Blog posts written by James Nunns

James Nunns
20 September 2018

Ubuntu does Kubernetes

Article Cloud and server

Kubernetes: the tech industry has become pretty well versed in talking about what has become one of the biggest technology trends in the past few years with most claiming some involvement in it. Canonical also does Kubernetes, but not in a ‘me too!’ kind of way. The Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is pure upstream

James Nunns
20 September 2018

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Financial services: escaping the burning platform

Article Cloud and server

The financial services industry is standing on a burning platform, it’s time to jump to safety or suffer the consequences. The platform in this picture is the legacy infrastructure that dominates their IT organisations. From ageing servers and a dwindling workforce that’s even capable of running these monoliths, the...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Robots that run Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

The home for innovators, Ubuntu is a place where developers can create what previously lived solely in the realms of fiction. The internet of things, the cloud, and robots are world changing technologies and they’re all running Ubuntu. With an estimated worldwide spending figure of $103bn by 2020, according to IDC, the...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

James Nunns
11 September 2018

What is multi-cloud?

Article Cloud and server

Tech companies, Canonical included, have a problem. That problem is living in buzzwords and jargon, and then assuming everyone knows what we are talking about. At Canonical we call them ‘Canonicalisms’, other companies have their own names for it. Whilst we can joke about it, this over-reliance on jargon is a genuine...

James Nunns
11 September 2018

James Nunns
19 June 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI and Blockchain

Article Cloud and server

How do financial services organisations evolve so that they are no longer seen as cumbersome Goliaths unable to keep up with the pace of change? The answer has its roots at both an infrastructure level, where legacy technology is being replaced with something more akin to what is seen in challengers banks or in technology

James Nunns
19 June 2018

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