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James Nunns

James Nunns

11 posts

Marketing Manager

James Nunns
22 November 2018

Goodbye OpenStack, hello Open Infrastructure Summit

Cloud and server Article

We have reached the end of an era, the end of the OpenStack Summit, but we’ve started a new era – the beginning of the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical has been with the OpenStack Summit since its inception, designing, building, operating and supporting OpenStack private clouds on Ubuntu. We understand the importance of certainty, st ...

James Nunns
16 November 2018

Mastering the upgrading of OpenStack

Cloud and server Cloud

This past week the OpenStack Summit has been in Berlin with thousands attending the last of its name, given that it will soon be renamed the Open Infrastructure Summit. Canonical, as a founding member of the OpenStack community, was of course in attendance, speaking with attendees, hosting talks, presenting demos, and on stage delivering ...

James Nunns
12 November 2018

Using Juju to manage evolving complex software

Cloud and server Article

With developers increasingly moving towards microservices – and with the growing prevalence of the cloud as the default platform – software has become more complex than ever. While installing all of the interconnected applications that make up a modern software stack is becoming easier, the real sting in the tail comes on day two and ...

James Nunns
19 October 2018

Ubuntu events in November

Cloud and server Events

  November is just around the corner, winter jumpers are being dug out from the back of the wardrobe and it’s now acceptable to put the heating on. Although many may be considering hibernation, the Ubuntu team here at Canonical will be out and about around the world at a number of big events. So ...

James Nunns
12 October 2018

OpenStack Summit Berlin 2018

Cloud and server Cloud

Event Details Date: November 13 – 15, 2018 Location: Berlin, Germany Venue: CityCube Booth: B10 OpenStack Summit Berlin Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is excited to reveal that it will be a headline sponsor at the OpenStack Summit in Berlin. The OpenStack Summit has proven itself to be the leading event in open infrastructure, brin ...

James Nunns
8 October 2018

Ubuntu does OpenStack

Cloud and server Cloud

OpenStack, the open source cloud of choice for many businesses, has seen broad adoption across a large number of industries, from telco to finance, healthcare and more. It’s become something of a safe haven for highly regulated industries and for those looking to have a robust, secure cloud that is open source and enables them ...

James Nunns
5 October 2018

Ubuntu events in October

Canonical announcements Events

October is here, and along with Halloween, comes a number of big events for the Ubuntu team here at Canonical. Members of the Ubuntu team will be travelling across Europe and the US at a wide range events covering; Cloud, IoT, AI/ML and much more. So if you want to know where you can catch ...

James Nunns
20 September 2018

Ubuntu does Kubernetes

Cloud and server Article

Kubernetes: the tech industry has become pretty well versed in talking about what has become one of the biggest technology trends in the past few years with most claiming some involvement in it. Canonical also does Kubernetes, but not in a ‘me too!’ kind of way. The Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes (CDK) is pure upstream ...

James Nunns
13 September 2018

Financial services: escaping the burning platform

Cloud and server Article

The financial services industry is standing on a burning platform, it’s time to jump to safety or suffer the consequences. The platform in this picture is the legacy infrastructure that dominates their IT organisations. From ageing servers and a dwindling workforce that’s even capable of running these monoliths, the pressure to change, fo ...

James Nunns
11 September 2018

What is multi-cloud?

Cloud and server Article

Tech companies, Canonical included, have a problem. That problem is living in buzzwords and jargon, and then assuming everyone knows what we are talking about. At Canonical we call them ‘Canonicalisms’, other companies have their own names for it. Whilst we can joke about it, this over-reliance on jargon is a genuine barrier to our ...

James Nunns
19 June 2018

Emerging Trends in Financial Services: IoT, AI and Blockchain

Cloud and server Article

How do financial services organisations evolve so that they are no longer seen as cumbersome Goliaths unable to keep up with the pace of change? The answer has its roots at both an infrastructure level, where legacy technology is being replaced with something more akin to what is seen in challengers banks or in technology ...