--- title: JT Global standardises mission-critical production system on Ubuntu description: Virtualised Ubuntu environment delivers datacentre power and cooling savings of £2,800 per year Summary JT Global, formerly Jersey Telecom, is a leading communications provider in the Channel Islands. It delivers ADSL services to 38,000 subscribers via an extensive IT infrastructure that incorporates public DNS servers, authentication ser […] url: https://canonical.com/blog/jt-global-standardises-mission-critical-production-system-on-ubuntu?format=md --- 1. [Blog](https://canonical.com/blog) 2. Article --- [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical "More about Canonical") 24 January 2012 # JT Global standardises mission-critical production system on Ubuntu [Cost savings](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/cost-savings) [Europe](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/europe) [Partner](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/partner) [Telco](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/telco) [Telecommunications](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/telecommunications) [Uptime](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/uptime) [Virtualisation](https://canonical.com/blog/tag/virtualisation) --- Share the article Virtualised Ubuntu environment delivers datacentre power and cooling savings of £2,800 per year ## Summary JT Global, formerly Jersey Telecom, is a leading communications provider in the Channel Islands. It delivers ADSL services to 38,000 subscribers via an extensive IT infrastructure that incorporates public DNS servers, authentication services, IP management and monitoring tools, public-facing mail services and more. Built over many years, the environment was becoming complex and difficult to manage. To reduce workloads and lower datacentre costs, the company decided to migrate all production systems to a single, highly stable operating system – Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. it also created an Ubuntu-based, virtualised server farm to reduce hardware, power and cooling costs; improve hardware utilisation and speed up resource and services provisioning. ## Sign up for our newsletter Get the latest Canonical news and updates in your inbox. Work email: \*I agree to receive information about Canonical's products and services. By submitting this form, I confirm that I have read and agree to [Canonical's Privacy Policy](https://canonical.com/legal/dataprivacy). Sign up ## Share on --- ## Related posts [### A decade of Ubuntu on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE](https://canonical.com/blog/a-decade-of-ubuntu-on-ibm-z-and-ibm-linuxone) This year we celebrate a decade of Ubuntu Server support on the s390x architecture: marking a long-standing collaboration between Canonical and IBM that began at LinuxCon 2015.... [Pedro Lazzarotto](https://canonical.com/blog/author/pedro-lazzarotto) 12 June 2026 [### AI at the edge: simplifying infrastructure with Cisco and Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/ai-at-the-edge-simplifying-infrastructure-with-cisco-and-canonical) Legacy infrastructure was not designed for the requirements of the AI era. While large-scale model training remains centralized in data centers, test-time inference is rapidly... [Pedro Lazzarotto](https://canonical.com/blog/author/pedro-lazzarotto) 11 June 2026 [### The next era of telco clouds: get open infrastructure choice with Sylva and Canonical Kubernetes](https://canonical.com/blog/the-next-era-of-telco-clouds-get-open-infrastructure-choice-with-sylva-and-canonical-kubernetes) Achieving vendor neutrality in telco clouds requires an infrastructure layer that respects open standards, without wrapping them in rigid platform layers. By combining upstream... [estelacarmona](https://canonical.com/blog/author/estelacarmona) 11 June 2026 [### Canonical expands Ubuntu support to next-generation MediaTek Genio 520 and 720 platforms](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-expands-ubuntu-support-to-next-generation-mediatek-genio-520-and-720-platforms) Canonical is pleased to announce the early access launch of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for MediaTek’s Genio IoT platforms. Building on the companies’ strategic partnership, this release... [Canonical](https://canonical.com/blog/author/canonical) 20 April 2026