Canonical

Open source offers the world’s innovation in code. Canonical delivers it faster, more reliably and more cost effectively than any other company.

Since 2004, Canonical has built a global community around Ubuntu, a Linux distribution that makes software accessible to everyone. Today, it continues to grow open-source communities and make open source more secure, reliable and manageable at scale.

Its portfolio helps simplify modern software development and operations. It offers building blocks that cover the full technology stack – from the operating system to applications.

Why Canonical for enterprise AI?

• run your entire AI/ML lifecycle on a single integrated stack
• develop at all scales with the same software provider
• control your total cost of ownership with predictable pricing
• get maintained and supported open-source AI software

Canonical provides the building blocks to help you innovate at your own pace. From starting data science on Ubuntu workstations to scaling big data analytics with supported database and MLOps software all on open source.

Use cases include:

• confidential AI
• data science
• AI infrastructure
• data management
• MLOps
• generative AI with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• big data analytics
• edge AI

Case study: https://ubuntu.com/engage/ai-ml-casestudy-tasmania