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Stephanie Domas
6 February 2025

A CISO’s comprehensive breakdown of the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)

Compliance Article

The CRA is coming, and you need to be prepared. Depending on the Class your product falls into, there could be additional assessment, security, documentation, patching, compliance and reporting requirements on you and your teams. Find out how your digital product or service is categorised, reexamine your cybersecurity practices and design ...


Henry Coggill
5 February 2025

FIPS 140-3 certified modules now available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

FIPS Article

New deployments should take advantage of the new FIPS 140-3 certified modules available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ...


Jean-Baptiste Lallement
5 February 2025

Ubuntu available in Microsoft’s new WSL distribution format

Desktop Article

New format in Windows Subsystem for Linux makes adoption easier in enterprise environments by enabling image customization and deployments at scale ...


Henry Coggill
4 February 2025

The role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance

FIPS Article

Good news in the US federal compliance space. The latest FedRAMP policy relaxes past restrictions that prevented organizations from applying critical security updates. ...


Philip Williams
3 February 2025

How to reduce data storage costs by up to 50% with Ceph

Ceph Article

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) In our last blog post we talked about how you can use Intel® QAT with Canonical Ceph, today we’ll cover why this technology is important from a business perspective – in other words, we’re talking data storage costs. Retaining and protecting data has an inherent cost based ...


Philip Williams
27 January 2025

How to utilize CPU offloads to increase storage efficiency

Ceph Article

Canonical Ceph with IntelⓇ Quick Assist Technology (QAT) When storing large amounts of data, the cost ($) to store each gigabyte (GB) is the typical measure used to gauge the efficiency of the storage system. The biggest driver of storage cost is the protection method used.  It is common to protect data by either having ...


Robert Ancell
22 January 2025

Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps

Desktop Article

Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our software store. Last year we announced at the Ubuntu Summit that we’ve been working on br ...


ilvipero
21 January 2025

Ubuntu Summit 2024 Reflections

Ubuntu Article

As we move into 2025, we wanted to reflect on the crowning event of the year: the Ubuntu Summit. Just over two months ago, we celebrated Ubuntu’s 20th birthday in The Hague, the Netherlands. We’re still buzzing from the electric atmosphere you all brought to this event, as we came together to showcase what open ...


João Hellmeister
20 January 2025

A comprehensive guide to NIS2 Compliance: Part 3 – Setting the roadmap and demonstrating NIS2 compliance.

Ubuntu Article

In this third and final part of the series, I’ll provide some tips on how to set up your roadmap and effectively demonstrate compliance without overburdening your teams.  If you’re just joining the fun now, in our two previous editions we covered who NIS2 applies to and what requirements it sets out. Be sure to ...


piperdeck
20 January 2025

An Introduction to Open Source Licensing for complete beginners

Design Article

Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the forum threads filled with advice ...


Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 January 2025

Bringing 12-year LTS to 32-bit Arm processors as CRA comes into force

IoT Article

With the release of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu Core 24, Canonical introduced a 12-year Long Term Support commitment for 32-bit Arm® processors, addressing the critical time_t overflow issue, commonly known as the “Year 2038 problem.” These processors, essential for critical IoT devices requiring a smaller DRAM footprint an ...