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Samuel Cozannet
27 March 2017

Job concurrency in Kubernetes: LXD and CPU pinning to the rescue

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A few days ago, someone shared with me a project to run video transcoding jobs in Kubernetes. During her tests, made on a default Kubernetes installation on bare metal servers with 40 cores & 512GB RAM, she allocated 5 full CPU cores to each of the transcoding pods, then scaled up to 6 concurrent tasks ...

Canonical
27 March 2017

Bare metal server provisioning is evolving the HPC market

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

  In the early days of High Performance Computing (HPC), ‘Big Data’ was just called ‘Data’ and organizations spent millions of dollars to buy mainframes or large data processing/warehousing systems just to gain incremental improvements in the manipulation of information. Today, IT Pros and systems administrators are under more pressure th ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
27 March 2017

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise quickly followed by the question: ‘Ubuntu is what I run on my desktop, not on my embedded systems. Why is Ubuntu at an embedded show?’ First of all ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
27 March 2017

Video tutorial: learn how to install MAAS

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

This short video offers step-by-step instructions on how to install MAAS (Metal as a Service) to your machine. Before you start you’ll need: One small server for MAAS and at least one server which can be managed with a BMC. It is recommended to have the MAAS server provide DHCP and DNS on a network the ...

Canonical
23 March 2017

Huawei and Canonical integrate OpenStack and CloudFabric

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Huawei Extends its Cooperation with Canonical with the Integration of CloudFabric Data Center Network Solution and Ubuntu Cloud Solutions Hannover, Germany, March 23, 2017 – Huawei and Canonical today announced they are expanding their cooperation in enterprise and telecom clouds to announce that they have completed the integration of Clo ...

Canonical
23 March 2017

Out of date software leaves you vulnerable

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Two weeks ago, Der Spiegel wrote an article highlighting that out of date software on private clouds was leaving government and political party information vulnerable to being hacked. Given that political organisations being targeted is currently such a hot topic, it is somewhat of a surprise how widespread this issue appears to be. After ...

Canonical
22 March 2017

Webinar: How to ensure the ongoing security compliance of Ubuntu 12.04

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Many enterprises still run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but updates will end soon. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users are encouraged to upgrade to 14.04 LTS or 16.04 LTS. For some this is easy but for others, particularly for larger deployments, upgrading can be complex. Watch this on-webinar to learn: How Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users will be impacted ...

Kyle Fazzari
22 March 2017

Distributing a ROS system among multiple snaps

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

One of the key tenets of snaps is that they bundle their dependencies. The fact that they’re self-contained helps their transactional-ness: upgrading or rolling back is essentially just a matter of unmounting one snap and mounting the other. However, historically this was also one of their key downsides: every snap must be standalone. For ...

Guest
21 March 2017

When products and digital signage speak the same language

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This is a guest post by Dominique Guinard, Co-founder & CTO at EVRYTHNG. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Digital signage is booming. From stores to offices and public buildings, screens are now commonplace. This is a domain our partner Screenly masters, managing 10,000 screens and ...

Thibaut Rouffineau
20 March 2017

Three flaws at the heart of IoT security

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

This blog has been syndicated from SCMagazine UK, contributed by Thibaut Rouffineau – head of devices marketing. According to the latest estimates by Gartner, the total number of connected devices will reach 6.4 billion by the end of this year. From connected homes, to autonomous vehicles, to futuristic smartdust, the Internet of Things h ...

Canonical
16 March 2017

The Orange Pi community gets a snap store

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

Shenzhen Xunlong Software partners with Canonical to build the Orange Pi App Store Developers can distribute their applications packaged as snaps to Orange Pi owners Hackers and tinkerers can install complex IoT and server projects in seconds Shenzhen Xunlong Software benefits from the existing snap community through the branded store off ...

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