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Giulia Lanzafame
3 October 2024

What is a vector database?

Data Platform Article

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, tabl ...


Jehudi
2 October 2024

Ubuntu powers Azure’s confidential AI offering

Ubuntu Article

Microsoft Azure’s confidential virtual machines, powered by Ubuntu and featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, offer enhanced security for AI workloads. Discover how this technology addresses data privacy concerns in sectors like healthcare, finance, and government while ensuring robust AI performance and regulatory compliance. ...


Hugo Huang
2 October 2024

Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel® TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security

Ubuntu Article

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 ...


Andreea Munteanu
2 October 2024

Canonical joins OPEA to enable Enterprise AI

AI Article

Canonical is committed to enabling organizations to secure and scale their AI/ML projects in production. This is why we are pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a project community at the Linux Foundation focused on enterprise AI using open-source tooling. What is OPEA? OPEA is a project ...


Gokhan Cetinkaya
30 September 2024

How to deploy AI workloads at the edge using open source solutions

AI Article

Running AI workloads at the edge with Canonical and Lenovo 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, com ...


Cedric Gegout
30 September 2024

The waiting game is over. 5G is coming to the edge.

Telecommunications Article

Canonical and Omdia’s report reveals that 96% of CSPs will launch commercial 5G edge computing within 2 years. In this blog, we examine the drivers behind this optimism. ...


Stephanie Domas
30 September 2024

What the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) means for IoT manufacturers

Compliance Article

The EU Cyber Resilience Act has considerable repercussions for the IoT device manufacturers. In this blog, we explore these new regulatory requirements and give our blueprint for compliant, market-ready devices. ...


Rawand Benour
27 September 2024

AI in Healthcare: 5 Use Cases and 1 challenge

Ubuntu Article

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 in ...


Luci Stanescu
26 September 2024

CUPS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Fix Available

Ubuntu Article

Four CVE IDs have been assigned that together form an high-impact exploit chain surrounding CUPS: CVE-2024-47076, CVE-2024-47175, CVE-2024-47176 and CVE-2024-47177. Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed, cups-filters, libcupsfilters and libppd packages for all supported Ubuntu LTS releases. The updates remedi ...


Serdar Vural
26 September 2024

5G mobile networks: A driver for edge computing

5G Article

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 drawin ...


Canonical
25 September 2024

Charmed OpenSearch enters general availability

Apps Article

Today, Canonical announced the release of Charmed OpenSearch, an enterprise solution for OpenSearch® with advanced automation features, multi-cloud capabilities, and comprehensive support. OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that developers use to build solutions for search, observability, security analytics, generativ ...