Networking archives

19 posts

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 OS 

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...

Canonical solutions reduce SmartNIC time-to-market and drive efficiency in enterprise data centres

By Shashank Balashankar, 13 June 2023

Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive...

Meet Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2023

By Felicia Jia, 6 June 2023

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data centre networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a...

Setup your own VPN server

By Hugo Huang, 1 March 2023

Why do we need a VPN server? A VPN (Virtual Private Network) server is a network server that allows users to create a secure and encrypted connection to...

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