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Rhys Davies
14 January 2020

Why you should upgrade Windows 7 to Ubuntu

Article Desktop

Windows 7 has reached the end of its life. It will no longer receive security updates and Microsoft’s technical support will stop. Running an out-of-date OS can have serious potential risks, and if you’re one of more than 750,000 people using Windows exposed to the internet, you may have a problem. Fortunately, there are two

Rhys Davies
14 January 2020

nilayshrugged
14 January 2020

How to launch IoT devices – Part 1: Why it takes so long

Article Internet of Things

(This blog post is part of a 5 part series, titled “How to launch IoT devices”. It will cover the key choices and concerns when turning bright IoT ideas into a product in the market. Sign up to the webinar on How to launch IoT devices to get the full story, all in one place.)

nilayshrugged
14 January 2020

Rhys Davies
10 January 2020

The State of Robotics – Robotics Over the Holidays

Article Robotics

Canonical closes for the holidays, but robots just get more festive. Roboticists seem to feel the festive spirit, and it turns their projects into festive robots. The Ubuntu robotics team isn’t quite ready to let go of the festive cheer. So we’d like to share with you some of our favourite projects that we saw

Rhys Davies
10 January 2020

Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Infrastructure-as-Code mistakes and how to avoid them

Article Cloud and server

Two industry trends point to a gap in DevOps tooling chosen by many. Operations teams need more than an Infrastructure-as-Code approach, but a complete model-driven operations mentality. Learn how Canonical has addressed these concerns to create multiple world-leading products.

Tim McNamara
10 January 2020

Bill Wear
9 January 2020

MAAS readying enhanced network testing and link checking

Article MAAS

Enhanced MAAS Network Testing and Link Checking With the upcoming release of MAAS 2.7, Metal-as-a-Service has gained new network testing and link-checking features. These features identify broken and slow network links when you try to commission machines, notifying you when there are discrepancies. In this release,...

Bill Wear
9 January 2020

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Article Cloud and server

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution.

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Rhys Davies
7 January 2020

Keep enterprise ROS robots up-to-date with snaps

Article Robotics

When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when mobile apps need updating, it only takes a few clicks and a minute or two before it’s back up and running. This blog discusses how ROS robots

Rhys Davies
7 January 2020

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2020

Discover cool apps with snap find

Article Desktop

Software discovery and installation broadly comes in two flavors – via graphical user interface or on the command line. If you’re using a Linux distribution with a friendly software frontend offering integrated snap support, e.g. KDE Discover or GNOME Software, you can enjoy the experience without having to resort to...

Igor Ljubuncic
3 January 2020

Tytus Kurek
2 January 2020

OpenStack vs VMware: Bringing costs down

Article Cloud and server

Moving to OpenStack from VMware can significantly reduce the TCO associated with an initial roll-out and ongoing maintenance of your cloud infrastructure. OpenStack vs VMware economic analysis shows that under certain circumstances, it is possible to bring the costs down by an entire order of magnitude. This requires...

Tytus Kurek
2 January 2020

nilayshrugged
27 December 2019

This is why smart displays run Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

First impressions count, and making sure your users can see and interact with your product in a seamless way, means selecting the right smart display technology. Read on to find out what hardware features are needed to make a reliable smart display, and why smart displays run Ubuntu Core. Medical imaging to smart...

nilayshrugged
27 December 2019

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
25 December 2019

MAAS 2.7, better networking features for server provisioning

Article Cloud and server

Our MAAS team has been hard at work, making life even better for those of you who provision and manage servers and data centres. This hard work has produced a new release, MAAS 2.7! This blog describes how MAAS 2.7 can detect network faults before users run into them, and test network configurations before you

Eduardo Aguilar Pelaez
25 December 2019

Anthony Dillon
20 December 2019

Design and Web team summary – 20 December 2019

Article Design

This is the final iteration of the year. The team has worked exceptionally hard to produce a number of new projects and initiatives. Here is a shortlist of highlights from the team in 2019: JAAS dashboard, proof of concept – a new view of Juju for people that have a lot of Juju to list

Anthony Dillon
20 December 2019

Rhys Davies
20 December 2019

ROS-Industrial – Canonical

Article Robotics

ROS-Industrial was way better than I expected it to be. As a first time ROS-Industrial attendee and only a second-time ROS-anything. I’m not sure what my expectations were. But it was really good. A great event, some great speakers, new friends and cool robots. What more could you want? This blog will not cover every

Rhys Davies
20 December 2019

Katie Elston
19 December 2019

OpenStack and Kubernetes architecture on rails with Canonical and Dell EMC

OpenStack Cloud and server

Canonical and Dell EMC have announced the release of a new OpenStack reference architecture – providing customers with a tested, certified framework for deploying Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack solution on top of Dell EMC’s best-of-breed PowerEdge servers. This follows the availability of a Kubernetes reference...

Katie Elston
19 December 2019