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AI/ML in retail: how the shopping experience has changed

From brick-and-mortar stores to online marketplaces, retail companies are all increasing their investments in artificial intelligence, in order to gain a competitive advantage!

Open source security: from prevention to recovery

So you have just installed the latest antivirus and turned on your shiny new firewall. Now your organisation is fully secure, right?  The reality is that all the security products in the world will never be able to fully protect your data centre or your business from security threats. Because of the asymmetry between attackers

Accelerate automotive 3D models with vGPU

3D models are a key component for building digital twins.

Empowering developers in financial services with desktop as a service

The pandemic has accelerated the trend toward remote working environments but it also pushed governance and security issues to the top of the priority list for IT departments within financial institutions. Employees, and developers in particular, need the technological agility to work remotely given the hybrid workplace model being adopte

Apache Kafka service design for low latency and no data loss

Designing a production service environment around Apache Kafka that delivers low latency and zero-data loss at scale is non-trivial. Indeed, it’s the holy grail of messaging systems. In this blog post, I’ll outline some of the fundamental service design considerations that you’ll need to take into account in order to get your service arch

Canonical announces new enterprise-grade Ubuntu images designed for Intel IoT platforms

The optimised Ubuntu images target industrial computing on next-gen Intel SoCs 15 November 2022: Canonical announced today the availability of new enterprise-grade Ubuntu images designed for next-gen Intel IoT platforms. Purpose-built for industrial environments and use cases, the latest Ubuntu images on Intel hardware deliver the perform

Hold your horses, I mean snaps! New feature lets you stop snap updates, for as long as you need

One of the core aspects of the snap ecosystem is the built-in, robust auto-update mechanism. Whenever there is a snap update available in the Snap Store, the snapd service will apply it, keeping your software patched and up to date. Most of the time, this works great. In some scenarios, though, this may not be

Canonical at AWS re:Invent 2022

AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. The in-person event features keynote announcements, training and certification opportunities, access to technical sessions, and so much more. Canonical is proud to sponsor AWS re:Invent this year and have presence on the Expo. Jo


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How can the financial services sector tackle cloud concentration risk?

The use of cloud computing by financial institutions has significantly increased in the last few years, a trend that was further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the next few years, financial institutions will need to continuously balance the pressure to innovate quickly while managing risk and combating financial crime.  Accordin

Join us at UbuCon Asia in Seoul this November!

You are invited to UbuCon Asia 2022 (Nov 26–27) in Seoul, in-person for the first time, where the autumn leaves are beautiful and ripe.

Rencontrez Canonical à Cloud Expo Europe Paris 2022

Le salon leader de Londres, Paris, Francfort et Singapour ouvrira ses portes aux leaders du business tech à Paris les 16 & 17 novembre 2022. Retrouvez Canonical au stand F42, Hall 3 pour tout savoir sur nos technologies cloud, y compris les services et applications cloud, ainsi que les services multi-cloud et infogéré. Accédez à

Canonical Presence at RISC-V Summit 2022

RISC-V Summit is a premier annual event that will bring together the RISC-V community for a multi-track conference, tutorials, exhibition, and more. It will be both an in-person event taking place in San Jose and a virtual event from December 12th to December 15th.  Canonical is proud to sponsor RISC-V Summit again! Welcome to meet

What is object storage?

Object storage is a type of storage where data is manipulated as distinct units. It has accompanied the cloud computing revolution, with S3 (Simple Storage Service) being the very first AWS service. The API for which later turned into the industry standard for the majority of object stores. Object stores have a very simplistic interface,

Canonical to attend Supercomputing 22

Discuss your HPC and supercomputing needs with Canonical at SC22

Azure pricing explained

Have you ever wondered how Azure pricing actually works? So, you’ve decided to use Azure as your primary cloud platform and want to calculate your infrastructure costs. You estimate them based on listed prices, and rest assured that your startup/project will meet its budget. And then, suddenly, at the end of the month, you receive

Charmed Kubeflow now integrates with MindSpore

The integration allows users to leverage deep learning for AI/ML projects within the MLOps platform On 8 November 2022, at Open Source Experience Paris, Canonical announced that Charmed Kubeflow, Canonical’s enterprise-ready Kubeflow distribution, now integrates with MindSpore, a deep learning framework open-sourced by Huawei.  Charmed Ku


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