Ubuntu Linux Scalability

AtulChaurasia - PeerSpot reviewer
Operational Technical Security at Metro Bank

I am using the solution for my personal needs. It is possible to increase the number of users depending on who uses it.

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ND
System Administrator at Figment Design Laboratories

It can and has scaled almost endlessly in my environments. I have 200 servers running smoothly with long uptimes (the hardware has failed before the OS has). 

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Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy

Currently, we are trying to implement our solution with the Kubernetes environment. We need horizontal scalability, not vertical. When we need more capacity, we add another server and distribute the load onto the new server.

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March 2024
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JR
Principal Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

With respect to scalability of Ubuntu Linux, you can use the same version on a machine with one CPU and one gig of RAM, and you could move this machine to a different VM with 64 CPUs and two terabyte of RAM and you just have to start it. Yes, it scales very well

If you scale up the machine, it will be faster almost by the amount that you scale up. It will not be 64 times faster with 64 CPUs, but it'll be like 55 times faster with 64 CPUs than with one.

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DG
Technician / Network & Systems Administrator, ITAS Program at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

I've never really scaled things up much. Usually, I pick a system and make it a certain size and availability. I've done it with virtual machines where I've increased drive space and things, but I've never really done the scalability side to where it can boost up another server to take a load off. I'd love to try it, but I've never had a situation where I really needed it.

In general, we have probably about 50 users at a time. It is not a huge number, but in terms of usage, it is extensively used. Ubuntu is just about everything other than the basic Windows domain stuff. Domain controllers and VPN are all we've got on Windows currently. 

Our situation right now is just right. I've got Jitsi Meet, which is a video conferencing type server, and I might increase capabilities there. In general, I don't think we're really going to expand much, but you never know in this day and age how much things change in IT. At one time, we were doing OpenStack ourselves, and I told people, "Yeah, we're competing with Amazon Web Services, but only at this little level." Finally, it got changed out anyway because they kept changing it so much.

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

I rate the tool’s scalability a nine out of ten. We have more than 100 users.

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ID
CTO at GreenWeb

I have set up and deployed Ubuntu with Ubuntu MAAS installation. This was a very useful service that Ubuntu offered to us. I deployed my server with my coworkers and we set up many operating systems at the data centres within a few minutes. Scalability in terms of a service layer is really good. You can install and deploy on many different types of hardware. Most of my experiences are setting and deploying Ubuntu on HP generation of 7, 8 and 9 servers, from the DL38 server, HP DL38 to DL36, 316 servers. We use it as much as we want. Regarding the scalability of Ubuntu, most of our coworkers are using Ubuntu as client servers. They are based in Iran. Ubuntu-based operating systems are really popular in Iran.

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Naresh Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise Solutions Architect at OORWIN LABS INC

The solution is scalable. We are using ECS for our backend, running ECS instances exclusively. Depending on the task requirements, we can easily scale up without limitations.
Around 15k users are using this solution. It is on autoscaling. We are maintaining load balancer. Whenever it writes automatically, it will spin up additional added sources.

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EV
IT manager at Koleksiyon

Though my company was not required to use the scalability features of food by the solution, I believe that it is quite good.

Two or three people in my company use the solution.

My company has no plans to increase the number of uses of the solution.

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PeterKrall - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance Software Engineer + Director of a company at Peter Krall Consulting

It is a scalable solution.

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KS
Computer Manager at a university with 10,001+ employees

Linux offers very good scalability potential. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

I just use the solution for personal use. I don't have a big team using it.

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Shehzad Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security and Compliance Officer at Carnation

The tool is scalable. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We usually publish our web servers on it. It is for production purposes. Five to six people from our organization are working on Linux administration. We also have developers developing applications on it.

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Juan Jose Anaya - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at SAPEC

Around two to five users use Ubuntu Linux in our organization.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for scalability.

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MK
It at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The tool is not scalable.

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GR
Embedded Engineer at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

Around three to four people are using the solution in our organization.

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David-Henderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber security consultant at ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY

The solution is scalable. 

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CW
Lead Desktop Support Technician at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Ubuntu might work for a bigger company, but I don't think so. Again, you would have to get the right people to do it. You need somebody technical. If you have a bunch of people who aren't technical, then it is just going to be a headache trying to get a feel for it or teach them. Microsoft is easier. You can do this, do that, implement, push it out, or whatever. 

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MA
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Scalability? It Depends. It's Linux, you can do anything with it. 

It depends on what you mean by scalability. You have to be very precise. If you're talking about data center and scalability, then, yes, it's scalable. 

There are open-source projects that are being used, whether it be with Ubuntu or with Red Hat or with SUSE, to scale data centers, or to establish a scale-out architecture. It is possible to achieve scalability with Ubuntu, depending on the scenario. 

With any other Linux distribution, you can achieve quite the same.

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Johan Wentzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Forensic Technology Manager at Baker Tilly

I have found the solution to be scalable.

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Viktor Dolyna - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Integrity

I don't need the scalability aspect. 

There are around 10 end users using this product in our company. There are around 40 servers of Ubuntu servers in my company.

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NP
Sr. System and Storage Administrator at a government with 51-200 employees

The scalability potential of the solution is good. If a company would like to expand the solution, it can do so with relative ease. It's not hard. 

We have about 50 people in total who are currently using the solution.

Whether we continue to use the solution or increase usage will depend largely on end-user requirements. It's not really up to us for the most part.

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MF
Sales engineer at Mavisco Resources Sdn Bhd

I'm using the solution for demonstration purposes for my customer. They have 500 workstations.

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MA
Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat

This solution is scalable. 

There are less than 20 end users of Ubuntu Linux in our organization. We don't have plans for expansion right now because we already have our requirements met, in terms of capacity. 

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RK
Senior Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have more than 100 users on this solution currently.

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FA
IT Assistant at Hotel 2 Fevrier

The solution is very scalable.

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DD
Director & CTO at TechnoInfotech

This is a scalable solution. We are a 15-person team using the product but we have deployed for organizations which have 100+ users. We use a three or four person engineering team for deployment. We plan to increase usage of this product. 

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Narender Reddy - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at iLenSys Technologies Pvt Ltd

Ubuntu Linux is a scalable product.

We are working with medium-sized businesses. 

This solution is not used by everyone; only a few developers will use Ubuntu to deploy the code and make the application live.

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Sushrit Moundekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at InfoCepts

Ubuntu Linux is a scalable solution. Around 50 users are using the solution in our organization.

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Chairul Manalu - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer (Devops) at PT.Prima Sarana Solusi

The product’s scalability is not better. RedHat is better. We’ve more than ten users using this product. We plan to increase the usage when there is a requirement or specification.

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MK
Director at SafeSquid Labs

Ubuntu Linux is scalable. However, there could be better documentation to assist in scalability in many areas, such as PCP scanning.

We have approximately 40 people using the solution in my organization. We have plans to increase usage in the future.

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Kevin Honde - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Solution Architect at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe

Ubuntu is scalable and we have approximately 10 users in our organization. It is very easy to scale up and there are no licenses involved. It is just a matter of upgrading your own hardware.

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RM
Director, CTO, Co-Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable and easy when it comes to the storage RAM. There is no need to do anything extra. 

One of the reasons we use the solution is for its scalability. 

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OP
Senior architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

While I cannot comment on the ability to scale the solution on-premises, I can say that this is very easy to accomplish on-cloud. It is now much easier than it used to be. 

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OK
Solution Architect at KIAN company

I think that Ubuntu Linux is a scalable solution.

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RS
Lead Linux Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is pretty good. I have around 50 users for the team that I help and have no complaints.

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HF
Researcher (telecommunication networks, smart cities and IoT) at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

This is a scalable operating system.

We have approximately 2,000 students and teachers using it.

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ZG
Senior System Administrator at Debre Markos University

The solution is scalable.

We have six people using this solution in my organization.

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LC
Programma / Project Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is quite scalable. If you need to expand it, you can do so as a company. 

It's the base of our data platform. 70,000 people are using it. The IT team alone is 5,000 to 6,000 people. 

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BR
Unix Admin at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

I haven't used Ubuntu as a server operating system. Obviously, Linux is scalable because we have been using Red Hat and other distributions, but with respect to Ubuntu, I haven't used it on the server side very much.

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AO
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If I need to increase the disk on Ubuntu it's just hard for us to increase in the environment so scalability is not so easy. 

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JC
Assistant Researcher at CNRS

This is a scalable product. We have more than 100 Linux users.

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SN
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
AS
Security Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

There were no major issues with its scalability.

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PM
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees

It's a scalable product, but not the best. We have 2,000 systems. 

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SA
Manager at global trading

I have found the solution is highly scalable. We can use any virtual hardware that we can think of, there are no boundaries with scalability.

We have five engineers that use this solution in my organization and we plan to increase usage.

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SF
Executive Director at Dynamic Tomorrow

This solution is very scalable on the server with some add-ons like like containers, Docker containers and kubernetes. We are a relatively small development company with only three staff members. But I've installed this for customers with hundreds of users supported by the Ubuntu server. 

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VB
Information Technology System Administrator at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees

While the scalability can vary, I do feel the solution to be scalable. 

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PA
Project Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

Ubuntu Linux is scalable.

We have approximately 100 users in our organization.

Ubuntu Linux is the popular choice in our company. It is approved to continue usage.

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it_user6186 - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent Analyst and Advisory Consultant at Server StorageIO - www.storageio.com

For my use, I did not scale it very large, as was concerned with doing so and with not having enough hardware to maintain performance.

In other words, depending on what you are looking to do, while being SDS, Ceph is also hardware dependent, as is all SDS.

However, it also needs CPU, memory and fast storage for OSDs as you scale activity.

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EJ
IP/MPLS Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm not sure if the product is scalable. I haven't attempted to scale it and therefore could not accurately comment on that aspect.

We have the solution in different departments and on different servers. In our department, maybe five or six people use it. 

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Syed Masood - PeerSpot reviewer
Web Developer at doodleblue

We have about 150 people using the tool.

We do plan to increase usage in the future.

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BK
Associate Director at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We have approximately 400 people using this solution in my organization.

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MS
Head of Technical Support at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

I haven't gone through scalability. It's more for an individual setup in my case. However, they're supposed to be much faster than Windows.

We only have a couple of people using it in our organization, as most actually use Windows. 

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SM
System Administrator at j5 Software South Africa

Ubuntu Linux is built to scale well. We are currently running our entire infrastructure on it. So we've got virtual machine servers, word servers, and version control for code. And I've got an office with at least ten people using the desktop version.

I'm hoping that our software service will grow and then we will have much more server usage. We are part of a much bigger corporation with more than 20,000 employees in the active directory. So, we used to previously push Ubuntu much harder, but these days we just like to let people choose whether they want to use it. And we buy Ubuntu certified laptops for the people who want to use Ubuntu for enterprise. Linux is still a bit of a second class citizen on enterprise desktop, because of active directory dominance.

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CA
Owner and business consultant at networks srl

It is scalable in terms of server cluster infrastructure, but the main issue with scalability is the hardware.

We have five to ten users in the enterprise. We also use it for every student. In terms of our plans to increase its usage, I don't know what the future brings because I see that Microsoft has also started to use Linux infrastructure.

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BP
Founder at Element Flux

I am not really sure of a use case for scaling in Ubuntu. It is just an operating system. It is not like adding a server or something like that.

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HT
System Administrator and DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable. We have big servers on it. 

We have four to five people directly working on Ubuntu Linux. They are a part of the System Admin team.

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ES
System Engineer at a non-profit with 201-500 employees

Scale would normally be limited to the hardware. As with most Linux distros, HA packages for most apps are available in the repositories and many great support  forums with how-to's.

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it_user241842 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Developer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I did not run into scalability issues.

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MR
Co-Founder- Operation & Digital technology transformation at Cloudtreez

I'm not sure about the scalability of the solution. It may be how you use the solution and how you set it up.

We're just a startup with a small team of maybe ten people. We aren't a big organization.

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BB
System Manager at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

It depends more on the hardware layer, not on the operating system. If it can grow on the hardware, CPU memories, then we can put more stress on it. But usually, when we configure it, we configure it on the VM machine and then I start the OS and the application. When we want to expand, we create a new VM, and we start a new Ubuntu OS and we deploy another application. This is how we expand.

We have around 500 to 600 users. We are a university and we have a lot of staff here. 

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CN
Senior Cloud Architect and Team Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable, it is open-source, and can be developed. You are able to install it on many different systems.

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SAMUELMWANGI - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Calidad Systems Limited

I have found Ubuntu Linux to be scalable.

We have approximately 100 users using this solution in my organization.

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it_user697008 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder and CEO at a tech services company

There were no scalability issues.

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SA
Director, EPS at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is scalable. We can scale it.

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HG
Technical Content Writer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The solution does not need to be scaled. 

We have 30 to 35 users on the solution currently.

We might increase usage in the future. However, it's hard to say, as we have many Mac users as well. They would not migrate to Linux Ubuntu.

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DB
MIS Specialist at a agriculture with 201-500 employees

The solution is scalable.

We plan to increase the usage of Ubuntu Linux.

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NU
Vice President SOC Monitoring at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

It is scalable.

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GM
IT Infra Head at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable solution. We have 10 users in our organization.

We plan to continue using it in the future.

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AJ
Human Resources Manager at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a scalable product.

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MW
Project Manager at Realnux

This product is used by our engineering team, which has approximately 20 engineers. We plan to continue using it in the future.

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LD
Director Lean Infrastructure at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I think it's very scalable due to the nature of the architecture. It's a reliable operating system.

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it_user265317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Informatico aziendale at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

At home I don't have to scale my system, so no issues.

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JV
Cyber Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Ubuntu Linux is a scalable solution.

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DK
Information Technology Manager and ISMS Auditor at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

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MH
Solution Architect / Head of DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The solution can scale if you need it to.

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AA
Operations Manager at a retailer with 201-500 employees

We have about 20 users on the solution currently. However, I've mostly restricted the usage to just myself as I explore the solution. It's still early days. We haven't done any scaling.

While the solution is still new to us, we'll continue to use it so long as the solution itself proves to be useful to the company.

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it_user1165362 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've never tried to scale the solution. I wouldn't be able to comment on its scalability.

We have 30 to 40 people on the solution currently.

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HQ
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I had a customer who was using NGINX running on Ubuntu servers in three different data centers. After getting more servers behind these NGINX Ubuntu servers, we had to resize everything. This was easily done in a very short amount of time, and we were able to expand the capacity too.

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CR
Developer / Team Lead at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Ubuntu Linux is a scalable solution.

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NT
Data & AI expert at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Ubuntu Linux is scalable.

We have approximately 25 people using the solution in my organization.

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FK
Managing Partner at Veribir Ltd

The solution is scalable.

We have only a small number of people using this solution.

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MC
CEO at SoniqSoft JRMM sp. z o.o. s.k.

It is scalable. Its usage is being increased all the time.

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HG
Director of Linux Platform Software Institute at a consumer goods company with 51-200 employees

We have hundreds of people using the solution and we do not see a problem with scalability. Most of these people are end-users. I think six of those people are administrators to help to maintain the product.  

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FK
IT Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, Ubuntu allows us to implement the necessary scalability. But in our solution, we don't need scalability. But it is possible to implement the solution in Ubuntu and I think it permits scalability.

I have tried to do the scalability by using the future machine to implement the scalability solution, but at this time we don't use it in our solution in the lab because you have many people with commercial access. For this kind of use, normally it is on our server for our solution but it's possible to implement a scalability solution with high availability, also.

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MB
Solution Architect, IT Consultant at Merdasco - Rayan Merdas Data Prosseccing

I think there isn't a difference between Ubuntu and other distributors. If you have enough experience in Linux, you can implement most solutions, and there aren't any specific features between most of the major Linux. 

I have been working with several companies that use Linux in their office but they use Linux servers and most of them use Oracle Linux or CentOS and some of them use Debian. Some employers in these companies use Ubuntu so there are not very many users. 

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IR
Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

For desktop, we don't need it to be scalable. Currently, it is for personal use, and there is only one user.

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TL
Head of Security at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I have found it to be scalable. 

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YZ
IT Manager at TMSoft ltd

I cannot answer this question. I haven't tried to scale the solution. Directory as a workstation is used by a few hundred, but all servers are for Oracle databases. And that users work on Windows work stations, but with Oracle client issues, databases on the servers. But we don't plan to scale.

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AP
Information Technology Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We have 200 people using this solution in my organization.

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ZB
Executive Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is scalable. We currently have around ten users. We don't have any plans to increase its usage.

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CL
Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Ubuntu Linux is both stable and scalable.

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it_user220236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate System Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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HM
Founder at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is definitely scalable. 

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MG
Partner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

We have one customer using Ubuntu.

We will continue to provide this solution for our customers.

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FE
Senior System Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

This is a scalable product. It is not used throughout the organization. Rather, I use it privately on my desktops.

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ZS
IT Specialist at a tech services company

This solution is scalable. We have 10 users at the moment. We plan to increase usage.

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SB
ITOM Solution Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Ubuntu is a scalable solution.

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it_user239649 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
HS
Works

For me, the solution is scalable.

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Ubuntu Linux
March 2024
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