Blog posts written by James Nunns

James Nunns
3 October 2018

Fing: future-proofing Fingbox the IoT home network monitoring device

Internet of Things Webinar

As many as 20.4 billion internet of things devices are estimated to be in use by 2020, according to Gartner, with consumer products making up 63% of this figure. A large amount of these will be low-cost devices, rushed out by manufacturers in order to capitalise on this opportunity. Unfortunately, this method typically pays no ...

James Nunns
2 October 2018

How to build and deploy your first AI/ML model on Ubuntu

Cloud and server Webinar

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have stolen the hearts and minds of the public, the press and businesses. The technological advances in the field have helped to transport AI from the world of fiction, into something more tangible, and within touching distance. However, despite the hype, AI in the ‘real world’ isn’t qu ...

James Nunns
20 September 2018

Ubuntu does Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

Kubernetes: the tech industry has become pretty well versed in talking about what has become one of the biggest technology trends in the past few years with most claiming some involvement in it. Canonical also does Kubernetes, but not in a ‘me too!’ kind of way. The Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is pure upstream ...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Financial services: escaping the burning platform

Cloud and server Article

The financial services industry is standing on a burning platform, it’s time to jump to safety or suffer the consequences. The platform in this picture is the legacy infrastructure that dominates their IT organisations. From ageing servers and a dwindling workforce that’s even capable of running these monoliths, the pressure to change, fo ...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Robots that run Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

The home for innovators, Ubuntu is a place where developers can create what previously lived solely in the realms of fiction. The internet of things, the cloud, and robots are world changing technologies and they’re all running Ubuntu. With an estimated worldwide spending figure of $103bn by 2020, according to IDC, the field of robotics ...

James Nunns
11 September 2018

What is multi-cloud?

Cloud and server Article

Tech companies, Canonical included, have a problem. That problem is living in buzzwords and jargon, and then assuming everyone knows what we are talking about. At Canonical we call them ‘Canonicalisms’, other companies have their own names for it. Whilst we can joke about it, this over-reliance on jargon is a genuine barrier to our ...

James Nunns
19 June 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI and Blockchain

Cloud and server Article

How do financial services organisations evolve so that they are no longer seen as cumbersome Goliaths unable to keep up with the pace of change? The answer has its roots at both an infrastructure level, where legacy technology is being replaced with something more akin to what is seen in challengers banks or in technology ...

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