Blog posts tagged
"Government"

8 posts

Tytus Kurek
10 January 2024

What is sovereign cloud?

Article Cloud and server

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, the concept of a sovereign cloud has recently emerged in response to data management challenges. As governments increasingly recognise the importance of safeguarding their data, ensuring compliance with local regulations, and asserting digital autonomy, sovereign cloud...

Tytus Kurek
10 January 2024

Canonical
5 September 2023

Empowering Australian government innovation: a secure path to open source excellence

Security AI

The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many governments, they are looking for new and innovative ways to tackle these challenges. FST Government 2023 is an exciting conference that brings over 200 government...

Canonical
5 September 2023

Oliver Smith
22 November 2021

Ubuntu Desktop Accessibility: Our VPAT Conformance Report

Article Desktop

Canonical is pleased to share that our latest Ubuntu Desktop Accessibility Conformance Report is now available for download, based on the VPAT Version 2.4.

Oliver Smith
22 November 2021

Canonical
12 June 2013

Canonical and Autonomic Resources partner to bring Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to the US federal government

News Cloud and server

Canonical and Autonomic Resources today announced the availability of an integrated product based on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Dell Blade server hardware under the ARC-P cloud product family. ARC-P-UEC is now available for purchase as single SKU on Autonomic’s GSA Schedule 70 contract. UEC has proved very...

Canonical
12 June 2013

Canonical
21 January 2013

Ubuntu at the heart of Obama for America success

Article Cloud and server

Harper Reed, CTO for the Obama For America presidential campaign talks to Canonical

Canonical
21 January 2013

Canonical
17 February 2011

Legislators in Kerala, India work better with Ubuntu laptops

Case study Desktop

Tens of thousands of dollars saved on software licensing Summary The Government of Kerala wanted to provide 141 members of its legislative assembly with new laptop computers to help increase productivity and collaboration. Working with Canonical partner Zyxware Technologies and the active support of the Free Software...

Canonical
17 February 2011

admin
16 December 2010

Skalica City Hall reduces costs by 70 per cent with Ubuntu

Case study Desktop

Landscape systems management simplifies maintenance Summary Based in Slovakia, the Skalica City Hall IT team must provide a reliable and easy-to-use desktop infrastructure to 120 users. The team found that its existing Microsoft Windows XP-based environment was too expensive to upgrade. It decided to switch to Ubuntu...

admin
16 December 2010

Canonical
10 November 2010

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Case study Cloud and server

Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and...

Canonical
10 November 2010