Blog posts written by Alex Cattle

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Lessons learned from 100+ private cloud builds

Article Cloud and server

Building a private cloud based on OpenStack has typically been a complex process with uncertain build costs based on time and materials requiring specialised expertise and low-level Linux OS knowledge. To help enterprises overcome these challenges,Canonical offers Private Cloud Build to provide businesses with a fully...

Alex Cattle
14 November 2019

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Yahoo! Japan builds their IaaS environment with Canonical

Article Cloud and server

Yahoo! Japan, originally formed as a joint venture between Yahoo! and SoftBank, is one of the most popular internet advertising, search engines and e-commerce sites in the country and employs over 6000 people. Due to having such scale and volume of users, Yahoo! Japan required outside help to build their IaaS...

Alex Cattle
6 November 2019

Alex Cattle
10 September 2019

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps): Deploy at Scale

Webinar Cloud and server

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning adoption in the enterprise is exploding from Silicon Valley to Wall Street with diverse use cases ranging from the analysis of customer behaviour and purchase cycles to diagnosing medical conditions. Following on from our webinar ‘Getting started with AI’, this webinar will...

Alex Cattle
10 September 2019

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Management of snaps in a controlled, enterprise environment

Article Ubuntu

Few enterprises want all their computing devices to be fully exposed to the internet. In an environment of ever-growing security threats, isolating internal networks from the wider internet is not simply best practice, but borderline essential. However, with all the benefits that restricted networks provide, it can pose...

Alex Cattle
6 September 2019

Alex Cattle
27 August 2019

A guide to developing Android apps on Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Android is the most popular mobile operating system and is continuing to grow its market share. IDC expects that Android will have 85.5% of the market by 2022, demonstrating that app development on Android will continue to be an in-demand skill. For developers looking to build Android apps, Ubuntu is the ideal platform...

Alex Cattle
27 August 2019

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

A shift to the Linux app store experience

Article Internet of Things

Linux software developers historically have faced a number of challenges including fragmentation, distribution complexity and a lack of metrics into the success of their applications. Once an application is built, the journey does not end there – for companies and individual developers creating apps, thought needs to be...

Alex Cattle
30 July 2019

Alex Cattle
25 July 2019

Getting started with AI

White paper Cloud and server

From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises alike, organisations are using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to make the best, fastest, most informed decisions to overcome their biggest business challenges. But with AI/ML complexity spanning infrastructure, operations, resources, modelling and...

Alex Cattle
25 July 2019

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

How to build a lightweight system container cluster

Article Cloud and server

LXD, the system container manager, developed by Canonical and shipped by default with Ubuntu, makes it possible to create many containers of various Linux distributions and manage them in a way similar to virtual machines (VMs) but with lower overhead costs associated with them. Unlike VMs, containers have the benefit...

Alex Cattle
18 July 2019

Alex Cattle
9 July 2019

The DevOps guide to IoT projects

White paper Internet of Things

Traditional development methods do not scale into the IoT sphere. Strong inter-dependencies and blurred boundaries among components in the edge device stack result in fragmentation, slow updates, security issues, increased cost, and reduced reliability of platforms. This reality places a major strain on IoT players who...

Alex Cattle
9 July 2019

Alex Cattle
1 July 2019

Cloud Instance Initialisation with cloud-init

Article Cloud and server

Private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud… the variety of locations, platforms and physical substrate you can start a cloud instance on is vast. Yet once you have selected an operating system which best supports your application stack, you should be able to use that operating system as an abstraction layer...

Alex Cattle
1 July 2019

Alex Cattle
25 June 2019

The future of mobile connectivity

Article Cloud and server

Mobile operators face a range of challenges today from saturation, competition and regulation – all of which are having a negative impact on revenues. The introduction of 5G offers new customer segments and services to offset this decline. However, unlike the introduction of 4G which was dominated by consumer benefits,...

Alex Cattle
25 June 2019

Alex Cattle
7 February 2019

Creating multi-purpose hardware with IoT app stores

Article Internet of Things

The traditional approach to IoT requires customised hardware and kernels with a monolithic software image being flashed at the manufacturing stage leaving devices static. This renders devices unable to evolve functionality and subject to unmitigated security risks. A new software defined IoT approach helps produce...

Alex Cattle
7 February 2019

Alex Cattle
6 December 2018

How to harness big data for maximum business value

Article Canonical announcements

Are you getting maximum value from your big data? Despite most businesses understanding the power and competitive advantage they could gain from harnessing their big data more effectively and leveraging it more efficiently, it’s not an easy goal to achieve. That’s why we’ve partnered with Spicule to co-present, ‘How to...

Alex Cattle
6 December 2018

Alex Cattle
22 November 2018

How to effortlessly modernise your cloud

Article Cloud and server

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...

Alex Cattle
22 November 2018