IT at Web Speed: How Cloud Computing can help your Business

In this latest instalment of the "IoT builder series" , azeti Networks, a software company with a strong focus on Industrial IoT and Automation, will be sharing the experience they have gained through projects in Telecommunications and Manufacturing. Are you planning IoT deployments in sites with difficult access, demanding requirements or with rough conditions? Are you looking to roll out smarter solutions to your remote assets?

A few things you'll learn from the webinar:

- 5 things to look out for when deploying solutions in harsh industrial environments
- Addressing challenges and requirements of industrial projects with IoT
- Finding your path through the IoT maze
- Using Ubuntu for industrial gateway deployments

IoT is being embraced by an increasingly diverse set of sectors and one which is reaping the benefits is the retail sector, specifically supermarkets and how they are using data in cold-chain (refrigeration) solutions. For this webinar, join Paul Edrich, CTO of IMS Evolve, who is helping major supermarket chains to manage billions of data points in real time to inform operational processes, reduce energy consumption and increase product quality.

This webinar will include the following topics:

- Refrigeration and IoT: problems, new industry trends and benefits
- What IMS Evolve does to solve the problem
- The technologies enabling their solution today

A webinar diving in the technology inside Ubuntu Core, the version of Ubuntu dedicated to IoT Hosted by Oliver Grawert, the Engineer behind the Ubuntu Core images for Raspberry Pi and DragonBoard,

What will you learn?
* Ubuntu Core in depth technical coverage
* Building an Ubuntu Core device image
* Packaging apps as snaps for IoT deployment

Are you working on an IoT, point of sale or digital signage device? Are you looking for a secure, supported solution to build it on? Do you have needs for graphic performance and complex UI? Did you know you could build great solutions using Qt on Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core?

To find out how why not join this upcoming webinar. You will learn the following:

- Introduction to Ubuntu and Qt in IoT and digital signage
- Using Ubuntu and Ubuntu Core in your device
- Packaging your Qt app for easy application distribution
- Dealing with hardware variants and GPUs

Please note: webinar registrants’ contact information will be shared with the co-presenter, The Qt Company.

It's nearing the end of the year! Time to take a breather and plan for 2017. As part of our 'IoT builders' webinar series, we have asked some of the most prominent technologists, community builders and visionaries in this space for their advice and practical predictions on what's worth working on next! Speakers include Dominique Guinard (CTO & Co-founder EVRYTHNG), Ian Skerrett (VP Marketing, Eclipse Foundation) and Maarten Ectors (VP, IoT at Canonical.) Join us on December 13th at 17:00 (GMT.)

In this webinar, the speaker will go through an explanation of the architecture, new features and use cases behind Ubuntu Core 16.

What you will learn:

★Lessons learned by Ubuntu in IoT and the need for a new approach to security and software management

★Choosing the right Operating System for your IoT devices, hardware choices and long-term maintainability

★How Ubuntu Core is being used by various partners to build solutions across home gateways, industrial, building automation and digital signage

Most embedded devices today never see a software update once shipped from the factory. Even if a software update is available, it's still very cumbersome to apply. More often than not, the update process is riddled with artifacts relying entirely on the end consumer. Given the complexities of keeping/maintaining the device, it's no surprise that adding to it capabilities with new software is challenging.
In this session, we are going to introduce novel ways to manage a device life cycle. This new paradigm of software design enables transactional updates, application isolation and security as fundamental building blocks.

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.

In this webinar, Nextcloud founder, Frank Karlitschek, will tell the story of the Nexcloud box, a secure self-hosted cloud and IoT platform that lets consumers take back control over their personal data. He'll go into detail about how they brought the device to consumers in just a few months and why they chose to use Ubuntu snaps to deliver Nextcloud to customers.

Frank Karlitschek is the founder of Nextcloud, founder of ownCloud, free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, photographer and founder of openDesktop .org - read more here http://karlitschek.de/about/

This webinar explores the convergence of Operational and Information technology as one of the key benefits of the Internet of Things; and how to use this convergence as a way to build a new generatin of integrated digital supply chains which are the base of Industry 4.0.

This webinar will cover the following topics:

* Industry 4.0 and IoT Trends
* Higher efficiency and productivity through end to end integrated digital supply chains
* New business opportunities for all players in the manufacturing supply chain
* Real life examples on industrial process improvements through the use of IoT

About the speaker: Jimmy Garcia-Meza is the co-founder and CEO of CloudPlugs Inc. He has over 20 years of experience running startups and large divisions in private and public U.S. multinational companies. He co-founded nubisio, Inc. a cloud storage company acquired by Bain Capital. He was CEO of FilesX, a backup software company acquired by IBM. He held various executive positions at Silicon Image (SIMG) where he was responsible for driving the world-wide adoption of HDMI. He was a venture director at Index Ventures and held several executive positions at Sun Microsystems where he has in charge of a $1.7B global line of business.

Join us to hear how a leading telco-focused startup is leveraging application modeling to accelerate and diversify NFV delivery. This webinar is a use case and integration journey, as explained by Matt Harper, RIFT.io's Chief Development Officer. Matt will talk about the analysis and decision to integrate with the deployment and encapsulation capabilities of Juju, Canonical's application modeling tool. He'll discuss how Juju has helped RIFT.ware, a standards-based orchestrator, leverage a model-driven framework to support multiple formats and scale to support massive numbers of VNFs and VMs, all in support of Open Source MANO, of which RIFT.io and Canonical are both founding members.

Sixteen:Nine editor Dave Haynes talks with two digital signage innovators Nikodem Lacki and Ebrahim Busheri.

Nikodem Lacki CTO of Boldmind, will be sharing his experience creating on-demand experiential advertising at retail malls and airports. Ebrahim Busheri, CEO of Lime SDR, will be explaining how Digital Signage players can double up as configurable 4G base stations.

Their discussion will see them touch on a variety of topics:
- Digital signage industry trends
- The disruptive effects of software and software on the industry
- New business opportunities for advertisers and screen owners
- Real life examples of innovative services launched across the world

This will is the second webinar in a series dedicated to exploring the changes that the new wave of IoT innovation is bringing to the digital signage industry.

Sixteen:Nine editor Dave Haynes talks with Viktor Petersson, CEO of Screenly, to explore his journey building a digital signage solution based on the very popular and very affordable Raspberry Pi. Their discussion will see them touch on a variety of topics:
- Digital signage industry trends
- The disruptive effects of the drop in hardware costs
- The adoption of agile software development and operations
- The start-up road to success
- This will be the first webinar in a series dedicated to exploring the changes that the new wave of IoT innovation is bringing to the digital signage industry.

Imagine if Google or Amazon went a year or two without updating their cloud or adding new features. OpenStack private clouds must interoperate and compete with public clouds at an economic and technological capabilities level. That means updating to the latest version of OpenStack as smoothly and quickly as possible. Fortunately, Ubuntu OpenStack is designed with exactly that in mind.

In this “don’t wait!” update, we review the key new features in OpenStack Mitaka. We’ll discuss why they’re important and what they do for your OpenStack cloud; updates like Live Migration, rolling upgrades, and Neutron role-based QoS, to name a few. We also talk about some of the tools that have helped make Ubuntu the platform for the vast majority of OpenStack installations.

*Key takeaways*
- The latest OpenStack has the stability improvements of all previous versions, there’s no need to wait to upgrade
- OpenStack Mitaka has scalability, resiliency and manageability improvements throughout all the core projects
- Ubuntu OpenStack and Canonical’s tools reduce time to initial deployment
- Upgrading to OpenStack Mitaka is a standardized process if you’re using MaaS and Juju
- Core features of Ubuntu have been updated or added to better support OpenStack Mitaka clouds, like LXD and ZFS

Come hear Mark Baker, Canonical’s OpenStack product and strategy lead, explain what’s new in OpenStack Mitaka, why those features are important, and how Canonical is delivering tools to make them easy to consume, and easily upgradeable. A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Canonical found that ease of expansion and upgradeability is the most important must-have for a cloud platform. Ubuntu OpenStack ensures you never get left behind the cloud curve.

Do you have or want to have a modern, agile, perhaps self-service, cloud infrastructure?
Are you struggling with or considering how many disparate workloads are deployed?
How will you gain useful insight into who's using which resources, and how do you appropriately charge users, departments, the customers of IT, for the resources they consume?

Even in a flat or no charge back model, the ability to analyse and, more importantly, predict consumption, is vital to managing and growing any sort of modern IT infrastructure.

With the rapid implementation and usage growth of modern clouds, it is vital that proper environmental analytics are gathered. Join Canonical and Talligent to learn how to measure and analyse business-critical consumption and cost data from a single to multi or hybrid cloud infrastructure. We'll discuss cloud computing in the context of BootStack, a managed OpenStack offering based on Ubuntu. Talligent's OpenBook software demonstrates how and why to perform cloud measurement, billing and potentially charge back.

Speakers:
John Meadows, VP of Business Development for Talligent, has an engineering background. He has worked on cost model development for software, provided direct input on virtualisation management systems for both software and hardware, and understands the importance of the intersection of operations, consulting, competitive analysis, and market alignment.

Arturo Suarez, Product Strategy for Canonical, has a background as a business analyst and IT director. He was a founding member of Stackops, an IaaS solution based on OpenStack. Arturo has experience building platforms for growing companies that need modern cloud and agile infrastructure and understands the balance between DIY and leveraging hosted solutions.

This session will demonstrate and discuss how to upgrade a running Ubuntu OpenStack cloud from Kilo to Liberty with little or no disruption to running workloads. Lots of real-world experience has made this possible, come and see how it's done!

Watch a live demonstration of running real workloads on OpenStack in containers and in KVM to compare performance. See how to deploy pure-container OpenStack for yourself. This presentation covers the pure-container hypervisor, LXD, and its integration with OpenStack Nova, enabling you to run an entire cloud with container-only guests for maximum performance.

Big data solutions involve many technologies working together. Whether it’s collection, analysis, or action, all of those components must be configured, their relationships defined, and deployed. In today’s dynamic data environment, the deployment is bound to change, need to be updated, or replicated. You need an infrastructure and tool set that keep your focus on the data. Flexibility in big data infrastructure automation, and examples of use cases are discussed in detail in this webinar.

Join us to explore how charming your software for Juju will launch your software business into the cloud, fast. Using real world examples, we’ll show you how forward thinking businesses are leveraging Juju and Charms to stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace. Don't miss the opportunity to hear about other software developers who are benefitting from the power of Juju.


GUEST SPEAKERS

Gabriel Samfira, Developer, Cloudbase Solutions,

Cloudbase Solutions is dedicated to interoperability and cloud computing. Their involvement in the OpenStack community and the development of the Hyper-V compute driver are a natural result of their experience on multiple environment, ranging from Microsoft infrastructures to Linux and BSD.

Gabriel has lead the development of charms for SMB, Windows 2012, Exchange, Sharepoint and SQL Server at Cloudbase.


Graziano Obertelli, Vice President of Engineering, AppScale Systems, Inc.

Graziano’s interest in cloud computing started with research in fault tolerant distributed systems at UCSD. Graziano co-founded Eucalyptus Systems in 2009. In 2014, Graziano left Eucalyptus to lead engineering and operations at AppScale. Graziano brings tremendous experience in management, software processes, quality assurance, system administration, customer support, and open source communities.