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Blog posts tagged
"case study"


Oliver Smith
17 May 2024

Migrating from CentOS to Ubuntu: a guide for system administrators and DevOps

Cloud and server Article

CentOS 7 is on track to reach its end-of-life (EoL) on June 30, 2024. Post this date, the CentOS Project will cease to provide updates or support, including vital security patches. Moving away from the RHEL-based ecosystem might appear daunting, but if you’re considering Ubuntu the switch can be both straightforward and economically viabl ...


Aaron Prisk
17 August 2023

Ubuntu in education: A K-12 IT Director’s experience

Desktop Article

Former IT Director and Systems Administrator Aaron Prisk shares his experiences migrating a Pennsylvanian school district to Ubuntu. ...


Oliver Smith
7 August 2023

Making a move: How migrating to Ubuntu saved a life insurance company 60% in costs

Cloud and server Article

Tech Mahindra details how their partnership with Canonical enabled them to shift the balance for a major Fortune 500 life insurance company. ...


Felipe Vanni
27 July 2023

University of Alabama at Birmingham accelerates research with Canonical and Dell

Ceph Partners

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is an internationally renowned public research university and academic medical centre that has more than 22,000 students enrolled, and 24,000 faculty members. UAB generates $12.1 billion in annual economic impact within the State of Alabama. UAB is committed to empowering its researchers with ...


Felipe Vanni
12 April 2023

Phoenix Systems sets a new standard for secure cloud services with Canonical and IBM

Cloud and server Article

Phoenix Systems, a Swiss company, partnered with IBM and Canonical to create a hyper-secure OpenStack cloud focused on data sovereignty and data protection. Switzerland is a country where data must be hosted within its borders, and for many workloads, public clouds are not an option. Phoenix Systems stepped in to fill this niche by buildi ...


Oliver Smith
3 April 2023

Closing the digital divide with Compudopt and Ubuntu Desktop

Desktop Article

A technical deep-dive into how Compudopt uses Ubuntu Desktop to resurrect older hardware and empower youth and their communities. ...


Rhys Davies
7 January 2020

Keep enterprise ROS robots up-to-date with snaps

Robotics Article

When a robot is not up-to-date, it becomes about as useful as an expensive paperweight, or companies have to burn money to get them back online. Yet when mobile apps need updating, it only takes a few clicks and a minute or two before it’s back up and running. This blog discusses how ROS robots ...


Sarah Dickinson
7 June 2019

Small Robot Company sows the seeds for autonomous and more profitable farming

Internet of Things Article

In Europe, the cost of running a cereal farm – cultivating wheat, rice, and other grains – has risen by 85% in the last 25 years, yet crop yields and revenues have stagnated. And while farms struggle to remain profitable, it won’t be long before those static yields become insufficient to support growing populations. Reliance ...


Sarah Dickinson
9 January 2019

Apellix engineers safer work environments with Ubuntu powered aerial robotics

Internet of Things Article

In 2016, 16% of all workplace deaths in the US were attributed to falls. Apellix, a Florida-based start up, who specialise in aerial robotics aims to reduce this number by using their drones in place of workers to complete tasks in elevated or dangerous environments. In tandem, these same aerial robotics can also reduce the ...


Amrisha Prashar
3 November 2016

azeti using Ubuntu Core for process automation in Industrial IoT

Internet of Things Article

Do you require IoT technologies to be running smoothly 24 hours a day? Can you not afford mission critical scenarios? Azeti, a provider of IoT technologies take these situations seriously and as a result have chosen Ubuntu core to provide more stable, efficient and secure distribution to the IoT equipment they monitor and maintain. azeti ...


Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
14 March 2016

Flexwebhosting spins up services in record time with Canonical

Cloud and server Case study

Flexwebhosting is one of the largest web hosting providers in the Netherlands with over 60,000 customers and houses over 6,500 web servers in different data centers in Amsterdam. Working with Canonical and choosing its managed cloud offering Bootstack as well as its service modelling tool Juju helped reduce time to service to minutes rath ...


Canonical
9 June 2015

teuto.net uses Ubuntu to bring IBM POWER8 to thepublic cloud

Cloud and server Case study

The German IT company teuto.net specializes in providing linux, hosting, cloud and web development services. In 2014, teuto.net created the brand “teutoStack“ for offering a wide range of services for customers interested in OpenStack cloud technology. In addition to consulting, training, operating and support services for private clouds, ...