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Cloud storage security best practices
By Philip Williams, 8 February 2024
Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation,...
IBM LinuxONE 4 Express and Ubuntu Server drive data centre performance and economics
By Frank Heimes, 6 February 2024
Canonical is pleased to announce that Ubuntu Server is optimised and fully supported on IBM LinuxONE 4 Express – the newest addition to IBM’s world-leading...
AI on-prem: what should you know?
By Andreea Munteanu, 30 January 2024
Organisations are reshaping their digital strategies, and AI is at the heart of these changes, with many projects now ready to run in production. Enterprises...
Cloud-native infrastructure – When the future meets the present
By Tytus Kurek, 12 January 2024
We’ve all heard about cloud-native applications in recent years, but what about cloud-native infrastructure? Is there any reason why the infrastructure...
What is sovereign cloud?
By Tytus Kurek, 10 January 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, the concept of a sovereign cloud has recently emerged in response to data management challenges. As...
MOTL: N33 NUC, Part 2
By Bill Wear, 3 January 2024
Accessing the BIOS; making a plan My next step is to confirm whether or not the N33 NUC will PXE boot. A moderate Google search didn’t turn up any active...
OpenStack with Sunbeam for small-scale private cloud infrastructure
By Tytus Kurek, 2 January 2024
Whenever it comes to a small-scale private cloud infrastructure project roll-out, organisations usually face a serious dilemma. The implementation process...
Performance engineering on Ubuntu leaps forward with frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
By Oliver Smith, 13 December 2023
Today Canonical is raising the bar for performance and observability by enabling frame pointers by default in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
How to use Ubuntu in GKE on nodes and in containers
By Hugo Huang, 5 December 2023
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) traces its roots back to Google’s development of Borg in 2004, a Google internal system managing clusters and applications. In...
Canonical joins the Sylva project
By Serdar Vural, 5 December 2023
Canonical is proud to announce that we have joined the Sylva project of Linux Foundation Europe as a General Member. We aim to bring our open source...
Edge storage with MicroCeph
By Philip Williams, 5 December 2023
Here, there, everywhere – MicroCeph makes edge storage easy Data is everywhere, not just in large centralised data centres, but in smaller outposts, like...
MOTL: Minis Forum N33 NUC
By Bill Wear, 30 November 2023
Part 1: The hardware setup As a first attempt at trying MAAS outside the lines (MOTL), let’s pick a random, inexpensive Next Unit of Computing (NUC). Indeed,...