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Canonical provides the ideal platform for Microsoft Azure IoT Operations

London, 19 November 2024. Canonical has collaborated with Microsoft as an early adopter partner and tested Microsoft Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu Core and Kubernetes, which is notable as Microsoft today released Azure IoT Operations, a unified data plane providing significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry proce

Getting started with Azure IoT Operations on Ubuntu

Introduction With the recent announcement of the release of Azure IoT Operations, Microsoft has provided its customers with a unified data plane offering significant improvements in node data capture, edge-based telemetry processing, and cloud-ingress.  Combining Azure IoT Operations with Ubuntu provides the perfect pairing to build secur

Needrestart local privilege escalation vulnerability fixes available

Qualys discovered vulnerabilities which allow a local attacker to gain root privileges in the needrestart package (CVE-2024-48990, CVE-2024-48991, CVE-2024-48992, and CVE-2024-11003) and a related issue in libmodule-scandeps-perl (CVE-2024-10224). The vulnerabilities affect Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. Canonical’s securit

Meet the Canonical Ceph team at Cephalocon 2024

Date: December 4-5th, 2024 Location: Geneva, Switzerland In just a few weeks, Cephalocon will be held at CERN in Geneva. After last year’s successful Cephalocon in Amsterdam, which was the first live event held since the pandemic, it is great to return to regular community gatherings . Canonical Ubuntu is proud to be sponsoring the

The transition to in-house software development in the automotive industry

Who will win the race to the perfect SDV? The automotive industry is experiencing a major transformation, driven by the integration of advanced software systems into vehicles. As cars become smarter and more connected, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are moving away from depending on third-party software suppliers and are looking

Profile-guided optimization: A case study

Software developers spend a huge amount of effort working on optimization – extracting more speed and better performance from their algorithms and programs. This work usually involves a lot of time-consuming manual investigation, making automatic performance optimization a hot topic in the world of software development. Profile-guided opt

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release

Canonical announces the first MicroCloud LTS release. MicroCloud 2.1.0 LTS features support for single-node deployments, improved security posture, and more flexibility during the initialization process.

Join Canonical in Paris at Dell Technologies Forum

Canonical is thrilled to be joining forces with Dell Technologies at the upcoming Dell Technologies Forum – Paris, taking place on 19 November. This premier event brings together industry leaders and technology enthusiasts to explore the latest advancements and solutions shaping the digital landscape. Register to Dell Technologies Forum –


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Bringing automation to open source 5G software at Ubuntu Summit 2024

In today’s massive private mobile network (PMN) market, one of the most common approaches to PMN software and infrastructure are proprietary private business solutions. However, as our recent demonstrations at the October 2024 Ubuntu Summit in the Hague showed, open source software with enterprise-grade support is a cost-effective alterna

Life at Canonical: Freyja Cooper’s perspective as a new joiner in Communications

Canonical has developed a unique onboarding process that enables new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment. In this series, we interview team members who joined the company within the last year to ask them about their experience so far. In an earlier article, we heard from Amy Song, a

Designing Canonical’s Figma libraries for performance and structure

How Canonical’s Design team rebuilt their Figma libraries, with practical guidelines on structure, performance, and maintenance processes.

Charmed MySQL enters General Availability

Nov 6th, 2024:  Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed MySQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your MySQL databases across private and public clouds. MySQL is one of the world’s most popular databases. MySQL’s simple deployment model and ease of use make it the

Meet Canonical at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

We are ready to connect with the pioneers of open-source innovation! Canonical, the force behind Ubuntu, is returning as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.  This premier event, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, brings together the brightest minds in open source and cloud-native technologies. From

What is IoT device management?

IoT device management refers to processes or practices used to deploy, monitor and maintain IoT devices. As organizations scale up their IoT efforts, a solid device management approach is essential to running a secure, streamlined fleet of devices.  The proliferation of connected devices worldwide (projected to reach 18.8 billion in 2024)

Join us for Microsoft Ignite

The Canonical team is gearing up for the next big gathering at Microsoft Ignite 2024, which will take place from November 18 – 22, 2024. Get ready to dive deep into the latest conversations that will shape the future of cloud and open-source innovation. Expand and secure your Microsoft Ignite journey with a visit to

Join Canonical in Dallas at Dell Technologies Forum

Canonical is excited to be a sponsor of the Dell Technologies Forum in Dallas, taking place on November 14th. This is a great opportunity to learn about the latest open-source solutions from Canonical and Dell Technologies, and how they can help you transform your business. Register to Dell Technologies Forum – Dallas Empower your organiz


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