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AI Summer Camp | Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 4: AI on public cloud with open source This will cover: Scenarios in which open source tooling on public cloud solves a problem for AI initiatives Main benefits of using open source tooling on the public cloud for AI projects Use cases from our customers Hybrid cloud and multi cloud opportunities for AI projects.

AI Summer Camp | Episode 5: AI on private cloud in the hyperscalers era

Welcome to AI Summer Camp. Join 5 essential trainings on AI from Canonical experts and level up your skills while on holiday. Episode 5: AI on private cloud - why is it relevant in the hyperscalers era? This will cover: Why consider a private cloud for AI? Key considerations when building a private cloud for AI projects Performance acceleration options for private cloud Guidance for Kubernetes on OpenStack for AI initiatives.

Why OpenStack is the Best Solution for Your Cloud Strategy | Open Source Cloud Computing

Operating in the cloud has become the norm in today's business world. However, depending solely on public clouds can introduce several challenges such as increased costs, privacy issues, and performance limitations. Enter OpenStack, the world's leading open-source cloud platform. OpenStack empowers you to create your own cloud infrastructure, giving you control over your digital future.

What is the telco core network?

The telecommunications industry relies heavily on their core network, which is essential for enabling communication and data transfer. As technology advances and data demand increases, these core networks pose significant challenges. Telcos may face immense difficulties in ensuring fast data transfer, maintaining network reliability, and securing communications. At the same time, the transition to technologies like 5G adds to these challenges, requiring substantial infrastructure changes.

Build and test a LlamaIndex RAG application

LlamaIndex is a framework for building context-augmented large language model (LLM) applications. It enables you to augment the model with domain-specific data to customize it and improve its responses to your use case. You can use this framework to build a question-answering chat bot, a document understanding and extraction application, or an autonomous agent. The framework provides tools to ingest data, process it, and implement query workflows that combine data access with LLM prompts.

Building On-call: Continually testing with smoke tests

With the release of On-call, our system’s reliability had to be solid from the outset. Our customers have high expectations of a paging product—and internally, we would not be comfortable with releasing something that we weren’t sure would perform under pressure. While our earlier product, Response, was the core of a customer’s incident response process after an incident was detected, we’re now the first notification an engineer gets when something’s wrong.

Seamless Quality: Integrating Quality Control into Your CI/CD Pipeline

Integrating quality control into your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline is essential, especially with inspection software for quality control. This integration ensures that code changes meet high-quality standards before they reach production. Businesses can deliver robust software more efficiently by embedding quality control processes and utilizing inspection software within the CI/CD pipeline.

Optimizing Business Performance With Flexible IT Infrastructure

Is your business struggling to keep up with the ever-changing business landscape? Well, many companies find it challenging to adapt quickly to new technologies and market changes. But here's the good news: a flexible Information Technology (IT) infrastructure could be the key to boosting your business performance. With that said, here are a few tips on optimizing business performance with flexible IT infrastructure.

ROI of Reducing MTTR: Real-World Benefits and Savings

Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) stands as a critical metric when it comes to IT Operations and Incident Management. Reducing MTTR is not just a technical goal but a strategic business imperative, driving significant Return on Investment (ROI) through various tangible and intangible benefits. This blog delves into the real-world benefits and savings achieved by reducing MTTR, emphasizing its importance in contemporary business environments.