Why the world’s largest digital signage networks use Linux

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 reaches the end of life (EOL) on the 31st of May 2021. While existing customers can gain an additional 11 months by migrating to SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9, it will reach EOL soon too. After this period, SUSE OpenStack Cloud support will be discontinued according to their announcement from 2019. Thus, if you are a SUSE OpenStack Cloud customer, it is a high time to start putting a migration plan together.

As major organisations migrate and continue to build, test and deploy across open source technologies, security of those platforms is always top-of-mind. With Ubuntu, security is built in from its foundation, making it a popular Linux distribution used by developers and a secure platform for production environments across any multi-cloud infrastructure.

The Ubuntu security team at Canonical is constantly working to review threats, fix vulnerabilities and upgrade security capabilities for releases to protect your systems and mission-critical workloads.

Get the full Ubuntu security story and see how our teams are securing Ubuntu systems across open, multi-cloud infrastructures.

In this webinar, join our team to learn how:
- Ubuntu is built with security in mind from the ground up, and how we keep you protected against major vulnerabilities
- How you can ensure performant open source in production environments
- Specific security services that can help you achieve maximum availability by reducing downtime and providing access to high and critical CVE fixes
- Ubuntu helps organisations remain compliant with government and industry standards and regulations, including Common Criteria EAL2 with FIPS 140-2 Level 1 certified crypto modules

In an ideal world, applications would be free from security vulnerabilities but, once compromised, even a trusted application can become untrustworthy. AppArmor provides a crucial layer of security around applications. By providing the capability to whitelist an application’s permissible actions, AppArmor enables administrators to apply the principle of least privilege to applications. Once in place, AppArmor can halt attacks and minimise or prevent damage in the event of a breach.

In this webinar you will learn:
- Why a ‘defence in depth’ strategy should be employed to mitigate the potential damage caused by a breach
- An explanation of AppArmor, its key features and why the principle of least privilege is recommended
- The use of AppArmor in Ubuntu and snaps

Many organisations utilise managed service providers for IT infrastructure and application performance and reliability at scale. With current economic times forcing companies to also rely on outsourcing to reduce costs with infrastructure and app operations, it is critical to ensure standards of excellence are met and exceeded.

This assurance is provided by the MSPAlliance® Cyber Verify (MSPVC) certification program, which reviews a set of evaluated criteria in order to certify cloud and managed IT solution providers. Customers engaging with companies that are a part of the MSPCV certification and rating can rest assured that their IT solution provider has achieved extremely high standards dealing with Corporate Risk Management, data privacy, security and integrity, and physical security, alongside many more standards and corporate practices.

In this webinar, join our team to learn how:
- Issues with managed service providers and cyber security risks
- The Cyber Verify standards and control objectives behind their certification process
- MSP Verify and SOC 2 Type 2 examination and Canonical’s certification
- How Canonical achieved the Cyber Verify AAA rating, one of very few in the global MSP community

L'infrastruttura è un componente critico quando si consente ai team AI / ML di produrre i risultati più rapidi e preziosi per problemi di elaborazione ad alte prestazioni, massimizzando al contempo l'utilizzo delle risorse. Le capacità di ricerca possono essere accelerate per affrontare carichi di lavoro complessi sfruttando le workstation e i server appositamente costruiti che risolvono problemi hardware correlati, dalla prototipazione sulla workstation alla distribuzione e scalabilità sul server.

Learn how to set up a Pi-Hole instance with a single command and a cluster of Raspberry Pis on MicroK8s. High availability, load balancing and Kubernetes configuration included.

The Raspberry Pi 4 brings the graphics, RAM and connectivity needed for a Linux workstation, so why not use a cluster to set up your own Pi-Hole, the open source network-level ad blocker that acts as a DNS sinkhole or DHCP server.

Or follow along to learn more about MicroK8s, here we’ll highlight the how's and the why's of high availability that came with MicroK8s 1.19 along with the use cases of lightweight Kubernetes.

In modern PC-based platforms, UEFI Secure Boot is used to protect the integrity of the boot process by ensuring that only authorized code is allowed to run during this critical time. If unauthorized code can run during the boot process, the operating system itself and the security guarantees it tries to provide can no longer be trusted. In April 2020, a security vulnerability in the GRUB2 bootloader allowing arbitrary code execution was disclosed to the GRUB2 maintainers and a number of other affected parties. Although the fix to the code itself was simple, only one line, complications with both the UEFI Secure Boot implementation and ecosystem necessitated a complex, industry-wide mitigation effort. Revocation, new shim review process, additional vulnerabilities found and fixed, and more. We'll discuss the problems we encountered and overcame as well as areas for future improvement from the perspective of the security researchers, the GRUB upstream maintainers, and the Linux distributions.

Join the Ubuntu Masters telegram channel to connect with Ubuntu product managers, engineers and other attendees! https://t.me/joinchat/JOsc1hzTAhbAfjBX1fsqLA

In order to fully benefit from Industry 4.0, the classic boundaries between operational technology like machine controls, the IT world and the Internet of Things need to be overcome. This session will explain how Bosch Rexroth approaches this with its new complete automation solution ctrlX AUTOMATION which is based on Linux with real-time extension, consistently open standards, app programming technology, web-based engineering and a comprehensive IoT connection.

Join our Ubuntu Masters telegram channel to speak with Ubuntu product managers, engineers and other attendees! https://t.me/joinchat/JOsc1hzTAhbAfjBX1fsqLA

Data professionals were caught by surprise when IT shops started to introduce VMs for SQL Server workloads 15 years ago. As it usually happens with new technologies, there was some hesitation at the beginning; however, it was a quick turnaround until they become the standard today. So, you may ask yourself today, are containers going down the same road? Do I have to be prepared for this containers / Kubernetes thing?

The answer is yes! Containers are not necessarily a replacement to VMs or whatsoever. In reality, they will make an excellent addition to your technology stack that could help you to solve software problems.

This session will provide you best practices, methods, and practical solutions to help you manage your SQL Server workloads on Kubernetes hosted in Ubuntu whether on-premises using MicroK8s or cloud services like AKS.

You will be able to use Kubernetes to perform near to zero downtime version upgrades, set up high availability, and accomplish agile database deployments at the end of this session.

In this webinar, Canonical and Mavencode partner to explore the application of Machine Learning in an industrial processing plant where we try to determine the mean-time to failure, detect anomaly and recommend prescriptive maintenance for failure prevention and downtime reduction.

Mavencode will start by detailing how new tools like Kubeflow can be used to accelerate the time from model development to deployment in a real world scenario. Using anomaly detection and machinery failure prevention as a use-case, we will go over an architectural overview on how to get from data to actionable insight.

Finally, Canonical will discuss how you can tame the complexity of cloud-native projects such as Kubeflow through the concepts of charms, operators and application lifecycle management.

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Xenial Xerus, one of the most popular Ubuntu releases, has been available since 2016 - with many organisations adopting it for enterprise use. In April 2021, this LTS release will enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) period and transition from its standard, five-year security maintenance window. This webinar will explain its move to ESM and provide a guide to key considerations when planning a migration.

In this webinar you will learn:

- What is ESM and the extended security maintenance period?
- A guide with six key considerations when planning a migration from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- How to keep your 16.04 LTS systems in production secure while you plan you migration path

Open source software is everywhere and has become a critical part of the modern economy. It has been estimated that open source software components constitute 80-90% of any given piece of modern software. More and more financial institutions are building enterprise applications using open source components. The real draw of open source for most financial institutions today, is the ability to explore and innovate with new technologies and to easily scale the solutions that deliver real competitive advantage.

Open source ecosystem is growing rapidly and with widespread adoption comes its own set of challenges. Financial institutions are realising the overhead of open source technology estate maintenance and day-N operational challenges. One of the ways to address these challenges is for organisations to offload the complexity and time-consuming tasks of day to day operations and maintenance of open source applications to managed service providers.

This webinar aims to answer some of the key questions faced today by financial institutions across the globe in their open source adoption journey.

- Why is open source the key to agility and innovation ?
- What are the benefits and challenges of the open source ecosystem?
- How managed open source can help financial institutions deliver business value?

Watch this webinar to understand how financial institutions are leveraging managed service for open source and gaining freedom from application maintenance and day to day operations to adapt, innovate and transform at speed.