamath
9 April 2020

CIS hardened Ubuntu: cyber attack and malware prevention for mission-critical systems

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a nonprofit organisation that uses a community-driven process to release benchmarks to safeguard enterprises against cyber attacks. It is one of the most recognised industry standards that provides comprehensive secure configuration and configuration hardening checklists in a computing environment ...

Lech Sandecki
1 April 2020

FIPS 140-2: Stay compliant and secure with Canonical

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

FIPS 140-2 is a set of publicly announced cryptographic standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is an essential part of FEDRamp requirements for many governmental agencies in the US and Canada, as well as their business partners from all around the world. Furthermore, as a well established and verifie ...

Canonical
1 April 2020

Canonical announces Managed Apps to simplify enterprise cloud operations

DevOps Ubuntu tech blog

1st April 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces Managed Apps – enabling enterprises to have their apps deployed and operated by Canonical as a fully managed service. At launch, Canonical will cover ten widely used cloud-native database and LMA (logging, monitoring and alerting) apps on multi-cloud Kubernetes but also o ...

Alex Cattle
17 March 2020

SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250 companies, and 6,000 employees. To increase time to market and meet heavy client requirements, SBI BITs was looking for alternative solutions beyond bare metal servers and decided upon ...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS (infrastructure as a service) ...

Guest
18 September 2019

Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest blog by Kara Todd, Director, Linux, IBM Z and LinuxONE Enterprises today need a highly secure, and flexible system to support their initiatives, and for that system to grow and evolve for tomorrow. The latest LinuxONE system was designed to support mission-critical initiatives and allow enterprises to be innovative as they ...

Stephan Fabel
25 July 2019

The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Recently, I gave a keynote at the Cloud Native / OpenStack Days in Tokyo titled “the ten new rules of open source infrastructure”. It was well received and folks pointed out on Twitter that they would like to see more detail around those ten rules. Others seemed to benefit from clarifying commentary. I’ve attempted to ...

Canonical
24 July 2019

BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Today, Canonical announces its Charmed OpenStack on Ubuntu has been selected by BT as a key component of its next generation 5G Core. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will provide the open source virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) as part of BT’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) program, and the transition to a cloud-based Cor ...

Canonical
7 May 2019

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has transitioned to ESM support

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) is now available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to provide ongoing security patches for high and critical CVEs for UA Infrastructure customers. ...

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