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Graham Morrison
26 February 2024

Introducing Canonical’s Open Documentation Academy

Article Community

tldr; Our Open Documentation Academy starts this week with our first weekly Documentation Office Hours on Friday 1st March 2024 at 16:00 UTC. Everyone is welcome! Keep reading, or see our forum post for more details and to leave questions. Many of us at Canonical wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Linux and open

Graham Morrison
26 February 2024


arighi
26 February 2024

Crafting new Linux schedulers with sched-ext, Rust and Ubuntu

Article Ubuntu

In our ongoing exploration of Rust and Ubuntu, we delve into an experimental kernel project that leverages these technologies to create new schedulers for Linux. Playing around with CPU scheduling policies has always been a dream for many kernel hackers and OS enthusiasts. However, such material typically remains within...

arighi
26 February 2024


Philip Williams
26 February 2024

Ceph Storage for AI

Article Ceph

Use open source Ceph storage to fuel your AI vision The use of AI is a hot topic for any organisation right now. The allure of operational insights, profit, and cost reduction that could be derived from existing data makes it a technology that’s being rolled out at an incredible pace in even change-resistant organisations.

Philip Williams
26 February 2024


Serdar Vural
23 February 2024

Bringing automation to telco edge clouds at scale

Article Cloud and server

Canonical and Spectro Cloud have collaborated to develop an effective and composable telco edge cloud solution, which is built with Canonical’s open source infrastructure solutions and Spectro Cloud’s Palette containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. This technology stack empowers operators to benefit from the cost...

Serdar Vural
23 February 2024


Michael C. Jaeger
23 February 2024

What is a Kubernetes operator?

Article Charms

Kubernetes is the open source, industry-standard platform for deploying, managing and scaling containerized applications – and applications on Kubernetes are easier with operators.

Michael C. Jaeger
23 February 2024


robgibbon
22 February 2024

Migrating from Cloudera to a modern data hub architecture

Article Data Platform

In the early 2010s, Apache Hadoop captured the imagination of the tech community. A free and powerful open source platform, it gave users a way to process unimaginably large quantities of data, and offered a dazzling variety of tooling to suit nearly every use case – MapReduce for odd jobs like processing of text, audio

robgibbon
22 February 2024


ijlal-loutfi
21 February 2024

Preview Confidential AI with Ubuntu Confidential VMs and NVIDIA H100 GPUs on Microsoft Azure

Confidential computing Confidential computing

Learn about Confidential AI preview on Azure with Ubuntu confidental VMs and Nvidia H100 GPUs, and explore how confidential computing in the cloud transforms AI security, ensuring utmost confidentiality and integrity for sensitive data and models.

ijlal-loutfi
21 February 2024


Andreea Munteanu
19 February 2024

Edge AI: what, why and how with open source

Article Ubuntu

Edge AI is transforming the way that devices interact with data centres, challenging organisations to stay up to speed with the latest innovations. From AI-powered healthcare instruments to autonomous vehicles, there are plenty of use cases that benefit from artificial intelligence on edge devices. This blog will dive...

Andreea Munteanu
19 February 2024


Miona Aleksic
15 February 2024

5 Edge Computing Examples You Should Know

Article Cloud and server

In this blog, we’re exploring edge computing examples, its diverse applications and use cases, with a special focus on how Canonical’s MicroCloud fits seamlessly into this transformative landscape.

Miona Aleksic
15 February 2024


Wajeeha Hamid
14 February 2024

Auto-scaling of Intel FlexRAN components based on MicroK8s and Ubuntu real-time kernel support

Article Telecommunications

RAN has incrementally evolved with every generation of mobile telecommunications, thus enabling faster data transfers between user devices and core networks. The amount of data has increased more than ever with an increase in the number of interlinked devices. With existing network architectures, challenges lie in...

Wajeeha Hamid
14 February 2024


Canonical
14 February 2024

Firecell and Canonical to demonstrate 5G private mobile network (PMN) solution running on Ubuntu at MWC Barcelona

Article Canonical announcements

Paris, France. 14 February 2024. United by a common goal to advance open source software in telecommunications, Firecell and Canonical will demonstrate at this year’s Mobile Wireless Congress (MWC) event in Barcelona, 5G private mobile network (PMN) solutions running on Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system. Recognising...

Canonical
14 February 2024


lizzieepton
13 February 2024

Simplify IoT device management: How to add Ubuntu Core devices to Landscape

Article Internet of Things

Landscape has been a member of the Canonical product list for almost as long as Canonical has existed. Landscape allows administrators to manage their desktop and server instances from a single centralised portal. With the latest release of Landscape Server (23.10), we’ve introduced the ability to manage snap packages...

lizzieepton
13 February 2024


Michelle Anne Tabirao
12 February 2024

MongoDB® use cases for financial services

Article Data Platform

MongoDB is the ideal fit, and it’s one of the most widely used databases in the financial services industry. It  provides a sturdy, adaptable and trustworthy foundation.

Michelle Anne Tabirao
12 February 2024


Philip Williams
8 February 2024

Cloud storage security best practices

Article Ceph

Secure your data by using Ceph’s security features How can I securely store data in a cloud storage system? Data is like the crown jewels of any organisation, if lost or exposed there could be severe repercussions.  Failure to protect against system failure could lead to the loss of business data rendering a business...

Philip Williams
8 February 2024