Sarah Dickinson

Sarah Dickinson

57 posts

Global Head of PR, IoT & Devices

Sarah manages IoT communications at Canonical. With a keen interest in technology, she has experience working in global B2B and B2C companies including Toshiba and Tektronix.

Sarah Dickinson
8 May 2019

Shared values of Travis CI and snaps enhance integration confidence for developers

Article Desktop

Travis CI is a hosted, distributed continuous integration (CI) service used to build and test software projects hosted on GitHub, and free for anyone working on open source projects. Often regarded as the home of open source testing, Travis CI enables developers to automate their build without the need to set up their...

Sarah Dickinson
8 May 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

An introduction to AppArmor

Article Cloud and server

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, attack frequency is on the rise, and the cost of cybercrime damage is projected to reach $6 trillion annually by 2021. Traditional defensive measures such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems that operate at the network perimeter are no longer enough to protect...

Sarah Dickinson
26 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Why the Visual Studio Code team launched a snap

Article Desktop

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is a popular free code editor with built-in support for debugging, task running, and version control. While available for Linux via tarball, rpm, and debian package options, the Visual Studio Code team had been seeking new options that would support seamless upgrades to match their rapid...

Sarah Dickinson
11 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Optimising IoT bandwidth with delta updates

Article Internet of Things

As connected devices proliferate in the Internet of Things (IoT), companies need an efficient over-the-air (OTA) update mechanism for remotely delivering new software, features, firmware updates and security enhancements to potentially huge numbers of geographically dispersed embedded devices. Pushing software updates...

Sarah Dickinson
9 April 2019

Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Securing IoT device data against physical access

Article Internet of Things

Security remains the number one concern when designing and deploying IoT devices. High profile breaches continue to occur and concerns cease to subside. For any organisation, security needs to be front of mind and considered from the start – not as an afterthought. Having no mechanism in which to address security...

Sarah Dickinson
26 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

How selecting the right Linux OS expedites IoT time to market

Article Internet of Things

With a proliferation of related hardware, software and solutions being rushed out to capture the promise of a multi-billion dollar IoT industry, vendors are under pressure to decrease their development time and speed up their time to market. Choices such as selecting the right infrastructure from the outset become even...

Sarah Dickinson
20 February 2019

Sarah Dickinson
9 January 2019

Apellix engineers safer work environments with Ubuntu powered aerial robotics

Article Internet of Things

In 2016, 16% of all workplace deaths in the US were attributed to falls. Apellix, a Florida-based start up, who specialise in aerial robotics aims to reduce this number by using their drones in place of workers to complete tasks in elevated or dangerous environments. In tandem, these same aerial robotics can also reduce the

Sarah Dickinson
9 January 2019

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

GitKraken picks up community demand to adopt snaps

Article Desktop

Used by the likes of Netflix, Tesla and Apple, GitKraken is the go-to home for developers who are looking for a more user-friendly interface for Git with integrations for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and VSTS (Azure DevOps). Established a couple of years ago, GitKraken offers a Git Client for Windows, Mac and Linux, and...

Sarah Dickinson
29 November 2018

Sarah Dickinson
28 November 2018

Six reasons why developers choose Ubuntu Desktop

Article Desktop

Used in more than 240 countries, by governments, enterprises, and consumers alike, Ubuntu Desktop is the number one Linux operating system (OS) in the world. Ubuntu Desktop is used by leading technology companies in no small part down to the popularity amongst software developers for which it is an attractive platform...

Sarah Dickinson
28 November 2018

Sarah Dickinson
15 October 2018

Self-containing dependencies leads LogMeIn to publish their first Snap

Article Cloud and server

LogMeIn is one of the world’s top 10 public SaaS companies, and a market leader in communication & conferencing, identity & access, and customer engagement & support solutions, making well-known products such as GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, LogMeIn Central, LastPass, and Bold360. The company is headquartered in Boston, US,...

Sarah Dickinson
15 October 2018

Sarah Dickinson
29 August 2018

Moving towards a software defined IoT business model

Article Internet of Things

Fig 1: The journey to a software-defined business model The opportunity to capitalise on the internet of things is significant for many companies, but that doesn’t mean that it is a straightforward journey to success. Companies need to analyse their current business practices and evaluate where benefits can be gained –...

Sarah Dickinson
29 August 2018

Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018

Fing snaps up 30,000 customers with a secure, future-proof IoT device

Article Internet of Things

The number of IoT devices set to be in use worldwide is due to explode depending on the source over the next couple of years. According to Gartner, the figure is set to be as much as 20.4 bn devices by 2020 with consumer products representing 63% of this figure. Many of these will be low-cost

Sarah Dickinson
28 June 2018

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Zenkit: The influence of developer communities in progressing snaps

Article Desktop

Last month, Zenkit published their project management tool as a snap. For those not familiar with Zenkit, they introduced themselves in a guest blog at the time the snap was published which can be read here. Since then, we caught up with Philipp Beck, Full Stack Developer at Zenkit, to discover his opinion on snaps

Sarah Dickinson
19 June 2018

Sarah Dickinson
23 May 2018

Decreasing the complexity of IoT adoption with Edge as a Service model

Article Internet of Things

  Last week, much of the IoT industry descended on Santa Clara, California, for the annual IoT World trade show. One of the exhibitors present were Rigado who Canonical partnered with earlier this year to deploy Ubuntu Core on their IoT gateways primarily targeted at commercial applications such as smart lighting and...

Sarah Dickinson
23 May 2018

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