Name: It's like a jungle out there: how to adapt your IT strategy for changing markets
Start: 2021-09-28T14:00:00Z
End: 2021-09-28T14:00:18.000Z
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Get the most in depth information about the Ubuntu technology and services from Canonical. 

Learn why Ubuntu is the preferred Linux platform and how Canonical can help you make the most out of your Ubuntu environment.

Ceph is the world’s most popular open source storage system, and offers efficiency features such as thin provisioning, copy-on-write snapshots, and compression to reduce the cost of storing data.  

Join Philip Williams (Canonical) and Yingxin Cheng (Intel) for this webinar. We will explore these features and how they can be used to reduce storage costs.  We will take an in-depth look at compression and explore how it can be used with object storage (S3), the caveats and pitfalls, and also explore how Intel’s Quick Assist Technology (QAT) offload can be used to maintain performance levels for minimal cost overhead.

Maximise your storage efficiency with Ceph

Recent changes at VMware have compelled existing customers to consider alternatives. Many have turned their eyes to open source, looking for total cost of ownership (TCO) reduction and no vendor lock-in. But as a lead architect or an infrastructure owner, you know that this is easier said than done.

Join our webinar on 11 June at 4:30 pm CET and learn how to move from VMware to the future.

From VMware to the future:
Cloud computing is now a central piece of enterprise IT estates. According to Gartner, overall spending on cloud infrastructure will approach 50% of organisations’ IT budgets by 2025. However, moving from VMware to the cloud comes with many potential challenges that only a well-educated and trained infrastructure team can handle with no friction. In this webinar, we’ll present Canonical’s proven path to data centre cloudification.

Gain another decade of stability:
Canonical’s open source infrastructure comes with long-term support, security, and price commitment. This means that a successful transition results in at least another decade of stability. Even though the migration process is usually more tricky than a simple click, full data centre and workload cloudification leads to tangible business benefits. Don’t trust empty promises set by alleged industry leaders and learn how to execute this transition the right way.

Join this webinar to learn:
1) What the future of the infrastructure is going to look like
2) Details of data centre and workload cloudification process
3) About Canonical infrastructure components and their functions
4) How to effectively migrate out of the VMware infrastructure

Modernising your infrastructure post VMware

Recent changes at VMware have compelled existing customers to consider VMware alternatives. Many have turned their eyes to open source. However, migrating from VMware is not an easy task, and it will involve some changes in how you’re managing your infrastructure.

You might’ve joined our previous webinar where we talked about open-source solutions as an alternative to VMware software. In this follow-up webinar, we will go into more depth. We will compare the features and discuss the differences between VMware and Ubuntu-based infrastructure, and then dive into a few example migration scenarios. The migration process and tooling are also very dependent on the kind of workloads you are running, as well as what kind of platform you want to migrate to. We will examine the migration of larger scale VMWare to OpenStack, as well as smaller scale VMware to our MicroCloud offering.

We will also discuss potential issues that can occur during migration due to the differences in the features and architecture, and how to overcome them. You can also utilise the migration as an opportunity to modernise your workloads, and ensure you are not dragging your outdated legacy systems into the future along with the high costs of maintaining them. We will briefly touch upon this topic as well.

In this session, we will cover:
1) What are the components of Ubuntu-based infrastructure
2) VMware vs Ubuntu: a feature comparison 
3) How to ensure a successful migration

VMware to Ubuntu: Your migration options

Move to the cloud, they said. It will be fun, they said.

So you decided to do so, but now you’re facing an eternal dilemma: use one of the existing public cloud platforms or build your own? You ask yourself more questions: Which option is more convenient for your use case? Which one is more cost-effective? How do you preserve digital sovereignty regardless of the choice?

These are all good questions. We will cover them in this webinar. However, what you’re really searching for is more elementary. It is about how you can make use of available cloud technologies to meet your organisations’ needs. In other words, how you can do computing, your way?

During this webinar we will show you a “do it yourself” approach to cloud infrastructure implementation. By using mature open source technologies we will demonstrate the path towards your own production-grade cloud, preserving digital sovereignty and ensuring cost-effectiveness, while maintaining the versatility provided by global tech giants.

OpenStack is the world's most popular open source cloud platform and its adoption continues to grow exponentially every year. It serves as an extension or a reasonable alternative to hyperscalers, effectively addressing cloud cost optimisation concerns. But at the same time, OpenStack adoption has always been a challenge. Hence through this webinar, we want to help you get started with OpenStack.

In this webinar we will:
1) Discuss the current status of the cloud computing market
2) Delve into the world of OpenStack - the most popular open source cloud platform
3) Walk you through OpenStack’s high-level architecture, its services and their functions
4) Teach you how to get started and break the ice with OpenStack immediately

What is OpenStack and why does it matter?

RAG offers a new way to maximize the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to produce more accurate, context-aware, and informative responses. Join Akash Shankaran (Intel), Ron Abellera (Microsoft), and Juan Pablo Norena (Canonical) for a tutorial on how RAG can enhance your LLMs.

The session will explore how to optimize LLMs with RAG using Charmed OpenSearch, which can serve multiple services like data ingestion, model ingestion, vector database, retrieval and ranking, and LLM connector.

We will also show the architecture of our RAG deployment in Microsoft® Azure Cloud. Notably, the vector search capabilities of RAG are enhanced by Intel AVX® Acceleration, delivering faster processing and high-throughput performance for the RAG workflow.

Quickly build and deploy LLMs with Retrieval Augmented Generation, featuring Intel Accelerators and Azure

In this walkthrough, Canonical Product Managers describe how to bring Entra ID authentication on Ubuntu Desktop at scale with Landscape, Authd, and cloud-init.

This talk will cover:
– A brief introduction of Authd, the new OIDC authentication daemon for Ubuntu.
– Authd’s capabilities and how to configure it for single sign on with Entra ID.
– How to automate Authd configuration using cloud-init.
– Landscape, what it is, and how it can be used to facilitate the above configuration and automation.
– How to take this solution into production using the additional security and compliance controls available with Ubuntu Pro.

Entra ID authentication on Ubuntu Desktop at scale with Landscape

Find out how you can apply a Defense in Depth approach with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu’s security offerings are much more than just a collection of tools: they are an ecosystem of layered defenses, each tuned to address specific threat levels and attacker capabilities. By understanding the unique threats each layer counters, you can make informed choices about which defenses are most important for your environment.


In this webinar, we will journey through the landscape of the security primitives and solutions that make up Ubuntu’s security in depth strategy, all through the lens of computational security:

Swift vulnerability response: Address known threats with Extended Security Maintenance, ensuring rapid patching and protection
Zero-day threat containment with AppArmor: Restrict applications to the bare minimum access they need, stopping attackers in their tracks
Regulated industry standards: FIPS-compliant cryptography and CIS benchmarks deliver system hardening tailored to your needs
Boot-level protection: Secure Boot enforces verified code execution, while Full Disk Encryption (FDE) protects sensitive data at rest
Next-gen isolation with confidential VMs: Technologies like Intel TDX and AMD SEV SNP create CPU-level isolation, safeguarding data even against hypervisor compromise or insider threats

What is Defense in Depth and how can you apply it with Ubuntu?

In today's dynamic business landscape, organizations need to be agile and responsive to changing demands. A robust VDI solution can be a game-changer, enabling you to empower your workforce and optimize your IT infrastructure. 

In this webinar on HPE Solutions for VDI with Canonical MicroCloud and HP Anyware, we will address the modern workspace challenges organizations face today. From strengthening security against data breaches and cyberattacks to optimizing IT infrastructure costs and empowering employees with seamless remote and BYOD experiences, our solution delivers unmatched performance and reliability. The solution is designed to redefine virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and elevate your workforce productivity while keeping costs and risks in check.

Learn more about the modern workforce challenges and how you can enhance security, improve scalability and get greater flexibility with HPE, Canonical and HP Anyware.

Unleash new ways of working with flexible, cost-effective VDI

Ensure data security and privacy in AI applications that employ Large Language Models (LLMs).

About the Webinar
As generative AI becomes increasingly vital for enterprises – especially in applications such as chatbots utilizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems – ensuring the security and confidentiality of data within these frameworks is essential.

Our upcoming genAI security webinar will address the significant challenges related to data security and privacy in AI applications that employ Large Language Models (LLMs).

During this webinar, we will introduce confidential computing as a method for safeguarding data, with a specific focus on its application within RAG systems for securing data during usage or processing. Additionally, we will outline best practices for implementing confidential computing in AI environments, ensuring that data remains protected while still enabling advanced AI capabilities.

Learn more or contact our team: https://canonical.com/data

GenAI security with confidential computing

Join our technical demo where Andreea Munteanu, AI/ML Product Manager and Kimonas Sotirchos, Kubeflow Software Engineer, will:

* Talk about key considerations when building machine learning pipelines
* Learn how to build ML pipelines using Kubeflow
* Give insight of some best practices when using Kubeflow pipelines

More information about the webinar: 

Machine Learning Operations is a new practice that ensures machine learning projects run in an automated and reproducible manner. It is often described as DevOps for machine learning, since it brings together ML development and the operations that are required afterwards to maintain any ML initiative. MLOps has three core components: data pipelines, model pipelines and applications pipelines, which developers are often looking to optimize.

What are ML pipelines?

ML pipelines refer to the pipelines of all three components of the machine learning lifecycle and enable developers to automate ML workloads, streamlining the process of taking models to production. They are a foundational aspect to scaling machine learning projects and running them in a more effective manner.

There are multiple ways to build ML pipelines. Open source tools such as Kubeflow are an easy option, as they have already built the engine to perform such tasks. Kubeflow Pipelines are one of Kubeflow’s components which can be used to build ML pipelines.

Learn more or contact our team: https://canonical.com/solutions/ai

Build your machine learning pipeline with Kubeflow

Join is for a deep dive into group replication, clusterSet, and multi-cloud database architectures.

About the Webinar

Public cloud providers offer convenient services for database deployments. However, depending solely on a single provider's database-as-a-service can result in vendor lock-in and reduce your system’s resilience against widespread outages affecting the provider.
Instead, explore our approach to deploying MySQL across multiple clouds. A multi-cloud database strategy enables you to retain control of your infrastructure while enhancing overall resiliency and leveraging the unique strengths of each cloud provider.

Register to our webinar and learn more about:
MySQL Group replication
MySQL ClusterSet technology  
Our reference architecture for multi-cloud MySQL deployments

Learn more or contact our team: https://canonical.com/data/mysql

Navigating multi-cloud database deployments with MySQL for maximum uptime

Automotive is a highly regulated industry going through important changes towards software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Innovation is vital to meeting the new challenges and demands of the automotive industry as it evolves around software-defined vehicles – but this innovation cannot come at the expense of vehicle safety and cybersecurity. 

Canonical’s teams of support engineers, software developers and customer success professionals, have allowed us unique insights into the challenges that modern automotive leaders face. Join our upcoming webinar to learn from our experiences in supporting and enabling automotive software security and innovation.

Spotlight on automotive: Ensuring business continuity and long-term customer success

We’ve all heard the anecdotes of data scientists spending more time on tooling than ML models. There is no smoke without fire, right? The truth is AI/ML practitioners struggle with their environments for various reasons, including tooling fragmentation, package dependencies and access to computing power.

Data Science Stack (DSS) is an out-of-the-box solution for data scientists and machine learning engineers, published by Canonical. It is a ready-made environment for ML enthusiasts that enables them to develop and optimize models without spending time on the necessary underlying tooling. It is designed to run on any AI workstation that runs Ubuntu, maximizing the GPU’s capability and simplifying its usage.

Join us for this webinar to learn more about data science tools, with a focus on DSS and its capabilities. During the webinar, Michal Hucko, MLOps engineer at Canonical and Andreea Munteanu, AI & MLOps Product Manager, will talk about:

- Key considerations when getting started with data science
- Data science through the open source lens
- Deep dive into Data science stack (DSS)
- Demo of the DSS
- Prepare your questions and join us live to get insights into how DSS improves the developer experience for data science and ML projects on Ubuntu.

Learn more or contact our team: https://ubuntu.com/ai/data-science

Introducing Canonical Data Science Stack GA: set up an ML environment with 3 commands on Ubuntu

Are you facing challenges delivering and maintaining secure and compliant desktop environments to employees worldwide on your AWS environment? Traditional VDI solutions can be complex and expensive. Ubuntu Desktop on Amazon WorkSpaces offers a streamlined, cost-effective alternative. By logging into a desktop from any device, you can ensure consistent access to your applications and data, while maintaining the highest security standards. 

Ubuntu on WorkSpaces benefits from Ubuntu Pro which include access to Canonical’s Landscape solution. Landscape is a powerful management tool that simplifies the administration of Ubuntu Pro instances on Amazon WorkSpaces at scale. It automates critical tasks like configuration management, patching, auditing, access control, and compliance, enabling your systems to remain secure, compliant and up to date. Whether you're dealing with well-connected or air-gapped environments, Landscape offers flexible deployment options.

In this webinar, we will explore how Landscape can help streamline the management capabilities required to support a distributed, remote workforce utilizing Ubuntu on Amazon WorkSpaces.

Simplifying Ubuntu Desktop Management on Amazon WorkSpaces with Canonical Landscape

Developing an AAOS-based system comes with challenges like hardware dependencies, logistical delays and the need for vehicle and OEM specific customisation. Join us for an exclusive webinar where we explore how Anbox Cloud is solving these challenges and transforming the world of Android Automotive development. Designed to streamline and enhance the development process, Anbox Cloud enables developers to efficiently deploy, test, and scale Android apps across various configurations, eliminating the traditional hardware dependencies that slow down the development process.

Unleashing Android Automotive development with Anbox Cloud

OpenSearch is an open source search and analytics suite that developers use to build solutions for search, data observability, data ingestion, Security Event and Information Management (SIEM), vector databases, and more. It is designed for scalability, offering powerful full-text search capabilities and supporting various data types, including structured and unstructured data.
This webinar is designed to introduce participants to the basics of OpenSearch, a powerful and flexible search engine, and OpenSearch Dashboards, the associated analytics and visualisation platform.

By the end of this webinar, you will be able to:
-- Understand the basic architecture and core concepts of OpenSearch
-- Set up and configure an OpenSearch cluster
-- Install and navigate OpenSearch Dashboards
-- Create and customise dashboards to visualise data effectively
-- OpenSearch in production best practices
-- How to make it easier for you to manage OpenSearch in production

This webinar has been made for:
-- Developers who want to implement search functionality in their applications
-- Data Analysts looking to create visualisations and gain insights from large datasets
-- System Administrators responsible for managing and scaling search clusters
-- Business Intelligence Professionals interested in exploring new tools for data analysis

Learn more: https://canonical.com/data/opensearch

Getting started with OpenSearch (search engine) and OpenSearch Dashboard

AI is at the forefront of innovation. It changes the shape of all industries, challenging organisations to rethink their processes and adjust their infrastructure. Enterprises are looking nowadays to leverage their  existing computing power to accelerate model training and use tools such as Kubernetes for container orchestration or Kubeflow for workload automation in order to move their ML projects to production. 

In this webinar, you will:
- Learn what are the challenges with running AI on top of K8s
- Learn how to schedule your ML workloads
- Discover why K8s is a good fit for AI projects
- Leverage Kubernetes operators and schedulers to accelerate project delivery
- Understand better the cloud-native applications ecosystem and how it enhances AI/ML projects
- Have a clear path of taking ML projects to production with a fully open source solution

Learn more or contact our team: https://canonical.com/solutions/ai/infrastructure

Optimise your ML workloads on Kubernetes

Are you a .NET developer looking to optimise your development and deployment processes? Join our exclusive webinar, where we dive deep into the seamless integration of .NET on Ubuntu, offering you the tools and insights needed to enhance your development experience.

Join this webinar to learn more about:
- Expert Guidance: Learn directly from industry experts at Canonical and Microsoft who have spearheaded the integration of .NET on Ubuntu.
- .NET on Ubuntu 24.04
- What are chiselled Ubuntu containers?
- How do chiselled containers address container security challenges?
- Chiselled .NET and what it means for .NET developers
- Chiselled .NET 8 demo

Accelerate .NET development and deployment on Ubuntu

In this talk, we'll examine how outsourcing the management of key application enablers can give businesses an advantage in a world of disruption and non-linear, accelerating change. We will examine three key aspects of the modern business landscape - cloud & SaaS, agile, and outsourcing - and propose a strategy to help navigate through the jungle.

It's like a jungle out there: how to adapt your IT strategy for changing markets

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