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27 November 2018

The power of installed-base snap metrics

Cloud and server Article

The Snap Store is able to provide insightful information to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) about usage of their snap applications. Our goal is to help snap publishers interact better with their users and make the most of their relationship. The primary metric provided by the store is the active installed-base. We will show how this ...


Canonical
26 November 2018

Ubuntu at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon

Cloud and server Article

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon are just around the corner and Ubuntu will be out in force. Held between December 10th – 13th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with the Ubuntu team here at Canonical. The Ubuntu team will be showcasing their ...


Alex Cattle
22 November 2018

How to effortlessly modernise your cloud

Cloud and server Article

Companies across all industries have now adopted the cloud computing paradigm, with many leveraging OpenStack to manage private clouds. But what happens when first generation environments become obsolete, non-upgradeable and exposed to security vulnerabilities? The first option that you choose may not the the one that your businesses will ...


James Nunns
22 November 2018

Goodbye OpenStack, hello Open Infrastructure Summit

Cloud and server Article

We have reached the end of an era, the end of the OpenStack Summit, but we’ve started a new era – the beginning of the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical has been with the OpenStack Summit since its inception, designing, building, operating and supporting OpenStack private clouds on Ubuntu. We understand the importance of certainty, st ...


James Nunns
21 November 2018

Ubuntu, security & compliance

Cloud and server Webinar

Security, regulations and compliance are everyday issues for businesses, whether global or not. HIPAA, GDPR, MiFID II, and a whole host of other regulations, security and compliance demands are shaping the way businesses operate and the technologies that they can use. Although technological choices are not always able to completely solve ...


Alex Cattle
20 November 2018

Behind the drone: how aerial robotics solve industrial IOT challenges

Internet of Things Article

Apellix, an emerging leader in the field of aerial robotics, are creating innovative industrial solutions with the help of Ubuntu. The development of aerial robotic systems to carry out tasks at height has taken the responsibility of dangerous activity away from human workers. With 150 workers dying everyday in the USA as a result of ...


Alan Griffiths
19 November 2018

egmde: a project that uses Mir

Desktop Development

Display servers solve a large and complex problem. Mir provides a broad and powerful library to solve those problems, but there is a learning curve to use Mir effectively. It is really helpful to have a step-by-step example that covers enough of the issues to get a decent start. To address this need there’s a ...


James Nunns
16 November 2018

Mastering the upgrading of OpenStack

Cloud and server Cloud

This past week the OpenStack Summit has been in Berlin with thousands attending the last of its name, given that it will soon be renamed the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical, as a founding member of the OpenStack community, was of course in attendance, speaking with attendees, hosting talks, presenting demos, and on stage delivering ...


Canonical
15 November 2018

OpenStack Summit Berlin 2018, Mark Shuttleworth keynote

Cloud and server Article

Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, took to the stage at the OpenStack Summit Berlin to deliver his keynote, dealing with: product and support, MAAS support for ESXi, upgrading OpenStack smoothly and perfectly portable AI from the cloud to the edge. Mastering the delivery of OpenStack The OpenStack community has, and attracts, amazing pe ...


Stephan Fabel
15 November 2018

Upgrading Charmed Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

This article describes the advantages users of Charmed Kubernetes enjoy through the high degree of automation charms offer the operator. One of the hardest problems of infrastructure-as-a-service operations is upgrading. Charms make it an easy 4 step process that is highly repeatable and predictable in its outcome. Kubernetes on Ubuntu is ...


Guest
14 November 2018

Innovating toward safety: computer controlled aerial robotic systems

Internet of Things Article

This is a guest blog by Jamie Branch, Corrosion Engineer at Apellix.  In the United States alone, 849 workers lost their lives in 2016 from falling while on the job. In the construction industry specifically, falls are the leading cause of worker fatality. At Apellix, we utilise Ubuntu and proprietary software to create innovative industr ...