Maarten Ectors

48 posts

VP IoT, NG Networking & Proximity Cloud

Maarten Ectors is responsible at Canonical for Internet of Things, the next-generation of networking and cloud solutions that are in proximity of the user or at the edges of the network. Previously he was strategy director for cloud, big data and IoT. Maarten reports to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical.

Maarten Ectors
2 February 2015

Snappy Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Article Cloud and server

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu...

Maarten Ectors
2 February 2015

Maarten Ectors
16 December 2014

Truphone uses Juju to demo world’s first telecom solution in minutes

Article Cloud and server

World’s first demo of live, open source telecom service runs in the cloud … and all in software Truphone‘s head of R&D together with TeleStax, Metaswitch and Canonical – have demonstrated the world’s first provisioning and operation of a cloud-based IMS core and application server for a live voting service using the...

Maarten Ectors
16 December 2014

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Article Cloud and server

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers,...

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Maarten Ectors
31 July 2014

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju…

Article Cloud and server

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju and now anybody can use the solution in minutes. Mid May Alan Quayle, the organiser of the first telecom application developer hackaton – TADHack, contacts Ubuntu and says that one of the sponsors suggested to setup a TURN and STUN server for the...

Maarten Ectors
31 July 2014

Maarten Ectors
18 June 2014

Forgerock shows the future of instant identity integration with Juju

Article Cloud and server

Forgerock, the leading unified open source identity solution provider, showed on the Identity Relationship Management Summit how Juju is changing the future of identity integration. In minutes their identity solution gets integrated with other charms. Traditionally companies would need months to integrate single sign-on...

Maarten Ectors
18 June 2014

Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality

Article Cloud and server

At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs...

Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014