congatec, a leading global supplier of embedded and edge computing technologies, announces a partnership with Canonical, the distributor of Ubuntu. The collaboration enables congatec to provide the best out-of-box experience through the bundling of the aReady.COM platform with Ubuntu Pro, creating an optimized platform that brings security, reliability and stability to users.
Designers across industries need more flexibility, faster time to market and lower development costs to cope with the ever-increasing innovation cycles and stay ahead of the market. congatec meets these needs with aReady.COM, a complete and functionally verified platform including workload consolidation, operating system and functional software layers that OEMs can seamlessly integrate their applications with. Thanks to the partnership with Canonical, aReady.COM will now be Ubuntu certified and pre-enabled with Ubuntu Pro, ensuring smooth software integration, optimized system stability and long-term security through regular updates. This is a key priority for device OEMs and their end users in the context of the Cyber Resilience Act.
Andreas Bergbauer, Manager Solutions Management at congatec, explains: "Our collaboration with Canonical enables us to offer our customers a new level of application readiness with the aReady.COM platform, which comes pre-installed with certified Ubuntu instances and with Ubuntu Pro enabled by default. This significantly reduces time to market and provides long-term security and reliability."
"The collaboration with congatec demonstrates our strong commitment to providing secure and optimized platforms for embedded and edge applications. Our certified solutions provide OEMs with the reliability and security they need to fully innovate," explains Alexander Lehmann, Director IoT Sales at Canonical.
Ubuntu Pro comes with up to 12 years of security maintenance and long-term support, access to device management tools, the possibility to use live Ubuntu for latency-critical applications, and compliance solutions for multiple standards and regulations, including the Cyber Resilience Act. This ensures that customers benefit from a constantly updated, evolving and future-proof platform. Furthermore, the powerful congatec modules combined with the functionality of Ubuntu Pro offer a cost-effective platform for demanding embedded applications in industries such as industrial automation, robotics, infrastructure and medical technology.