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Xebia and Canonical Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver End-to-End Open Source and AI Solutions

September 25, 2025

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London, September 25, 2025—Xebia, a global AI-first consultancy that combines deep expertise in software engineering, data, and cloud to help organizations lead through innovation and responsible AI, today announced a strategic partnership with Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and a leader in open-source software. This collaboration enables enterprise clients to access secure, production-ready platforms combined with expert implementation, AI innovation, and scalable training programs.

A Partnership from the Ground Up

The partnership was sparked at the ground level when teams from Xebia and Canonical recognized a natural alignment in engineering culture, open-source values, and client-first delivery. What began as a grassroots collaboration evolved into a formal alliance, pairing Canonical’s trusted, open-source supply chain with Xebia’s strengths in implementation, Data and AI, and upskilling.

“Our enterprise clients are seeking complete, future-proof platforms — not just infrastructure, but a clear path to application and AI enablement,” said Krzysztof Zarzycki, CTO CEE Data & AI at Xebia. “Canonical provides a powerful foundation. Combined with our consulting and training expertise, we can now offer clients truly end-to-end outcomes.”

“Xebia’s technical depth and enablement capabilities complement Canonical’s delivery capabilities for complex customer solutions,” added Nicholas Dimotakis, VP of Worldwide Field Engineering at Canonical. “Together, we can accelerate open-source adoption while helping clients unlock real business value from AI and data.”

Canonical: An open source partner clients trust

Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux distribution. With decades of open source innovation, Canonical delivers solutions across the entire stack - from the operating system and infrastructure to the application layer. Their portfolio includes:

Hardware automation: MAAS
Operating system: Ubuntu (Server, Desktop, Core)
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, MicroCloud, OpenStack, Ceph, Landscape
Data solutions: Kafka, Spark, MongoDB, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, Redis
AI/ML: Kubeflow, MLFlow, Feast, Kyuubi

With a focus on automation, scalability, and enterprise-grade security, Canonical provides a reliable and cost-effective foundation for modern workloads.

Where Xebia complements Canonical

Where Xebia Complements Canonical

What makes this partnership effective is not only shared values, but clear alignment across delivery capabilities:

Infrastructure Deployment – Canonical provides secure, cloud-native environments and automation tooling.
Application Enablement – Guidance through application onboarding and integration into existing systems.
Data & AI Solutions – Hands-on delivery of scalable ML and GenAI solutions, built with operational best practices in mind.

AI in Practice: Joint Solutions at Work

GenAI Deployments: Canonical and Xebia co-deliver enterprise-grade LLM solutions with infrastructure setup, model tuning, and enablement tied to business KPIs.
Data & ML Pipelines: End-to-end rollouts using Spark, Kafka, Airflow, with embedded onboarding for client teams and DevOps support.

The Xebia Academy Advantage

One of the partnership’s key strengths is the integration of Xebia Academy - a structured enablement offering that delivers hands-on training in AI, MLOps, and data engineering. Canonical clients gain not only the technology stack but also the internal skills to scale and maintain it.

This reinforces Canonical’s mission: to amplify the global impact of open source by making it secure, accessible, and scalable, empowering innovation everywhere.

Shared Focus on Delivery and Craftsmanship

Both companies share a dedication to open source, technical excellence, and long-term client value. From infrastructure to applications to AI, this partnership delivers transparent, collaborative, and production-ready outcomes.

Whether clients are just starting their platform journey or scaling mature AI initiatives, Canonical and Xebia provide everything needed from the operating system to model deployment.

Looking Ahead

This partnership marks only the beginning. Canonical and Xebia are continuing to expand their collaboration across joint service delivery, go-to-market efforts, and next-generation enablement programs in Data & AI. With a focus on long-term impact and sustainable innovation, both companies are committed to supporting clients at every stage of their transformation journey.

If you’re ready to accelerate your digital roadmap — from GenAI and MLOps to secure open-source infrastructure — we’re ready to support you.

About Xebia

Xebia is a global leader in IT consulting, software engineering, and training. With over 25 years of experience and a team of 5,500+ professionals across 16 countries, Xebia specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Data and Cloud, Intelligent Automation, and Digital Products and Platforms. With a strong focus on engineering excellence and a people-first culture, they equip organizations to apply emerging technologies that accelerate business innovation and drive sustainable competitive advantage. Xebia leads with a responsible and human-centric approach to AI, ensuring organizations shape a better tomorrow for all.

About Canonical

Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, provides open source security, support and services. Our portfolio covers critical systems, from the smallest devices to the largest clouds, from the kernel to containers, from databases to AI. With customers that include top tech brands, emerging startups, governments and home users, Canonical delivers trusted open source for everyone.

Learn more at https://canonical.com/

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