--- title: Hybrid cloud & financial services- how to compete with new entrants description: Finance is moving an avalanche of change and facing cloud native new entrants. To keep up with the pace of change, financial organizations need to adopt new development methodologies, new technologies (AI & Blockchain) and ultimately new infrastructure (Hybrid cloud & Kubernetes). Tight regulation, legacy systems and inflexible software s […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/hybrid-cloud-financial-services-how-to-compete-with-new-entrants?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 2 December 2017 # Hybrid cloud & financial services- how to compete with new entrants [AI](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/ai) [blockchain](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/blockchain) [Business](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/business) [finance](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/finance) [Hybrid](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/hybrid) [Hybrid & Multi cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/hybrid-multi-cloud) [kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/kubernetes) [Regulation](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/regulation) --- Share the article Finance is moving an avalanche of change and facing cloud native new entrants. To keep up with the pace of change, financial organizations need to adopt new development methodologies, new technologies (AI & Blockchain) and ultimately new infrastructure (Hybrid cloud & Kubernetes). Tight regulation, legacy systems and inflexible software stacks leave many tied them down and unable to respond to the pressure to reduce costs & change at pace. In this presentation, Chris Kenyon will talk about how financial institutions are transforming into technology companies: * Making internal developers engaged & productive * Navigating the challenges of hybrid cloud in highly regulated environments. * Accelerating proof of value projects in AI / ML and Blockchain *This webinar was part of our [Ubuntu Enterprise Summit](https://ubuntu.brighttalk.com/summit/ubuntu-enterprise-summit/), December 2017.* [View Now](https://ubuntu.brighttalk.com/webinar/hybrid-cloud-financial-services-how-to-compete-with-cloud-native-new-entrants/) ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### Arduino® VENTUNO™ Q is available for pre-order with Ubuntu pre-installed](https://canonical.com/blog/arduino-ventuno-q-is-available-for-pre-order-with-ubuntu-pre-installed) London, UK – August 25, 2026 – Following our initial collaboration announcement in March 2026, Canonical and Arduino (a subsidiary of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.) are excited... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 25 August 2026 [### A look into Ubuntu Core 26: Building a local AI inference appliance in a virtual machine](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-core-26-ai-box) Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with this Core 26 release,... [Gabriel Aguiar Noury](https://canonical.com/blog/author/g-aguiar-noury) 16 June 2026 [### AI at the edge: simplifying infrastructure with Cisco and Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/ai-at-the-edge-simplifying-infrastructure-with-cisco-and-canonical) Legacy infrastructure was not designed for the requirements of the AI era. While large-scale model training remains centralized in data centers, test-time inference is rapidly... [Pedro Lazzarotto](https://canonical.com/blog/author/pedro-lazzarotto) 11 June 2026 [### What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-rdma-over-converged-ethernet-roce) Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to the same... [Benjamin Ryzman](https://canonical.com/blog/author/benjaminryzman) 9 June 2026