7 posts tagged with “Announcement”

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Meet Balena at the Open Source Summit Japan 2023

header It's finally time for Open Source Summit Japan 2023. Open Source Summit Japan is the leading conference in Japan organized by The Linux Foundation. It aims to connect the open-source ecosystem under one roof, providing a forum for technologists and open-source industry leaders to collaborate and share information, learn about the latest in open-source technologies, and find out how to gain…

December 01, 2023 / 2 min

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Balena Update

And just like that, in a blink of an eye, 8 months have passed and I'm only now sitting down to write an update on how balena is doing. It was never my intention to wait this long, but as co-CEO, I've been deeply immersed in guiding our team and shaping our future. 8 months is too long, though, so let's fix that. In my last update I discussed organisational changes and our goal to steer balena…

November 13, 2023 / 4 min

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balenaFin has reached end of life

TL;DR - From 01/02/2023, balena will cease manufacturing the balenaFin and move to releasing the design files for commercial usage, under a permissive license. Our mission has always centered around removing sources of friction for our customers. Back in 2018, we recognized a void in the market for a hardware device that could support our customers' scaling ambitions. That's why, in 2018, we…

June 27, 2023 / 2 min

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Refactoring Our Mission Statement

For several (transformative) years, balena’s mission has been to 'unlock the potential of physical computing by removing friction from fleet owners'. This mission served as a north star, driving our efforts to make a significant impact on the friction encountered by developers and businesses across the globe whilst working on IoT and edge computing challenges in the real world. We are incredibly…

May 17, 2023 / 3 min

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Recent organisational changes at balena

Balena has been going through a period of change over the past year. The most notable is a change of leadership at the company with Alexandros Marinos stepping down from the role of CEO and moving into an advisory position in the company's board of directors. In his place three of us from the balena team: Chris Crocker-White, Konstaninos Mouzakis and Phil Wilson have stepped up to form the Office…

March 21, 2023 / 3 min

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balenaCloud pricing changes and credits: let us explain

Recently, we added the ability to purchase credits for balenaCloud, and today we’re announcing changes to our pricing effective on March 8th, 2023. Let us explain these changes, our thinking behind them, and look at how they may affect you. A reminder: balenaCloud credits Last week, we launched a brand new feature to balenaCloud, allowing you to purchase credits upfront at a discount to reduce the…

February 06, 2023 / 6 min

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Save with balenaCloud by pre-purchasing device credits

Today we’re announcing a brand new feature within balenaCloud, allowing you to pre-purchase balenaCloud credits upfront, providing a discount and reducing the overall cost of running your fleet. If you can anticipate your future usage and growth on the platform, you can now pre-purchase credits (device-months) up-front, and receive a discount based on the quantity you purchase. These credits are…

February 01, 2023 / 1 min