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Rhys Davies
3 April 2020

The State of Robotics – March 2020

Article Internet of Things

Damn it March. 2020 was doing so well. The biggest news last month was the dramatic escalation of COVID-19. We won’t go into any detail, I’m sure you’re seeing enough of that. But due to the outbreak, the state of robotics this March has been, heartwarming. We have seen a surge in online learning platforms,

Rhys Davies
3 April 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
2 April 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world – part 3: Why ‘smart cell towers’ matter to AI

Article AI

This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here. Recap In part 1 we talked about the industrial applications and benefits that 5G and fast compute at the edge will

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
2 April 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world – part 2: Why make cell towers smart?

Article AI

This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here. Recap In part 1 we talked about the industrial applications and benefits that 5G and fast compute at the edge will

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
2 April 2020

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

Lech Sandecki
1 April 2020

FIPS 140-2: Stay compliant and secure with Canonical

Article Cloud and server

FIPS 140-2 is a set of publicly announced cryptographic standards developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is an essential part of FEDRamp requirements for many governmental agencies in the US and Canada, as well as their business partners from all around the world. Furthermore, as a well...

Lech Sandecki
1 April 2020

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

Tytus Kurek
1 April 2020

OpenStack distros: How to choose the right one?

Article OpenStack

Choosing the right OpenStack distribution is essential to the success of an OpenStack project at every organisation. When selecting one, organisations should always follow certain criteria. Is it possible to operate the considered OpenStack distros economically? How easy is it to deploy them? Can the organisation...

Tytus Kurek
1 April 2020

Canonical
1 April 2020

Canonical announces Managed Apps to simplify enterprise cloud operations

Article DevOps

1st April 2020: Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announces Managed Apps – enabling enterprises to have their apps deployed and operated by Canonical as a fully managed service. At launch, Canonical will cover ten widely used cloud-native database and LMA (logging, monitoring and alerting) apps on multi-cloud...

Canonical
1 April 2020

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
31 March 2020

Edge AI in a 5G world – part 1: How ‘smart cell towers’ will change our lives

Article AI

This is part of a blog series on the impact that 5G and GPUs at the edge will have on the roll out of new AI solutions. You can read the other posts here. Series overview In part 1 we will talk about the industrial applications and benefits that 5G and fast compute at the

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
31 March 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

Bartek Szopka
31 March 2020

Automating our Vanilla releases with GitHub actions

Article Design

The Vanilla framework has a history of being released very infrequently. Sometimes it has been months between releases, which made the upgrade process often hard and time-consuming. One of the reasons for that was a manual and a quite time-consuming release process. Over several weeks earlier this year, we’ve been...

Bartek Szopka
31 March 2020

Anthony Dillon
30 March 2020

Design and Web team summary – 30th March 2020

Article Design

Due to the rapidly developing Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the entire web team has transitioned to 100% remote for the foreseeable future. Canonical is well set up to remain productive but brings design challenges such as group sketching which we are testing and evaluating solutions. Here are some of the highlights...

Anthony Dillon
30 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

Igor Ljubuncic
27 March 2020

Learn snapcraft by example – multi-app client-server snap

Article DevOps

Over the past few months, we published a number of articles showing how to snap desktop applications written in different languages – Rust, Java, C/C++, and others. In each one of these zero-to-hero guides, we went through a representative snapcraft.yaml file and highlighted the specific bits and pieces developers need...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 March 2020