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Open source telecom quarterly – new format

Open source telecom quarterly – new format

Scale and complexity brings similar challenges, big or small. Hybrid cloud, public cloud, on-prem only large datacenter or highly distributed infrastructure are all on the radar of telecom service providers. In order to meet any current or future use-cases, from OpenRAN, next generation Core (5G and beyond) or AI at the edge you need to […]

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Cybersecurity with ubuntu

Cybersecurity with Ubuntu

The cybersecurity state of affairs can be described as too complex today. There is an enormous number of threats endangering sensitive data for the average IT team to cope with. Threats ranging from exposure of physical assets stored in an office, to “social engineering” attacks resulting in unauthorized access, or even threats that exploit obscure

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Cloud paas through the lens of open source – opinion

Cloud PaaS through the lens of open source – opinion

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

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Model-driven observability: taming alert storms

Model-driven observability: Taming alert storms

In the first post of this series, we covered the general idea and benefits of model-driven observability with Juju. In the second post, we dived into the Juju topology and its benefits with respect to entity stability and metrics continuity. In this post, we discuss how the Juju topology enables grouping and management of alerts,

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Winners of the 21. 10 wallpaper competition

Winners of the 21.10 Wallpaper competition

Congratulations to our winners! With over 200 submissions and several hundred voters, the competition was tough. But, the votes are in, and here are the winning wallpapers. The first two make it into the official release 21.10 image and are automatically entered into the runnings for 22.04. The other eight you see here will be

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Dataops: keeping the data flowing with model-driven operations

DataOps: keeping the data flowing with Model-driven Operations

Prologue: why is DataOps so hard? If you’ve ever lived DataOps, you’ll know that it’s a challenge at the best of times. A day in the life of a typical data engineering team involves securing, releasing, debugging and stabilising complex and oftentimes fragile data pipelines. These pipelines can involve many source applications and intermediaries, and

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Ros docker; 6 reasons why they are not a good fit

ROS Docker; 6 reasons why they are not a good fit

The Robot Operating System (ROS) has been powering innovators for the last decade. But as more and more ROS robots are reaching the market, developers face new challenges deploying their applications. Why did we start using ROS & Docker? Is it convenient? Does it solve our challenges? Or is it simply a tool from another

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Atresmedia modernises spain’s most popular streaming platform with canonical charmed kubernetes

Atresmedia modernises Spain’s most popular streaming platform with Canonical Charmed Kubernetes

The streaming service for the leading communication group in Spain leaves behind outdated applications and adopts a microservices architecture enabled by Canonical.  SPAIN, August 24, 2021— Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announces that Atresmedia, the leading company in the Over-The-Top (OTT) services market in Spain, selected its Charmed Kubernetes to build a new microservice-based architecture

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Kubernetes fully managed – half the cost of aws

Kubernetes Fully Managed – half the cost of AWS

How can you run a fully managed Kubernetes in a private cloud at half the cost of Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)? AWS – the leading public cloud provider Amazon has been leading the Gartner magic quadrant of the cloud infrastructure & platform services (CIPS) for 11 years with its endless innovation and wide portfolio

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