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What is RDMA?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 11 February 2026
Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between...
Canonical and NVIDIA BlueField-4: a foundation for zero-trust high performance infrastructure
By Benjamin Ryzman, 28 October 2025
At NVIDIA GTC Washington D.C., Canonical is pleased to support the arrival of the NVIDIA BlueField-4 – the newest generation of the data processing unit (DPU)...
Canonical Kubernetes meets NVIDIA DOCA Platform Framework (DPF): building the future of DPU-driven infrastructure
By Benjamin Ryzman, 11 June 2025
The combined solutions simplify infrastructure operations and accelerate time-to-value for AI, telecom, and enterprise computing workloads. Accelerate...
SONiC: The open source network operating system for modern data centers
By Benjamin Ryzman, 9 April 2025
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source network operating system that has revolutionized data center networking. Originating as a...
The future of Kubernetes networking: Cilium and other CNIs with Canonical Kubernetes
By Benjamin Ryzman, 2 April 2025
Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch...
Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI
By Gokhan Cetinkaya, 28 October 2024
Empower your modern workforce with VDI from HPE, Canonical, and HP Anyware For years, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has helped power the most complex...
Data centre networking: What is OVN?
By Benjamin Ryzman, 24 September 2024
Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space.
Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs
By Benjamin Ryzman, 21 June 2024
It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service...
Canonical collaborates with NVIDIA to simplify enterprise AI deployments with NVIDIA BlueField-3 operating an optimised, Ubuntu-based Linux OSÂ
By Shashank Balashankar, 19 March 2024
The NVIDIA BlueField-3 networking platform – powering the latest data processing units (DPUs) and SuperNICs, and transforming data centre performance and...
SmartNICs in telco: benefits and use cases
By Serdar Vural, 11 October 2023
In our previous blog, we introduced smartNICs as technology enablers for next-generation converged data centres. We covered how smartNICs can increase...
What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?
By Serdar Vural, 6 October 2023
Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are...