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Secure your stack with Canonical | Open Source Cybersecurity

Oct 3, 2024 By Canonical In Canonical
Cybersecurity is an ongoing challenge for many enterprises, and safeguarding systems against evolving threats requires proactive, diligent security assessments and monitoring. Security and compliance is a challenge for organizations, with research showing that 84% of codebase contains at least one vulnerability and requires about 100 days on average to apply those fixes. In this video, Cédric Gégout, VP Product Management at Canonical, dives into the complexities of securing open source systems and company infrastructures, sharing insights from Canonical’s 20+ years of experience.
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What is a vector database?

Oct 3, 2024 By Giulia Lanzafame In Canonical
A vector database is a data storage system that organises information in the form of vectors, which are mathematical representations. These databases are designed to store, index, and query vector embeddings or numerical representations of unstructured data, including text documents, multimedia content, audio, geospatial coordinates, tables, and graphs.
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Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

Oct 2, 2024 By Hugo Huang In Canonical
In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data, and could pose a significant security risk, if not managed properly. But there’s a new way to protect your data: confidential computing.
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Ubuntu powers Azure's confidential AI offering

Oct 2, 2024 By Jehudi In Canonical
Microsoft Azure has announced the general availability of their confidential virtual machines (VMs) with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, powered by Ubuntu. This offering combines the hardware-based protection of AMD EPYC processors with NVIDIA’s latest GPU technology to enable secure and high-performance AI workloads in the cloud. Combining these technologies allows sensitive sectors to unlock AI adoption through addressing previous concerns of critical data privacy.
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What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers

Sep 30, 2024 By Stephanie Domas In Canonical
The EU Cyber Resilience Act is coming. I’ve talked about this piece of upcoming regulation in some depth before, having covered its background and stipulations in previous pieces on our website and for the Forbes Technology Council, and explored what it means for the businesses who consume open source in later articles (you can also read a version of this blog on Forbes).
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The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.

Sep 30, 2024 By Cedric Gegout In Canonical
Cédric Gégout (VP of Product at Canonical) reflects on a recent research report that Canonical published in collaboration with Omdia. The report uncovered that despite the lack of widespread 5G standalone infrastructure, enterprises, industrial actors and service providers are preparing for 5G edge computing to produce returns within two years.
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How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions

Sep 30, 2024 By Gokhan Cetinkaya In Canonical
AI is driving a new wave of opportunities in all kinds of edge settings—from predictive maintenance in manufacturing, to virtual assistants in healthcare, to telco router optimisation in the most remote locations. But to support these AI workloads running virtually everywhere, companies need edge infrastructure that’s fast, secure and highly scalable.
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AI in Healthcare: 5 Use Cases and 1 challenge

Sep 27, 2024 By Rawand Benour In Canonical
The accelerated developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence in healthcare have set the stage for some interesting transformations. By enabling better care for patients, optimizing processes, and generating new opportunities for medical research and treatment, these technologies are indeed going to change the healthcare industry radically.
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5G mobile networks: A driver for edge computing

Sep 26, 2024 By Serdar Vural In Canonical
Recently, a striking report published by Omdia and Canonical highlighted that 86% of communication service providers (CSPs) are optimistic about the future of edge computing on telco networks. This is a market that is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, with our report shedding light on the motivation that CPSs are drawing from the enhancements that 5G networks will bring.
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