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Blog posts tagged
"Open source"


Canonical
28 March 2022

Firmus Supercloud sets a new standard for sustainable cloud computing with Canonical’s open infrastructure

Cloud and server Article

March 29th, 2022—Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Firmus, the Australian cloud infrastructure provider that is revolutionising data centre technology, has built its ultra-efficient and sustainable public cloud on Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes. Data centres are responsible for a staggering 2% of glo ...


Kris Sharma
21 February 2022

Open source Machine Learning toolkit for financial services

Financial Services Article

The financial services sector is adopting Artificial Intelligence technologies at a growing rate. Areas such as asset management, algorithmic trading, credit underwriting, blockchain based finance solutions, fraud detection and claims processing have all seen increased adoption of Machine Learning to drive more robust data-driven decision ...


Kris Sharma
20 October 2021

Finserv open source security

Financial Services Article

The fintech ecosystem is flourishing and exciting things are happening these days at the intersection of digital technology and financial services – thanks in part to an infusion of global fintech investment that reached US$98 billion across 2,456 deals in H1’21. This far outpaces last year’s annual total of $121.5 billion across 3,520 de ...


Canonical
13 September 2021

Enterprise Open Source Summit: A Business Perspective on Open Source

Canonical announcements Article

November 10, 2021 Canonical, Nextcloud, Collabora, Linbit, OpenNebula and Factor Group will present business perspectives on the use of open source in enterprise environments at the Enterprise Open Source Summit event scheduled for November 10, 2021. Open source solutions are becoming increasingly popular in all areas of business as an im ...


robgibbon
30 August 2021

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion

Data Systems Article

Opinion piece by Rob Gibbon – Product Manager at Canonical. All views expressed are the author’s own. The open source perspective viz. PaaS Open source software, as the name suggests, is developed in the open. The software can be freely inspected by anyone, and can be freely patched as required to suit the security requirements ...


Kris Sharma
9 August 2021

Open source in Banking – Building the bank of the future, today

Financial Services Article

Banking is at a pivotal moment. New regulations like virtual banking licensing frameworks, advances in open banking and big techs rapidly gaining ground in financial services, are dramatically changing the banking landscape, forcing incumbents to reinvent themselves. To be successful, the bank of the future will need to embrace emerging t ...


Kris Sharma
6 July 2021

Finserv open source infrastructure powers digital transformation

Financial Services Article

Covid-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges and opportunities for financial institutions to embrace digital transformation initiatives at pace and scale.  Finservs are enhancing their purview of digital transformation initiatives to stay relevant and create a technology foundation that enables them to quickly bounce back from ...


Canonical
23 June 2021

Canonical launches Blender LTS support

Canonical announcements Article

SMEs and studios can put the world’s most popular 3D creation software into production with Canonical enterprise-grade support. ...


Igor Ljubuncic
11 June 2021

What has snapd ever done for other distros?

Ubuntu Article

Snaps are self-contained applications designed with ease of use, security and portability in mind. They bundle their necessary dependencies, so they can work and run without modifications across numerous Linux distributions. How many? More than 40. Yet, often when technology is strongly associated with a particular product, in this case s ...


Leia Ruffini
25 May 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 25th of May 2021

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...


Leia Ruffini
13 May 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 13th of May 2021

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...


Lech Sandecki
9 March 2021

Open source enterprise support vs free open source use

Cloud and server Article

Many enterprises use open source enterprise support from a vendor, such as Red Hat or Canonical, to boost uptime and peace of mind. Others choose to use open source without any additional vendor support, relying on one of the major benefits of open source – the robust community support that is freely available. Oftentimes, those ...