--- title: Blog posts tagged "Ubuntu Advantage for infrastructure" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-advantage-for-infrastructure?format=md --- # Blog posts tagged "Ubuntu Advantage for infrastructure" #### [6 facts for CentOS users who are holding on](https://canonical.com/blog/migrating-to-ubuntu-lts-six-facts-for-centos-users) Considering migrating to Ubuntu from other Linux platforms, such as CentOS? Find six useful facts to get started! --- Cloud and server #### [Less than 6 months to Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: 6 things to prepare](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-16-04-lts-esm-migration-path) 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 --- Apps #### [CIS hardened Ubuntu: cyber attack and malware prevention for mission-critical systems](https://canonical.com/blog/cis-hardened-ubuntu-cyber-attack-and-malware-prevention-for-mission-critical-systems) 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 --- Company #### [FIPS 140-2: Stay compliant and secure with Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/fips-140-2-stay-compliant-and-secure-with-canonical) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical announces Managed Apps to simplify enterprise cloud operations](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-announces-managed-apps-to-simplify-enterprise-cloud-operations) 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 --- DevOps #### [SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/sbi-group-unlocks-infrastructure-automation-with-secure-on-premises-openstack-cloud) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/yahoo-japan-builds-their-iaas-environment-with-canonical) 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) --- Cloud and server #### [Announcing the new IBM LinuxONE III with Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/announcing-the-new-ibm-linuxone-iii-with-ubuntu) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [The 10 new rules of open source infrastructure](https://canonical.com/blog/10-new-rules-open-source-infrastructure) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [BT turns to Canonical Ubuntu to enable next generation 5G Cloud Core](https://canonical.com/blog/bt-turns-to-canonical-ubuntu-to-enable-next-generation-5g-cloud-core) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has transitioned to ESM support](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-14-04-esm-support) 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. --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical consolidates open infrastructure support and security offerings](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-consolidates-open-infrastructure-support-and-security-offerings) 29th April, 2019: Canonical today announced Ubuntu Advantage for Infrastructure, a consolidated enterprise security, compliance and support offering that covers the full range of open source infrastructure capabilities for up to 10 years. “A surge of customers adding Ubuntu to their list of officially supported operating systems has given --- Canonical announcements #### [On the Case – High Resource Usage](https://canonical.com/blog/on-the-case-high-resource-usage) A customer recently submitted a case that Pedro Principeza, a Canonical Support Engineer, was able to solve using an interesting technique. Principeza was contacted to help pinpoint the processes that were generating a high rate of I/O operations, affecting server performance. Implementing a trace to pinpoint workload usage was the best s --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical widens Kubernetes support with kubeadm](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-widens-kubernetes-support-with-kubeadm) Canonical is pleased to announce commercial support for Kubernetes clusters deployed using kubeadm. Companies using kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes in production, development or multi-stage environments, can immediately benefit from enterprise support through Ubuntu Advantage for Kubernetes support on a per-node basis. Support for official D --- Canonical announcements #### [Ubuntu Advantage successfully passes MSPCV cloud certification process](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-advantage-successfully-passes-mspcv-cloud-certification-process) Canonical is pleased to share that it’s TechOps team has successfully completed the MSP Cloud Verify Program (MSPCV) certification process which recognises the quality of companies offering cloud and/or managed services. The MSPCV, conducted by the MSPAlliance, is based on the Unified Certification Standard (UCS) for Cloud and Managed Ser --- Canonical announcements #### [451 Research benchmarks public and private infrastructure cost](https://canonical.com/blog/451-research-benchmarks-public-and-private-infrastructure-cost) Independent Report highlights the TCO of Canonical’s managed private cloud in a diverse multi-cloud strategy and enterprise infrastructure portfolio 451 Research’s latest report, ‘Busting the myth of private cloud economics ’, found that Canonical’s managed private OpenStack offering, BootStack, delivers private cloud with a TCO that matc --- Cloud and server 1. *Previous page* 2. [1](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-advantage-for-infrastructure?format=md&page=1) 3. [2](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-advantage-for-infrastructure?format=md&page=2) 4. [3](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ubuntu-advantage-for-infrastructure?format=md&page=3) 5. 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