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Sarah Dickinson

Sarah Dickinson

57 posts

Global Head of PR, IoT & Devices

Sarah manages IoT communications at Canonical. With a keen interest in technology, she has experience working in global B2B and B2C companies including Toshiba and Tektronix.

Sarah Dickinson
11 October 2017

elementary on why snaps are right for their Linux distro

Desktop Article

elementary is the company behind the elementary OS Linux distribution and the associated app store. Celebrating their tenth anniversary this year, elementary began in 2007 with their first release in 2011. They are currently on their 4th release (Loki) and are working towards their 5th (Juno) with Jupiter, Luna and Freya as previous relea ...

Sarah Dickinson
4 October 2017

Heroku as a snap: talking security, Snapcraft & daily updates

Desktop Article

Created 10 years ago and now owned by Salesforce, Heroku is a hosted cloud platform as a service (PaaS) which makes it easy for developers to run apps and services at scale. Heroku’s focus is on the developer experience and productivity. With that in mind, we caught up with Jeff Dickey (CLI Engineer) at the ...

Sarah Dickinson
31 July 2017

How to pick a winning IoT business model – Infographic

Internet of Things Article

The potential for IoT is huge but many businesses are still grappling with how it can benefit their organisation and how exactly to get started. Canonical recently surveyed over 360 IoT professionals to examine their current and future challenges plus opportunities that exist for organisations looking to become IoT ready. This infographic ...

Sarah Dickinson
12 July 2017

TechnoSec and Ubuntu Core help DE.OL transition to a smart factory

Internet of Things Article

The industrial internet of things market (IIoT) is estimated to reach US$ 195.47bn by 2022 according to Markets and Markets. A number of companies in this sector recognise the need to modernise their operations – DE.OL, an Italian company who design and manufacture hydraulic cylinders are one of these. Working with TechnoSec, an Italian I ...

Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

AZLOGICA use Ubuntu Core for customised IoT agricultural solutions

Internet of Things Article

Shrimps are now considered as the most lucrative seafood product with demand growing from consumers due to their high nutritional value. This is reflected in the export figures with the two largest exporters of shrimps, Ecuador and India, seeing increases of 7.6% and 10.8% respectively in the first half of 2016. Due to their perishable ...

Sarah Dickinson
3 July 2017

How Ubuntu helped InnovaPOS revolutionise the vending machine industry

Internet of Things Article

The smart vending machines market is on the rise with estimates of 2.7 million to be sold by 2020 with Asia Pacific predicted to be the fastest growing region with a CAGR of 15% over the same period. It is this opportunity that Spanish company InnovaPOS, founded in 2014, was created to spearhead. Their vision ...

Sarah Dickinson
17 May 2017

Ubuntu ranked as 2nd most used IoT OS by Eclipse Foundation survey

Internet of Things Article

Last week we posted a blog on programming languages following the Eclipse Foundation 2017 IoT survey results. This week we look at the findings from a business perspective which highlight a number of IoT trends emerging from the wide ranging survey from key industries, growth of new technologies, most common concerns and more. The 2017 ...

Sarah Dickinson
10 May 2017

Why language choices can be irrelevant when choosing the right IoT OS

Internet of Things Article

This is the first in a series of two blogs exploring the finding from the latest Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. A couple of months ago we posted a blog inviting developers to contribute to the 3rd Eclipse Foundation IoT Developer Survey. The 2017 results are now published with a total of 713 respondents, from all ...

Sarah Dickinson
24 April 2017

Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

Internet of Things Article

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of years of evolution in the industrial space especially. However traditional standardisation processes and proprietary implementations have been the norm. But the slow nature of their ...

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