Name: Why the world’s largest digital signage networks use Linux
Start: 2016-10-19T16:00:00Z
End: 2016-10-19T16:39:07.000Z
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Get the most in depth information about the Ubuntu technology and services from Canonical. 

Learn why Ubuntu is the preferred Linux platform and how Canonical can help you make the most out of your Ubuntu environment.

Consumer preferences on how they shop, purchase, and receive their products are rapidly changing and they expect companies to adapt to their new paradigm. The age of Omnichannel Retailing has arrived!

Retailers are evolving their systems to provide customers with equal access to their products from a variety of means - instore, kiosks, online - and leveraging AI at all levels to optimize the experience. 

To accomplish this transformation, the underlying infrastructure and operational models for data processing need to evolve.  In this webinar (the first of our "Omnichannel Enablement" series), we will touch on the key features needed in your infrastructure as you adapt it to support the new features and services required for true omnichannel service delivery.

If you want to learn more about Omnichannel enablement please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your needs with one of our advisors.

Omnichannel Technology Enablement for Retail

Welcome to this first episode of our new security of telecom infrastructure series.

Are you in the process of moving from VNFs to CNFs? Are you now deploying multiple Kubernetes clusters, both on the data center and edge but you have doubts about how secure it is? Would you like to know a recipe for a telecom grade kubernetes deployment, and more important - how to operate it for next 10 years, keeping it secure and enabling new features?

Then, this “Security of Telecom Infrastructure” series is for you. In this episode, we will introduce you to telco grade Kubernetes. We will be talking about Kubernetes for RAN, Core, OSS/BSS and public clouds as well, as they start to play a bigger and bigger role in hybrid cloud setups of service providers.

On this webinar, you will learn:
- How secure Kubernetes is this days 
- How to use Kubernetes in telecom domain
- On the edge - for RAN, OpenRAN, AI/ML inference jobs and more
- In the main data center - for your Core, OSS, BSS, SON needs
- In IT systems - CEM, data analytics, reporting 
- What the deployment options are
- How a secure architecture looks like for all of those use cases
- How to make sure that your setup stays secure in 10 years lifetime of the platform

Security of telecom infra: Intro to telco grade Kubernetes

Welcome to Chapter 2 of our webinar series Robot Makers. Together with the innovators, this series explores the journey, the challenges, and the enablers for robotics innovation. It provides an insight into each phase of a robotics business, from R&D spin out to a consolidated company. The series aims at providing a good mixture between technological development and entrepreneurship support. So, if you want to learn about robotics innovations, the people behind them, and their stories, this webinar is for you. 

Let’s get a deeper understanding of what the journey looks like for those who dare to create. 

Our second guest on the series is Dr. Conor McGinn, CEO of Akara Robotics. Conor is a pioneer in assistive robotics and was featured in the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35. Working in Trinity College he spinout Akara. The Irish company captured the public’s attention with their humanoid robot Stevie, a robot designed to support elderly care featured in TIME magazine. Today, their UV robot Violet was awarded more than €2.4M in funding through the highly competitive EIC program. The company has won several awards due to their work including recently the 2022 CIO & IT leaders awards for Pilot Project of the Year.  

Having completed seed and series A funding, Conor will share with us the challenges for robotics companies raising funding and its advice. Join us to explore the amazing story of this company. 

Chapter 2 is all about raising funding:  
- Explore the journey of raising funding for a robotics startup
- Get advice on the do and don’t when looking for investment opportunities
- Understand some of the implications that funding brings
- Discover two pioneer robots for the healthcare sector; Stevie and Violet

Robot Makers | Chapter 2: Interview with Akara Robotics CEO

US government agencies and organizations in government-regulated industries face a huge challenge in complying with regulations and standards in order to run their workloads. AWS GovCloud and Ubuntu make it much easier to deploy missions securely in the cloud whilst remaining compatible with compliance requirements.

At Canonical we have developed the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG), a compliance as code tool that helps you automate the process of auditing your Ubuntu VMs against the relevant DISA STIG or CIS profile and generate shell scripts to remediate any potential nonconformities. 

In this webinar we will look at what additional security measures Ubuntu Pro offers, and some of the extensive range of security features provided by AWS GovCloud for government and DoD agencies and contractors. We will show how to harden and audit your Ubuntu operating system for DISA-STIG or CIS requirements, and dive into how to use AWS security services like Amazon Inspector and Amazon GuardDuty.

Raising the bar on cybersecurity with Ubuntu for AWS GovCloud

Public clouds are great! Yet, many users are still reluctant towards moving their security-sensitive workloads away from their private data centers and into the public cloud, due to a set of legitimate security concerns: What if a hypervisor vulnerability allows other virtual machines to leak your private data? Or what if a rogue cloud provider employee with access to your physical machine backdoors your workflow?

To address these security challenges, encryption at rest and in transit is not enough. What we need is a way to perform a privacy-preserving computation that can protect the confidentiality and integrity of your workload in use. Confidential computing achieves this by running your workload in a hardware-encrypted execution environment, that is isolated from the cloud provider’s privileged system software (e.g. hypervisor, host OS, and firmware), as well as its employees.

By working closely with its public cloud provider partners, Canonical Ubuntu is ready for you to start your confidential computing journey today! To learn more, join us in this webinar where we will answer the following questions:

1) Why do we need security in use?
2) What are the different approaches to confidential computing?
3) How has Canonical Ubuntu enabled confidential virtual machines on Microsoft Azure?
4) What business use cases can your organization solve with confidential computing today?

Introduction to confidential computing on public clouds with Ubuntu

Ubuntu is the leading operating system for data science, with comprehensive language support and support for advanced AI/ML GPU-accelerated development environments with tools like NVIDIA CUDA.

Up until now, data scientists in a Windows-centric enterprise would have had to rely on dual-booting, secondary devices or cloud VMs to leverage Ubuntu in their workflows. However the cost and time delays of switching operating systems or transferring data between the two can significantly impact efficiency when it comes to data cleaning, exploration or early prototyping.

Ubuntu on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) offers a full Ubuntu development environment, deeply integrated with Windows, allowing users to leverage native Windows tools like VS Code and Docker Desktop inside Ubuntu WSL, and mix and match Linux and Windows Powershell commands across a shared filesystem.

In this webinar we demonstrate the benefits of this mixed ecosystem approach for day to day data science workflows, setting up an example pipeline and exporting results into a Windows-friendly format for stakeholders.

Cross platform data science workflows using Ubuntu WSL

NVIDIA vGPU Software enables data scientists and technical, and creative professionals to break through the constraints of hardware scalability, making highly performant GPU resources available on-demand for cloud users. Since more and more organisations are moving back to an on-prem infrastructure these days due to constantly growing public cloud costs, OpenStack with NVIDIA vGPU serves as a cost-effective alternative. Backed by joint commercial support from Canonical and NVIDIA, it is fully suitable for production environments with sophisticated AI/ML applications running on it 24/7.

During this webinar, our special guest speakers from NVIDIA will walk you through the internals of the NVIDIA vGPU Software. Later, we will introduce you to Charmed OpenStack and discuss the benefits that the platform brings in conjunction with NVIDIA vGPU technology. The webinar will follow with a brief demo during which we will demonstrate how to automate the enablement of NVIDIA vGPU Software in Charmed OpenStack and run sample workloads with highly performant vGPU resources attached.

Open Infrastructure for Data Science

In 22.04, Canonical announced a beta version of the Ubuntu kernel with the PREEMPT_RT patchset integrated. The new real-time kernel serves extreme latency-dependent use cases and provides deterministic response times to service events. By meeting stringent preemption specifications, real-time is suitable across a broad range of verticals, from telco applications to dedicated devices in industrial automation and robotics.

But does a real-time kernel necessarily result in optimized performance? And what would be the consequences of missing a deadline? If you are a Linux kernel enthusiast or just getting started with real-time systems and want to learn more about PREEMPT_RT, this webinar is for you.

This webinar will provide a broad overview of the target use cases and real-time applications. Starting with the building blocks, we will learn:

- What is a real-time system?
- What are the use cases of real-time across market segments?
- What is the role of the PREEMPT_RT patchset?
- How would one know if a low-latency kernel is acceptable over PREEMPT_RT?

And much more. Having set the stage and the necessary context in mind, we will then deep-dive into the Linux kernel build with the out-of-tree PREEMPT_RT patch applied.

An Introduction to real-time Linux

There has been a Cambrian explosion in open source. We have moved from Linux as a hobby project to it powering aroud half of Public Cloud workloads. Free and open source software is now so mainstream that Microsoft owns GitHub and surveys show 90%+ of enterprise codebases contain open source.

For developers and infrastructure builders, open source has accelerated innovation, letting them pull the building blocks for projects instantly at no cost while avoiding the lengthy procurement processes associated with paid software. In some cases, however, this has been at the expense of the organization properly determining a strategy around software provenance, security, support, and day-2 operations before incorporating the code. Ubuntu and Canonical have been at the forefront of putting open source software in the hands of innovators for more than 15 years, acting as a trusted conduit between distributed community developers and users to help bridge this gap. 

Docker containers/OCI images were a great addition to the ecosystem as they give developers a consistent way to ship software in a reliable, lightweight, and standardized way along with the entire software stack it depends on. In theory, operations teams can focus on deploying and life-cycle managing containers in their environment, without worrying about what’s inside. In doing that, however, they move responsibility like the security and provenance of that entire software stack to the application developer. Here, we see some of the same problems we have seen in the past. Do you know the software provenance and security story of the containers you have in production? Will the cutting-edge developer of today still be around in 10 years offering support and watching for security vulnerabilities in all of their app’s dependencies?  

Join Canonical to talk through these challenges and best practices in securing and supporting your open source supply chain on Azure, both in VM environments and when using containers.

Open-source supply chain on Azure | Microsoft OSS series

Active Directory (AD) is the most popular user and endpoint identity management system in medium and large enterprises. Ubuntu supported AD integration for a very long time, however this was limited to user authentication and did not allow to take advantage of the more advanced features like Groups Policy Objects and scripts.

With Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 we have listened to the sysadmin feedback and introduced ADsys, a new, groundbreaking client which enables the following functionalities:
Full Group Policy Object (GPO) support, natively baked into the OS 
Privilege management, giving you the possibility to execute tasks as a privileged account
Custom shell scripts execution for logon, logoff, startup and shutdown.

Join us on this webinar to learn more about the new AD integration features and discuss how we can help you manage your Ubuntu estate with the same tools you currently use to manage your Windows clients.

If you want to learn more about Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Advantage or our advanced Active Directory integration features please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your needs with one of our advisors.

New Active Directory integration features in Ubuntu 22.04

Join Lech Sandecki for his conversation with Ubuntu Server engineers Christian Ehrhardt, Chad Smith and Lena Voytek, as they discuss Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and host a live Q&A.
You will learn when to upgrade and how to plan for it, what the new capabilities are available and how the server roadmap is defined. You’ll also get a view of the coolest 22.04 LTS features.

What's new in Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS?

The 25th release of OpenStack, Yoga, sets a foundation for next-generation, highly performant infrastructure, using SmartNIC cards and integrating them with the Neutron Open Virtual Network (OVN) driver. Network-intensive services, such as telco NFV, media streaming, traffic analysis or HPC usually require high-speed packet processing to meet user demands. With OpenStack network components running on SmartNICs, those services now benefit from lower latency and higher throughput, effectively answering industry needs. 

During this webinar, Kendall Nelson — Senior Upstream Developer Advocate at the Open Infrastructure Foundation — will walk you through everything new in the upstream OpenStack Yoga. Later, Tytus Kurek — Product Manager at Canonical — who will cover all new features and extensions available in OpenStack Charms 22.04 release and highlight the benefits of running OpenStack Yoga on Ubuntu LTS. The webinar will follow with a brief demo by Frode Nordahl — Senior Engineer at Canonical — during which he will demonstrate how to configure Charmed OpenStack with OVN offloading to SmartNICs.

OpenStack Yoga: What's New?

Compliance with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) is an essential requirement for all DoD agencies or any organisation that is part of the DoD information network (DoDIN). Auditing and hardening systems at scale is often a complicated task, especially in air-gapped environments.

At Canonical we have developed the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG), a compliance as code tool that helps you automate the process of auditing your Ubuntu VMs against the relevant DISA STIG profile and generate shell scrips to remediate any potential nonconformities. The Ubuntu Security guide can additionally be deployed at scale in air-gapped environments with Landscape.

The webinar will cover the following topics:
DISA STIG auditing requirements for Ubuntu VMs
What is the Ubuntu Security Guide and how can you get it
DISA STIG auditing and hardening in air-gapped environment with Landscape
DISA STIG auditing and hardening in air-gapped environment with your own tools

If you want to learn more about the Ubuntu Security Guide, ubuntu Advantage or Landscape please do not hesitate to contact us at ubuntu.com/gov to discuss your needs with one of our advisors.

DISA STIG auditing and remediation in air-gapped environment

To keep pace with exponential data growth — in public and private clouds, and at the Edge — more enterprise and mid-sized data centers are turning to Ceph open source software-defined storage and Dell PowerEdge servers to address growing storage needs.

Join Canonical and Dell Technologies and learn how to create a capacity optimized storage cluster with Charmed Ceph and Dell PowerEdge servers.  

An overview of Canonical Charmed Ceph and Dell’s PowerEdge servers will be presented, along with a discussion of the considerations in deploying and scaling a storage cluster to meet user’s needs, both today at deployment, and scaling for future growth.

Ceph in the Modern Data Center: Canonical Charmed Ceph & Dell PE Servers

If you are working in AI or studying data science, then you might have heard about MLOps and be wondering what the buzz is all about. Data science is a rapidly evolving and maturing space and new techniques and technologies are emerging all the time to help amplify the productivity and maturity of data scientists’ work. MLOps is all about this.

MLOps is the natural extension of DevOps applied to AI and Machine Learning, adapting the advanced automation techniques of the pros to the new learnings and technologies that drive artificial intelligence and machine learning systems.

In this webinar, we will review how adopting a few key MLOps techniques can help you get the most out of your data science projects. We will examine some of the most popular MLOps techniques adopted by the leading industry players, and how you can adopt them too:

- Machine Learning pipelines
- Continuous deployment
- Inference services
- Blue-green deployments
- Automated drift detection
- Feature stores

Introduction to MLOps: Six proven techniques to amplify AI maturity

Kubeflow está generando un gran interés en todas las industrias como una tecnología para automatizar los flujos de trabajo en ciencia del dato, desde la extracción de datos hasta el monitoreo de modelos de producción. Sin embargo, Kibeflow se compone de más de 30 microservicios que deben implementarse, configurarse, mantenerse, integrarse y actualizarse de forma independiente siempre que haya una nueva versión de uno de los componentes.
En este seminario, lo guiaremos a través de algunos de los desafíos que se presentan a la hora de operar Kubeflow y cómo las últimas tecnologías de software y gestión del ciclo de vida pueden ayudar, es decir, los recientes model-driven operators.

En este webinar aprenderá:
- Cómo los desafíos de operar Kubeflow y las operaciones nativas de nube están evolucionando
- Qué son operadores de Kubernetes, Charms y OLMs y por qué están influyendo en la manera de llevar a cabo las operaciones de hoy en día
- Cómo los operadores basados en modelos pueden automatizar las operaciones del día-0 al día-2 de Kubeflow incluso en configuraciones complejas
- Qué es Charmed Kubeflow y cómo se puede implementar con la plataforma de Kubernetes que elija
Demo: Operaciones prácticas de Kubeflow

Guía de operaciones para Kubeflow

Embedded Linux development doesn't have to be a journey of anxiety. Ubuntu Core provides developers what a DIY Linux distro cannot give them: a faster time to market, and tested and trusted security and update strategies. Whether you are an engineer looking to understand the pros and cons of Yocto or are evaluating Ubuntu Core in your next project, this webinar is for you. 

What can you learn from this webinar?
- Key considerations when choosing the OS of an embedded Linux system
- The pros and cons of using Yocto for embedded systems
- How Ubuntu Core enables developers to focus on their value-add software
- How to get to market fast when using embedded Linux

Yocto Project and all related marks and logos are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. This presentation is not, in any way, endorsed by the Yocto Project or The Linux Foundation.

Yocto or Ubuntu Core for your embedded Linux project?

Starting a new IoT project could often feel like a challenge. Choosing the right hardware, software and making it all work together requires time and specialist skills. By identifying the typical problems encountered and the patterns that lead to success you can significantly improve project planning and delivery.

Avoiding the pitfalls of doing the same tasks every time from scratch will allow you to focus on solving the challenges that matter most to you and your business. IoT project maintenance and continuous software improvement become easier when using suitable technologies. 

Join us to find how Ubuntu Core, the IoT app store and snaps can help you on your IoT journey.

IoT Project Lifecycle

Sixteen:Nine editor Dave Haynes will talk with product manager, Jody Smith, from BroadSign about the story behind the company - an industry-leading digital signage CMS company that runs the largest and most successful networks worldwide. 

They’ll discuss the evolution of BroadSign, the vast networks they work with that include some of the largest media agencies, how Linux has helped them grow and the state of the industry.

Why the world’s largest digital signage networks use Linux

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