Blog posts written by Alex Cattle

Alex Cattle
1 April 2020

Steps to maximise robotics security with Ubuntu

White paper Internet of Things

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source platform for advanced robotics. Its flexibility and ease-of-use make it well-suited to a wide array of robotics applications – however, these robots are not always sufficiently protected against security threats. Opportunistic attacks are by far the most...

Alex Cattle
1 April 2020

Accelerate AI/ML workloads with Kubeflow and System Architecture

Webinar AI

AI/ML model training is becoming more time consuming due to the increase in data needed to achieve higher accuracy levels. This is compounded by growing business expectations to frequently re-train and tune models as new data is available. The two combined is resulting in heavier compute demands for AI/ML applications....

Alex Cattle
1 April 2020

Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

Rigado cuts customers’ time-to-market with Ubuntu Core and AWS

Case study Internet of Things

In the fast-paced world of IoT, being able to reduce time-to-market is a priority. Rigado’s core mission is to provide scalable and secure infrastructure for their customers’ commercial IoT deployments. It became clear to Rigado that, to achieve the ease of use it was looking for, it needed to redesign its gateway...

Alex Cattle
31 March 2020

Alex Cattle
29 March 2020

Smart cards login on Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

Smart cards have proliferated and are now everywhere, from work ID badges to credit cards and passports. For example, the United States Federal Government uses smart cards to control access to federal facilities and information systems because they offer an extra layer of security and respond to strict government...

Alex Cattle
29 March 2020

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

How Domotz streamlined provisioning of IoT devices

Case study Internet of Things

As the number of IoT devices scale, the challenges of provisioning and keeping them up to date in the field increases. Domotz, who manufacture an all-in-one, network monitoring and management device for enterprise IoT networks, found themselves with this challenge that was further compounded by their rapid software...

Alex Cattle
26 March 2020

Alex Cattle
17 March 2020

SBI Group unlocks infrastructure automation with secure, on-premises OpenStack cloud

Case study Cloud and server

SBI BITS provides IT services and infrastructure to the SBI Group — Japan’s market leading financial services company group — which is made up of over 250 companies, and 6,000 employees. To increase time to market and meet heavy client requirements, SBI BITs was looking for alternative solutions beyond bare metal...

Alex Cattle
17 March 2020

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Interana uses ESM to maintain system security while upgrading its customers to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS across public clouds

Case study Cloud and server

Interana, an analytics software provider, enables users to run advanced big data queries on raw customer data and delivers answers in seconds. Their customers include Microsoft, Comcast and Salesforce. Interana’s leading-edge platform is based on Ubuntu and deployed directly inside customers’ public cloud environments....

Alex Cattle
10 March 2020

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Hosted private cloud infrastructure: a cost analysis

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud infrastructure remains an essential part of every enterprise nowadays. However, due to the increasing number of workloads and data, the overhead of managing bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers can mount up. Although tools like MAAS, OpenStack and Kubernetes help to address this problem,...

Alex Cattle
6 March 2020

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

Anbox Cloud – An introduction

Article Cloud and server

Anbox Cloud, Canonical’s recently launched platform, delivers Android at scale in the cloud. Leveraging Android as a guest operating system to virtualise mobile workloads on servers while streaming graphical output to clients, Anbox Cloud empowers innovators to create rich digital experiences on various mobile form...

Alex Cattle
3 March 2020

Alex Cattle
14 February 2020

Accelerating IoT device time to market

Article Internet of Things

Launching IoT devices and managing them at scale can be a time intensive and complex process. With 85% of IoT initiatives not launched after a year of development, it is inevitable that change is needed. To overcome these challenges, Canonical has introduced Smart Start, a package that reduces business and technical...

Alex Cattle
14 February 2020

Alex Cattle
6 February 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world

Webinar AI

Deploying AI/ML solutions in latency-sensitive use cases requires a new solution architecture approach for many businesses. Fast computational units (i.e. GPUs) and low-latency connections (i.e. 5G) allow for AI/ML models to be executed outside the sensors/actuators (e.g. cameras & robotic arms). This reduces costs...

Alex Cattle
6 February 2020

Alex Cattle
3 February 2020

A decision maker’s guide to Kubernetes deployment

Kubernetes Kubernetes

The container landscape is based on constantly evolving technology, with Kubernetes dominating the ecosystem for automating and managing containerised applications. While a very powerful software, it’s also complex. How do you compare Kubernetes to other options, get started with containers, and maintain over the...

Alex Cattle
3 February 2020

Alex Cattle
27 January 2020

An intro to MicroK8s

Article DevOps

MicroK8s is the smallest, fastest multi-node Kubernetes. Single-package fully conformant lightweight Kubernetes that works on 42 flavours of Linux as well as Mac and Windows using Multipass. Perfect for: Developer workstations, IoT, Edge, CI/CD. Anyone who’s tried to work with Kubernetes knows the pain of having to deal...

Alex Cattle
27 January 2020

Alex Cattle
29 November 2019

Build smart display devices with Mir: fast to production, secure, open-source

Article Internet of Things

Industrial robots, home appliances, advertising screens, office information boards… devices of every type around us are getting connected. As they do, their screens turn from single purpose displays to reconfigurable, multi-purpose smart display. As the amount of code required to build these displays, the production...

Alex Cattle
29 November 2019