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Canonical produces Ubuntu, provides commercial services for Ubuntu's users, and works with hardware manufacturers, software vendors and cloud partners to certify Ubuntu.

Canonical
4 October 2010

Metal Sales deploys mission-critical servers five times faster with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Case study

US-based Metal Sales Manufacturing needed to upgrade its server infrastructure so that it could accelerate processes, integrate new applications and scale to meet future requirements. The company needed to implement a cost-effective solution that could improve efficiencies across the organisation. Metal Sales chose to implement Ubuntu Ser ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Landscape contributes to the doubling of Context Media’s advertising performance

Desktop Case study

Chicago-based company Context Media builds waiting room TV networks that help healthcare professionals educate and inspire their patients as they make crucial decisions about their lifestyle and clinical treatment. IT is critical to the company. Context Media operates approximately 600 video terminals across the United States and system u ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Emphony Technologies achieves 100 per cent uptime with Ubuntu

Ubuntu Case study

New business Emphony Technologies needed to implement a cost-effective, reliable and available IT infrastructure. It wanted to introduce a server environment on which its infrastructure that project management applications and common workloads could both run. The company chose to implement Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, the organisat ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Chicago-based financial services company chooses Ubuntu and cuts server infrastructure by 70 per cent

Ubuntu Case study

Financial services company Equitec was running its mission-critical, proprietary trading software on 100 Windows-based servers. After experiencing a series of performance issues, the company decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Now Equitec can run its entire workload on just 30 Ubuntu-based servers, which equates to a dramatic hardware, ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Film site reduces upgrade times from days to minutes

Ubuntu Case study

Kinopoisk (http://www.kinopoisk.ru/), a Russian film website similar to IMDb, needed to implement a new server infrastructure that would simplify maintenance and scale to meet its future requirements. After testing a range of server technologies, the company chose to introduce 15 servers based on Ubuntu Server Edition. As a result, it has ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

Desktop Case study

Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...

Canonical
4 October 2010

PlusServer deploys Landscape Dedicated Server and achieves a rapid return on investment

Ubuntu Case study

Summary German hosting provider PlusServer AG runs 70 per cent of its internal systems and 15 per cent of customer servers on Ubuntu. To reduce time spent on routine maintenance and improve control over updates, the company rolled out Landscape Dedicated Server from Canonical. With Landscape, PlusServer administrators can manage multiple ...

Canonical
1 October 2010

Ubuntu emoticons

Ubuntu Design

“Say hello to my little friends…” I’ve just completed a set of emoticons that more closely follow our visual identity to replace the defaults on the Canonical Design Blog. The old ones grated rather badly in my opinion and stuck out as something that needed attention. We are still determining exactly what colours we intend ...

Canonical
1 October 2010

This week in design – 1 October 2010

Ubuntu Design

It’s _almost_ there. Happy “so close to release I can almost taste the Ubuntinis” Day everyone! And if you’ve not tried an Ubuntini, well you should. The next release of Ubuntu releases on the 10th October but the release candidate is out there now and as I write this the final release meeting of the ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

Desktop Case study

Cost-effective, easy-to-use and reliable, Ubuntu proved to be the open source platform of choice on which to build a support system for technology-enabled classrooms at The Johns Hopkins University. Background America’s first research university, The Johns Hopkins University is a world leader in research and education. Sean Stanley, Instr ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu provides a secure and easily accessible system for german pilots

Desktop Case study

Enhanced security, outstanding support and reduced maintenance times – Ubuntu was the optimal choice for Contact Air GmbH. Summary Contact Air is a regional airline operating exclusively for Lufthansa German Airlines. They run a fleet of 13 turboprop aircraft flown by 120 pilots using notebooks for performance calculations, logging, train ...

Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu proved the optimal choice for a non-profit radio station

Desktop Case study

Simplicity in switching, ease-of-use, great client/server side management and outstanding reliability – Ubuntu proved the best choice for KRUU-FM Radio Station. Background KRUU-FM, a non-profit community radio station based in Iowa, USA, broadcasts locally 24 hours a day via an FM signal, and online to 30 countries via an MP3 audio stream ...

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