We are excited to announce that, on the 21st of August 2024, product managers Andreea Munteanu (AI) and Adrian Matei (Managed Services) will represent Canonical in a keynote session at Kubecon China, at the Kerry Hotel in Hong Kong. Canonical has been a regular presence at Kubecon events over the years, and we are excited to ..read more

Date: August 27, 2024 Venue: The Fullerton Hotel Sydney Time: 13:00 PM – 18:00 PM AI has officially taken off. Today, thousands of exciting projects are being taken to production in all industries, while a report by Deloitte found that use of gen AI by employees at Australian workplaces rose to 38% in 2023. Despite ..read more

The choices you make around IT infrastructure have great impact for both business cost and performance, across areas as diverse as operations, finance, data analysis and marketing. Given the importance of data across all of these areas and frankly, across your business as a whole, making the right decision when choosing a new storage system is critical.  In this blog post we will take a look at some of the factors to consider in order to ensure you balance cost effectiveness with performance. Performance  There are multiple dimensions to storage performance, first let’s consider the ..read more

You may have heard of the term Open Radio Access Networks (RAN) widely used in the telecom industry in recent years. In this blog, we are going to explain what Open RAN is, why it represents an important technology transformation, and how it will impact the telecom ecosystem. It is the first part of a series of blogs that will discuss this popular topic. Mobile telecommunication networks Understanding the importance of Open RAN requires some insight into the foundation it’s deployed on, so let’s start with a quick definition of a mobile network. In simplest terms, mobile networks are a connect ..read more

Canonical’s Data and AI portfolio is growing with a new data and analytics tool. We proudly announce that Charmed OpenSearch version 2.14 is now available in Beta. OpenSearch®  is a comprehensive search engine and analytics suite solution that thousands of organisations use for various use cases in search engines, security, and AI/ML. From today, data engineers, scientists, analysts,  machine learning engineers, and AI enthusiasts can take the Charmed OpenSearch beta for a drive and share the feedback directly with us and in our beta programme. Join our beta program What is OpenSea ..read more

Date: 12 – 14 August 2024 Booth: 426 Autumn is a season full of events for the AI/ML industry. We are starting early this year, before the summer ends, and will be in Las Vegas to attend AI4 2024. This is North America’s largest industry event, and it attracts some of the biggest names in the AI/ML space to share deep discussions about initial exploration for AI, machine learning operations (MLOps) and AI at the edge. Join Canonical at our very first AI4, where you’ll be able to get in-person recommendations for innovating at speed with open source AI. Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, th ..read more

An enterprise-grade PostgreSQL you can rely on Jul 17, 2024: Today Canonical announced the release of Charmed PostgreSQL, an enterprise solution that helps you secure and automate the deployment, maintenance and upgrades of your PostgreSQL databases across private and public clouds. PostgreSQL is an open source database management system. It has been successfully used for more than 3 decades across all IT sectors. Its maturity and its vibrant community consistently make it a first-choice DBMS among developers. Canonical’s Charmed PostgreSQL builds on this foundation with additional capabi ..read more

Cloud storage solutions can provide public sector organisations with a high degree of flexibility when it comes to their storage needs, either public cloud based, or in their own private clouds. In our previous blog post we looked at the economic differences between these two approaches. In this blog we will explore some of the security best practices when using cloud storage, so that you can ensure that sensitive data remains securely stored and compliance objectives are met. The points we cover will be relevant to both on-premise storage and storage solutions in a public cloud. Risks associ ..read more

Introduction Apache Spark, a framework for parallel distributed data processing, has become a popular choice for building streaming applications, data lake houses and big data extract-transform-load data processing (ETL). It is horizontally scalable, fault-tolerant, and performs well at high scale. Historically however, managing and scaling Spark jobs running on Apache Hadoop clusters could be challenging and often time-consuming for many reasons, but surely at least due to the availability of physical systems and configuring the Kerberos security protocol that Hadoop uses. But there is a new ..read more

If you’ve been reading my blogs for the past two years, you know that the automotive industry is probably the most innovative one today. As a matter of fact, some of the biggest company valuations revolve around electric vehicles (EVs), autonomous driving (AD) and artificial intelligence (AI). As with any revolution, this one comes with its set of challenges.  I’ve noticed that the most difficult technologies to grasp and master aren’t always the ones that seem the most complex at first sight. Over-the-air (OTA) updates and managing the telemetry of a fleet are typically some of the ..read more