Blog posts tagged
"ROI"

7 posts

Canonical
21 September 2012

Bancard streamlines PCI compliance with Canonical’s Landscape

Case study Cloud and server

Landscape centralises management of Ubuntu servers to increase efficiency and support compliance with financial industry regulations Summary NA Bancard provides fully managed, cost-effective payment processing services, enabling US businesses to accept non-cash payments in store, online, and through mobile channels....

Canonical
21 September 2012

Canonical
14 April 2011

AdAction drives ad-serving performance with Ubuntu and Membase Server

Case study Ubuntu

New server-side solution delivers high throughput and zero downtime Summary AdAction, a leader in the ad-serving business, tracks consumer behaviour online and delivers the right adverts to the right people at the right time. To achieve this, the company must store massive amounts of consumer data — from roughly 75...

Canonical
14 April 2011

Canonical
2 February 2011

Agora Games makes dramatic time and cost savings with Ubuntu

Case study Ubuntu

Gaming company cuts server infrastructure by almost half with Ubuntu and VMware Summary Agora Games creates custom online gaming communities and develops video-game middleware. As a fast-growing company, Agora Games realised that it needed to implement a standardised infrastructure that could scale to meet growing...

Canonical
2 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
4 October 2010

Emphony Technologies achieves 100 per cent uptime with Ubuntu

Case study Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Canonical
4 October 2010

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

Case study Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
4 October 2010

Canonical
4 October 2010

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

Case study Ubuntu

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...

Canonical
4 October 2010