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Maarten Ectors

Maarten Ectors

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VP IoT, NG Networking & Proximity Cloud

Maarten Ectors is responsible at Canonical for Internet of Things, the next-generation of networking and cloud solutions that are in proximity of the user or at the edges of the network. Previously he was strategy director for cloud, big data and IoT. Maarten reports to Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Canonical.

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

The power of Software Defined Networking appliances – SDNA

Internet of Things Article

For Mobile World Congress we purchased the cheapest Intel server with 6 ports from the Amazon Store: After installing Snappy Ubuntu Core and working with partners like Microsoft, F5, Dataart, Cybervision, Forgerock, ARM, Balabit, Zabbix, etc. and the Ubuntu Core engineering team, the server became this: A switch, firewall and load balance ...

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

Uber meets IoT

Internet of Things Article

Thanks to Ninjablocks and their Ninjasphere, Uber meets IoT. Use gesture control to call for an Uber ride. Uber revolutionised the world of personal transport via an app on your mobile. Imagine the same power of apps onto any smart device in your home, business, city, etc. using the operating system you are already familiar with. ...

Maarten Ectors
8 April 2015

Predictive Maintenance on Industrial Turbines Explained via Duct Tape

Internet of Things Article

In the world of IoT all consultancy slides talk about predictive maintenance as being the “Killer Industrial IoT App”. However Dataart took the theory to a very easy to understand demo thanks to some duct tape. Via the use of a simple accelerometer and their open source DeviceHive solution on top of Snappy Ubuntu Core and ...

Maarten Ectors
27 March 2015

Autopilot Apps & Boards for Drones

Internet of Things Article

Drones are getting Snappy Autopilot Apps. On Indiegogo you can contribute to the PixHawk Fire (PXF). The PixHawk Fire (PXF) is an open hardware cape (daughter board) for the BeagleBone Black that allows you to create Snappy autopilot apps for drones. Behind the cape there is Erle Robotics, a startup based in Spain and led ...

Maarten Ectors
9 March 2015

Why Drones need Snappy Apps?

Internet of Things Article

Erle-Robotics just showed the world how Snappy Ubuntu Core can power the autopilot in their Erle-Copter drone and push drones to their limits. It is a really cool video but the message is a lot bigger. If you are a drone manufacturer or just a drone hobbyist, you might be an expert in building the ...

Maarten Ectors
11 February 2015

Ubuntu is Airborne

Internet of Things Article

Thanks to Erle Robotics Snappy Ubuntu Core is now airborne. See the first Ubuntu Core powered drone fly. Erle Robotics said the experience so far was amazing and Snappy Ubuntu is super lightweight. ...

Maarten Ectors
2 February 2015

Snappy Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 2

Cloud and server Article

“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu Core is available fo ...

Maarten Ectors
16 December 2014

Truphone uses Juju to demo world’s first telecom solution in minutes

Cloud and server Article

World’s first demo of live, open source telecom service runs in the cloud … and all in software Truphone‘s head of R&D together with TeleStax, Metaswitch and Canonical – have demonstrated the world’s first provisioning and operation of a cloud-based IMS core and application server for a live voting service using the Truphone network. Four ...

Maarten Ectors
3 September 2014

Instant Big Data and other solutions

Cloud and server Article

For each new technology that becomes trendy you can buy a book with an animal on the cover. The first chapters will guide you through installing, integrating and scaling the new technology. This was fine when software was just a couple of apt-gets away. With horizontally scalable solutions, micro-services, containers, PaaS platforms, Big ...

Maarten Ectors
31 July 2014

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju…

Cloud and server Article

Dialogic solves a WebRTC NAT problem for TADHack in days with Juju and now anybody can use the solution in minutes. Mid May Alan Quayle, the organiser of the first telecom application developer hackaton – TADHack, contacts Ubuntu and says that one of the sponsors suggested to setup a TURN and STUN server for the beginning of June event. T ...

Maarten Ectors
18 June 2014

Forgerock shows the future of instant identity integration with Juju

Cloud and server Article

Forgerock, the leading unified open source identity solution provider, showed on the Identity Relationship Management Summit how Juju is changing the future of identity integration. In minutes their identity solution gets integrated with other charms. Traditionally companies would need months to integrate single sign-on solutions. Forgero ...

Maarten Ectors
9 June 2014

Instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality

Cloud and server Article

At TADHack in Madrid, Metaswitch, Telestax and Canonical proved that instant telecom integration and NFV is now a reality. We showed that anybody can deploy, integrate and scale a telecom solution in minutes on any public cloud, private cloud or bare-metal server with Juju. Traditionally a telecom integrator installs an IMS in 12 months ...