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Customer: NH Hotels
Industry: Travel and tourism
Geography: Spain/International
Business Challenge: To reduce operational and maintenance costs by standardizing and automating the server ecosystem to manage hotel operations across all sites
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Heterogeneous hardware by different manufacturers
Benefits: Standardization and homogenization of IT infrastructure for greater control over an entire server estate; Efficient management with greater flexibility and scalability; Reduction in support and maintenance costs; Simplification
“ We are more than satisfied with the quality of solutions and services provided by Red Hat. The complex nature of this project suggested that the implementation would be complicated. However, thanks to the help and support of Red Hat, we were able to complete the project quickly and effectively.”
-- Julio Matarranz, Head of Corporate IT, NH Hotels
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Customer: Glöckle direct
Industry: Marketing and call centre services
Geography: Stuttgart, Germany
Business Challenge: To build a scalable and highly flexible middleware infrastructure for a new Java-based customer care and marketing application based on proven database server hardware
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss EJB (Versions 1.1 and 3)
Hardware: IBM AS/400 midrange servers, HP RX6600
Migration Path: Legacy IBM AS/400 client-server based application to a browser-based system developed in Java, using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Built a modern and scalable infrastructure; Realised considerable cost savings; Secured its investment in a mission-critical, future-proof infrastructure
”What’s great about JBoss Enterprise Middleware is that all the components just work together nicely. We can pick just what we need and keep the total cost of ownership much lower than with proprietary software. That also saves us a lot of time and effort when architecting the system.”
-- Uwe Wagensommer, head of IT at Glöckle direct
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Customer: Cox Enterprises
Industry: Consumer, Media + Technology, Automotive Services
Geography: North America
Business challenge: To increase performance and flexibility for growth, while creating savings around software support and maintaining reliability and availability
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PeopleSoft
Hardware: Hewlett Packard (HP) DL380 G5
Migration path: Sun Solaris and Oracle-based PeopleSoft to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Realized significant cost savings; Increased flexibility, performance, and infrastructure homogeneity; Experienced an ease of migration and improved, more efficient support
“From engineers to application developers to customers to management, we've had nothing but positive migration reviews.”
-- Dane Bamburry, Senior Enterprise Architect, Cox Enterprises
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Customer: Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited
Industry: Travel
Geography: Pan India
Business Challenge: Design an IT architecture that is scalable, high-performing, reliable, flexible, and cost-effective and can handle rapid business growth and ensure high availability for thousands of transactions per day, 365 days per year
Solution: Designed the entire IT infrastructure on open source solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL and Oracle DB, Tomcat and Ruby on Rails application servers, Apache web server
Hardware: HP Blade Intel x86 servers (~60 servers), HP / EMC storage, Dell and IBM Intel x86 rack servers
Benefits: Achieved system reliability, performance gains, system flexibility, and unmatched scalability—all at a fraction of the cost—while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
“Red Hat solutions enabled us to leverage IT in a strategic manner. They imparted higher business capabilities to handle the aggressive business growth in a smooth manner and allowed us to expand to newer markets. I am confident that Red Hat will help us to become a great brand to reckon with in the APAC region.”
Sanjeev Sreedharan, Vice President, Software Engineering, Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited
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Companies: Bright Horizons Family Solutions; HJB Consulting
Industry: Child Care; Technology Consulting
Geography: United States
Business Challenge: Needed to deploy a Business Process Management solution to transform a paper-based capital requisition work flow into a scalable and automated system. The Business Process Management solution needed to fully integrate with the existing Oracle Application Server and Portal running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all within an exceedingly tight budget
Software: JBoss Enterprise Framework; JBoss jBPM, utilizing jBPM Process Definition Language (jPDL); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Oracle Database 10g
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers with EMC Celerra NS40 storage arrays
Benefits: Accelerated the requisition cycle from weeks to hours, provided senior management with better visibility into the capital expenditure pipeline, enabled requesters real time access to approval status via portal interface and through email notifications, saw 100 percent user adoption in the first month of operation
“This application will work for many other decentralized processes within our organization that require senior level review and approvals. We already have three to four projects lined up that will save Bright Horizons time and money.” – Nancy Johnson, Director of Supply Management, Bright Horizons
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Mobile open source foundation uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for cloud-based developer platform
RALEIGH, N.C. – March 15, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its mobile device software, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a scalable, high-performance base for its private, cloud-based developer website and server.
The Symbian Foundation needed a reliable, cost-effective open source solution. It uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating system for its developer site developer.symbian.org, which acts as a single point of entry for users to access code, wikis, developer training and support. Red Hat also runs most of Symbian’s servers, which have been licensed through IBM Services.
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Customer: Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PG Telco)
Red Hat Partner: Zmanda
Industry: Telecommunications (PG Telco); Backup and Archival Software (Zmanda)
Geography: Prairie Grove, Arkansas (PG Telco); Sunnyvale, CA (Zmanda)
Business Challenge: Regional rural telecom company needed an enterprise-class backup and recovery system to ensure business continuity, and a reliable and scalable operating system that would prevent the servers from crashing
Software: Amanda Enterprise 3.0 open source backup and recovery solution from Zmanda; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Hardware: Intel-based Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic Enterprise-Class Virtualized iSCSI SAN
Migration path: CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Zmanda’s Amanda Enterprise ensures that PG Telco data is regularly backed up and archived; the rock-solid reliability, stability, and enterprise-class support for the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system ensures that servers running Amanda as well as other mission-critical applications are always available
Moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made the biggest difference in our ability to keep our servers up and available. There’s nothing wrong with running CentOS at home. But for business? No. We need the enterprise support. From now on, everything will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-Scott Griffin, systems engineer, PG Telco
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Customer: Carnation Auto
Red Hat Business Partner: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Industry: Automotive Service and Sales
Geography: Pan India
Business Challenge: To set up a centralised IT system and solution that functions as a single window to address the various needs of stakeholders (e.g., customers, business partners, and employees of Carnation)
Solution: Tata Consultancy Services leveraged its automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization running on HP ProLiant servers. Applications in the SAP Business Suite will help Carnation Auto gather information about customers, sales, and budgets - as it builds a truly unique auto services business.
Software: SAP Business Suite applications comprising DBM (Dealer Business Management), BI (Business Intelligence), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Financials, Sales and Distribution, Human Resources, and Material Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite
Hardware: HP ProLiant BL 460c G6 servers, EVA 4400 SAN Storage, Cisco NW solution at Data Center, MSL Tape Backup
Benefits: Achieved a highly cost-effective and secure system based on open standards that scales and performs to meet the increasing demands of the business, enhanced process efficiencies, leading to more rapid access to business intelligence
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“We considered a number of operating systems as the platform for our business-critical SAP applications, and after much testing and evaluation, we selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform on HP ProLiant servers because the combination met all of our requirements and provided the most overall value, stability, and performance."
Mohit Agarwal,chief information officer, Carnation Auto
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, Red Hat Support Services
, SAP
, Transportation
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Intel and HP Customer Success Story:
Customer: Arabian Automobiles
Business Challenge: Arabian Automobiles needed to transform its business technology infrastructure to support double-digit growth. This required increased performance, reliability, and scalability while adhering to open-standards based architectural principles
Solution: Following internal architectural principles and based on the recommendations of HP Services and Intel, Arabian Automobiles implemented Intel® Itanium processor–based HP Integrity servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux at the database tier and HP ProLiant server blades based on Intel® Xeon® processors at the application tier
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite: 38 modules with 20 additional major vertical extensions that support all business units, Oracle 9i RAC
Hardware: HP Integrity rx7640 Servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors, HP BL480c Server Blades with Intel Xeon processors, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrary
Benefits: Improved customer satisfaction by 15 percent, increased process automation to 80 percent from 40 percent, improved availability to 99.2 percent from, simplified management of IT with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on standards-based Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors. This provided a reliable, high-performance, and highly scalable infrastructure for Oracle® E-Business Suite and the integrated application modules running all of the company’s business units
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Background: One of the largest automobile distributors in the Middle East and the sole distributor for Nissan, Infiniti, and Renault in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The flagship company of the AW Rostamani Group, Arabian Automobiles believes its greatest asset is ensuring that every customer can leave any of its company showrooms with confidence that they are receiving the world’s finest driving technology backed by a level of service and support second to none.
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Company: ITI Neovision
Industry: Broadcast media
Geography: EMEA, Poland
Business Partner: Atom-Tech, Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in Poland recommended Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the solution
Business Challenge: ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local teams.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and Red Hat Cluster Suite
Hardware: HP BladeSystem BL460c
Migration Path: Gentoo Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: ITI Neovision has deployed a stable, reliable and officially supported platform which ensures availability of the company’s broadcast services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtualization has significantly improved hardware management in terms of full utilization of available servers. Red Hat virtualization can easily scale to accommodate the demand for new servers. The company has also achieved significant cost savings and obtained all the required components in one solution.
"With Red Hat we obtained everything we needed - operating system, virtualization, firewall etc. - in one package whereas with proprietary vendors we would have to buy everything separately. We have achieved significant cost savings by selecting the Red Hat solution.”
- Maciej Hajduk, IT Infrastructure Manager, ITI Neovision.
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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
, Red Hat Global File System
, RHEL Migration Path
, Virtualization
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Company: Alpine Electronics
Industry: Electronics: Consumer
Geography: United States
Business Challenge: Without a single integrated enterprise resource planning and supply chain management solution, Alpine lacked the consolidated business data required for accurate long-term planning
Software: SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP 6.0, SAP NetWeaver, IBM Cognos 8 Planning, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Systemx: System x3850
Solution: IBM Global Business Services leveraged its electronics and automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite. Niteo, an IBM Business Partner, also helped to implement IBM Cognos Planning, which captures sales and budget data downloaded from the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse system at the Japanese headquarters location
Benefits: Enhanced process efficiencies have led to much more rapid access to business intelligence. By using SAP ERP, monthly financial closes can be completed up to 30 percent faster than before, and there has been a 40 percent reduction in operational workload for the finance department.
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Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security
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Customer: Tintas Iquine
Industry: Manufacturing: Paint and Tints
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Increase the stability and performance of business critical ERP applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Datasul, Progress Database, Trend Micro Security Solution
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers
Migration Path: UNIX/RISC based servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Red Hat virtualization enabled increased stability, performances, and increased security on redundancy and backup, and Red Hat Satellite simplified systems management
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, North America
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, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
, Virtualization
2009 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
COMPANY: Whole Foods Market
CATEGORY: Management Excellence
INDUSTRY: Consumer
GEOGRAPHY: North America
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost-effective operating platform and complementary management solution that would scale with the company's growth while increasing the security, manageability, and availability of business-critical applications
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: 75 HP x86 servers, 16 virtual servers
BENEFITS: Obtained an easy-to-use and reliable systems management solution that enabled increased productivity and reduced costs by increasing system administrator efficiency; Experienced increased performance and internal-user satisfaction of homegrown applications, including order processing applications.
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Company: Banco Pastor
Industry: Financial Services Banking
Geography:Spain
Business Challenge: Improve payroll and human resource systems management and achieve cost savings performance improvements with an upgrade of the email infrastructure
Migration Path: From distributed platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes
Solution: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes to run SAP NetWeaver, SAP ERP, and IBM Lotus Notes software
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server v5.3, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SR3, SAP ERP 6.0 SR3, and IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration 7.0.2
Hardware: Two IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes, three and four IFLs
Benefits: The new email platform reduced recurrent costs by 30 percent, improved performance for IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration software and SAP applications, and guaranteed an exhaustive and scalable control of resources
“We have chosen Red Hat for the quality of its solutions and its outstanding technical support. Both Red Hat and IBM have clearly understood our project objectives, and together with Banco Pastor have been thoroughly committed to the proposal. We have built a very strong platform. We are delighted with what we have achieved.”
Montserrat Torres, computer systems manager of Banco Pastor
“Through the server consolidation benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class, customers like Banco Pastor can invest in innovative solutions that deliver important cost reductions and improve their services and security. The proven performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z allows Banco Pastor to increase their response capability and the availability of their business applications.”
Carlos Roldan, IBM System z Manager in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Israel
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IBM CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
Customer: Queensland Motorways
Industry:Travel & Transportation
Geography:Australia
Business need: Heavy traffic on Brisbane's motorways was creating congestion, lengthening journey times for motorists and reducing travel reliability for local businesses. Toll plazas added to the problem, creating a choke point for motorists slowing to pay tolls. The Queensland Government, in conjunction with Queensland Motorways, which manages and operates the Gateway Bridge, Gateway Extension and Logan Motorways, decided to embark on a major upgrade project to enable traffic to flow more freely.
Solution:To support the Gateway Upgrade Project, Queensland Motorways wanted to implement free-flow tolling on its motorways. IBM Global Business Services was contracted to design, build, test, and deploy the intelligent free-flow tolling central system solution based on technology from IBM, SAP, Dacolian, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The SAP applications, identification, rating and interoperability applications, Internet Web portal and Oracle databases run on an IBM Power 570 server with 16 IBM POWER6 4.7GHz processors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used as the operating system for the entire environment.
Software: Business Integration, Energy Efficiency, Enterprise Resource Planning, IT/infrastructure, Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Service Oriented Architecture, Smarter Planet, Transforming IT, SAP
Hardware: BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS21, Storage: DS8000, System p: Power 570.
Benefits:
The solution allows Queensland Motorways to combine its knowledge of commuters' travel patterns with real-time data on traffic conditions to recommend fastest routes and avoid congestion. This helps to speed journeys, reduce congestion, and cut exhaust emissions. Drivers no longer have to stop to pay tolls, which reduces congestion, increases safety and enhances network reliability.
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COMPANY: Union Bank, N.A.
CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives
INDUSTRY: Financial Services
GEOGRAPHY: Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Improved reliability and scalability, cut costs, and delivered new financial services and products to market faster
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, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Seam
, JBoss Training
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat + JBoss: The Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Red Hat Solutions
, Red Hat Systems Management
, Red Hat Training
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
COMPANY: GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company)
CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives
INDUSTRY: Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: US
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Existing proprietary middleware platform was complex to manage, not performing and scaling as expected and expensive to maintain. The architecture team decided to investigate alternatives that could be deployed that would better meet their needs.
MIGRATION PATH: Proprietary middleware platform to JBoss Enterprise Middleware
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: 28 bands (1 band = 32 CPUs), JBoss Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Consulting, Amentra
HARDWARE: 50 Dell servers
BENEFITS: Reduced the total cost of ownership by more than 30%, throughput gain of 3X with utilization down to 1/3rd of the current platform, overall resource utilization went from above 50% to under 10% which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.
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, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on Microsoft Windows
, JBoss Operating System
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Partner
, Proprietary to JBoss
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Support Services
, Technical Account Manager
COMPANY: Verizon Communications Inc.
INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Telecom; Broadband, Wireless, Wireline
GEOGRAPHY: North America
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a reliable and cost effective solution for its SAP and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning applications that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX-based SMP platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle RAC
HARDWARE: 300 Dell and HP servers
BENEFITS: Reduced costs, improved performance, increased ability to scale and prepared for future growth, increased energy conservation efforts
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, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
, SAP
, Telco
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COMPANIES: Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) and Optaros
CATEGORY: Extensive Ecosystem
INDUSTRY: Convention center management
GEOGRAPHY: Boston, MA
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Manual processes and siloed systems resulted in inefficient workflows that caused customer service to suffer.
MIGRATION PATH: From a Microsoft™ Windows - based client-server application to service oriented architecture (SOA) J2EE application based upon the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, J2EE™, Google Web Toolkit™, Apache
HARDWARE: Intel Xeon™ - based x86 servers
BENEFITS: More efficient and timely access to data and an automated streamlined workflow that improved worker productivity and customer service levels and increased revenues. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations are run using open source technologies.
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, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss jBPM
, JBoss on Microsoft Windows
, JBoss Operating System
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Partner
, Proprietary to JBoss
COMPANY: American Family Mutual Insurance Company
INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Management Excellence
INDUSTRY: Property and Casualty Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: North America
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost effective centralized management solution for its 1,200 instances of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure
MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network
SOFTWARE:JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on 150 plus systems, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, HP OpenView
HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers
BENEFITS: Improved availability and reliability of applications, a monitoring solution that can manage a large number of application server instances, simplified management, enhanced management and monitoring, and reduced costs
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, Geography
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, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on Microsoft Windows
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Operations Network
, JBoss Training
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Partner
, Proprietary to JBoss
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat + JBoss: The Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Systems Management
Australian Insurance Company Saves $500,000 by Migrating from Windows and WebSphere to Red Hat Platform and JBoss Middleware Solutions, Gains Increased Flexibility, Scalability and Freedom
COMPANY:Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz)
CATEGORY: Carved Out Costs
INDUSTRY: Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: Australia
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Rebuild Allianz's IT infrastructure based on a flexible and scalable platform that could leverage new virtualisation technology to generate hardware and support savings, and reduce its underlying software and operations costs for several strategic business application projects
MIGRATION PATH: Windows and Intel-based infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 mainframe and from Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware on Intel processor based HP ProLiant servers.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: IBM System z10 mainframe, HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Significant reduction in middleware software and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in
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, Industry
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
, Virtualization
COMPANIES: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Rivet Logic
CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Cambridge, Massachusetts
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The HBP's ability to get new products to market and the quality of the customer experience at its e-commerce site were hindered by a proprietary operating system, a difficult-to-use legacy content management system (CMS), and inflexible customer-facing Web applications, which were negatively impacting the HBP's revenues and limiting growth
MIGRATION PATH: From a proprietary operating system running a proprietary legacy CMS application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running the Alfresco Content Management System
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Frameworks including JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, jBPM, Oracle Database, and Alfresco's open source Content Management System
HARDWARE: Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based Dell™ 2950 multicore servers
BENEFITS: Increased employee productivity, lowered IT operational costs, and increased Web site traffic and e-commerce transactions
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: Consumer
, Dell
, Education
, Geography
, Industry
, Intel
, JBoss Advanced Business Partner
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss jBPM
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Seam
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
FAST FACTS
Industry: Construction & Engineering
Geography: Headquarters and global operations is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein
Business Challenge: To migrate all SAP® business-critical applications from a
discontinued legacy UNIX environment to a scalable and reliable platform and to eliminate vendor
lock-in
Migration Path: HP Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64
commodity based hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System
(GFS), ATIX Open-Sharedroot Extension, SAP applications including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform
Hardware: 185 HP ProLiant servers, the largest machines have 32 CPUs with 128GB RAM
Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; achieved an estimated 50 percent overall cost reduction; increased performance by more than 100 percent; provided ease of management and reliable uptime; reduced electricity costs and carbon footprint; and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that will help retain expert knowledge and enable the team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing, sales and service organization
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"We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing. Since migrating, we have have experienced increased performance of more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-- Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, HP
, Industry
, International
, Manufacturing
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat + JBoss: The Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Global File System
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Red Hat Solutions
, Red Hat Support Services
, RHEL Migration Path
, SAP
, Technical Account Manager
, Tru64 to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal
FAST FACTS
Industry: Publishing
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To replace inefficient, incumbent systems with a reliable and affordable standardised system
Migration Path: A number of different platforms, including Tomcat, to one standardised platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Hardware: x86 commodity hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including JBoss Hibernate
Benefits: Gained increased knowledge management, expanded stability, and reduced operational costs
“We are more than happy with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Our 60-strong development team are happy with the implementation and the operation teams understand it, laying strong foundations for the future."
-- Peter Hanlon, chief technical architect, Trader Media Group
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: Consumer
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, Geography
, Industry
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, RHEL Migration Path
FAST FACTS
Company: SNS Bank
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Netherlands
Middleware: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and jBPM
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Flexible and high-performance platform; fast, standardized development, cost effective, low total cost of ownership.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Financial Services
, Geography
, Industry
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss jBPM
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
FAST FACTS
Company: Gap Inc. Direct
Industry: Clothing Online Retail
Geography: San Francisco
Business Challenge: Ensuring security and payment card industry compliance while managing system level access across the enterprise
Migration Path: UNIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Likewise Enterprise
Hardware: 1,500 Intel-based IBM blade servers
Benefits: Savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on reduced administrative and hardware costs associated with compliance and security requirements. Compliance with PCI and SOX requirements through automatic authentication of users across a mixed systems environment.
“The ROI [return on investment] of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is up to several hundred thousand dollars annually once you add all of the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs associated with manually auditing the systems. Likewise Enterprise's compliance enhancements allowed us to control user access and permissions, thus enabling us to grow our Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.”
-- Jeff Arcuri, senior manager, IT for GAP Inc. Direct
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: Consumer
, Geography
, IBM
, Industry
, Microsoft to RHEL
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
FAST FACTS
Industry: Transportation
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
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, Consumer
, Geography
, Industry
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Seam
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Transportation
Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers
FAST FACTS
Company: YPF SA
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Argentina
Business Challenge: Renovate proprietary infrastructure with the goal of reducing costs and boosting performance with open source solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 10g DB, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x 346, 366, 3650, 3850 servers
Migration Path: From SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Reduced capital and operational costs, boosted performance and efficiency of administrators, increased internal customer satisfaction by reducing implementation time, increased scalability and agility, and expanded flexibility
“Now, more than 80 percent of our Oracle databases and 90 percent of our SAP applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based servers and is the choice for our SAP and Oracle implementations."
--Adriana Marisa Vázquez, responsible for the UNIX administration group at YPF.
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: AIX to RHEL
, Consumer
, Geography
, HPUX to RHEL
, IBM
, Industry
, Intel
, Latin America
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Red Hat Ready ISVs
, Red Hat Support Services
, RHEL Migration Path
, SAP
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
, Utilities: Oil, Gas, Electric
, Virtualization
Fast Facts
Industry: Education
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To launch an extranet service that would be available to its external users of more than 35,000 examiners and moderators
Migration path: Proprietary, closed solution to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application platform
Solution:
Hardware – HP ProLiant Servers
Software – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alfresco ECM, Enterprise DB
Benefits: Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), including cost and efficiency savings of £250,000 per year, and freedom from vendor lock-in
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: Consumer
, Education
, EMEA
, Geography
, HP
, Industry
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Media + Technology
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Partner
, Proprietary to JBoss
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Solutions
, Red Hat Systems Management
FAST FACTS
Customer: Aviza Technology
Industry: Electronics
Deployment Country: United States
Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning
Business Partner: IBM
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun SPARC to IBM System x
Business Need: When end-of-life issues on the company’s existing Sun hardware began impacting the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Aviza sought a cost-effective systems solution from IBM.
Solution: Aviza implemented a two-tier Oracle configuration, with Oracle EBS v11.5.10 on one IBM System x3850 4-socket server and Oracle Database 10g on one IBM System x3950 16-socket server—both running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM System Storage N5200 provides 2.4 TB of data storage. The development environment has six test instances running on five x3850 servers, with a second N5200 providing 7.2 TB of data storage.
Benefits: Aviza Technology achieved a multifold increase in solution performance, enabled new levels of systems scalability and flexibility across the company's global IT infrastructure, and better positioned the company to meet unforeseen IT system challenges.
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: Consumer
, Geography
, IBM
, Industry
, Intel
, North America
, Oracle
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
FAST FACTS
Company: Discount Tire Company
Industry: Consumer - Automotive Retail
Geography: Scottsdale, Arizona
Business Challenge: Support the rapidly growing e-commerce side of the business while keeping costs contained and complying with strict PCI security standards
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, Apache, WebLogic, IBM Lotus Domino Server, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: 50 Dell x86 servers
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Provided an easily managed, secure, and utterly reliable platform for Discount Tire’s e-commerce business. Enabled compliance with PCI security standards. Increased IT staff productivity and contained costs due to the ability to easily provision, maintain, and manage servers.
“I’ve been in the IT industry for about 20 years now, and Red Hat is far and above any other company I’ve ever worked with. Not only are its products of the highest caliber, but it is incredibly responsive to all our needs. Red Hat support is top-of-the-line, and the Red Hat phone number is on my phone’s speed dial, and it is going to stay there.”
-- Will Darton, senior server support administrator, Discount Tire.
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: Consumer
, Geography
, IBM
, Industry
, Microsoft to RHEL
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
FAST FACTS
Company: Educational Testing Service (ETS)
Industry: Education
Geography: International
Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that will position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: Vertically scalable platform to commodity software and hardware platform and proprietary application server technology to Open source technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable, secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.
With Red Hat products, ETS achieves the following benefits (metrics are based on the current server-hardware and OS support service cost at ETS:
- Cost savings (approximately 40 percent)
- Improved efficiency (approximately 30 percent)
- Improved technology management and standardization
- Improved leverage of development resources
- Better positioned for adoption of cloud computing and virtualization technologies
“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription were the obvious choice at that time.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
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: Consumer
, Education
, Geography
, HPUX to RHEL
, IBM WebSphere to JBoss
, Industry
, Intel
, International
, JBoss Consulting Customers
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Operations Network
, JBoss.org to JBoss
, Media + Technology
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
FAST FACTS
Company: Sherwin-Williams Company
Industry: Paint and Coatings
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.
“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams
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: Consumer
, Geography
, HPUX to RHEL
, Industry
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Training
, Microsoft to RHEL
, North America
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
Rivet Logic Helps New Gravity Venture Deploy the Application on Alfresco, JBoss, Ingres, and Red Hat
SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
As Facebook seeks to expand beyond purely social networking, New Gravity Ventures enters the market with ConnectedWeddings.com, a Facebook application that offers an innovative and easier way to plan weddings. The new application enables couples anywhere to use Facebook, an iPhone or the Web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding page-all for free.
The two most important criteria for the Facebook application were scalability and the ability to derive optimal value from the content and present it to consumers in unique ways. New Gravity Ventures also required a solution that would empower end-users with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the application's social networking capability.
Rivet Logic chose Alfresco as the content management platform for ConnectedWeddings.com because of its ability to support content-rich applications. Rivet Logic deployed a solution based on an open source infrastructure stack that included the Alfresco content management platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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: Consumer
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, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Enterprise Platforms
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Media + Technology
, North America
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Ready ISVs
Armonk, NY, and Raleigh, NC. 22 April 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Handelsbanken, one of the four largest banks in the Nordic Area, has achieved strong business continuity, security and cost-efficiency results by deploying virtualization technology using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z servers and IBM System z operating system, z/OS. The bank’s newly deployed technology solution will help maintain a highly resilient and secure network that scales based on business demands.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Financial Services
, Geography
, IBM
, Industry
, International
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
, Virtualization
Fast Facts:
Company: SPH Search
Industry: Information technology
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: SPH Search needed a reliable and secure solution to drive its new search engine services, Rednano,sg
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Hardware: HP Intel Xeon-based servers
Benefits: Established a robust, reliable, and secure search engine with the confidence of enterprise-level support
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: APAC
, Consumer
, Geography
, HP
, Industry
, Intel
, International
, Media + Technology
, Partner
, Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
, Red Hat Global File System
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Red Hat Solutions
, Red Hat Systems Management
FAST FACTS
Company: AutoTrader.com
Industry: Automotive information and sales
Geography: Atlanta
Business Challenge: Rock-solid support needed to move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and off-the-shelf applications
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Benefits: Smooth migration to a new IT infrastructure. Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical expertise. Improved productivity of internal IT support staff.
“Any company that has anything important running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux would benefit from a TAM. Even in times like these, when additional expenditures are difficult to justify, the TAM service is worth every penny. It more than pays for itself in the time it saves and the competitive edge it provides."
–Mark Juliano, UNIX Systems Manager, AutoTrader.com
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: Consumer
, Geography
, Industry
, Media + Technology
, North America
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Red Hat Support Services
, RHEL Migration Path
, Technical Account Manager
, Transportation
, UNIX to RHEL
2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem
FAST FACTS
Industry: Finance/banking
Geography: New Zealand
Business Challenge: Address environmental and space issues in the datacentre and achieve the corporate goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2010
Migration Path: From distributed Intel and SUN SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running under z/VM on IBM z9 and z10 mainframes
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Oracle database, WebSphere Application Server, ESB, Process Server, TX and MQ
Hardware: 1x IBM z9 and 1x IBM z10 mainframe (with 3 x IFL engines in each)
Benefits:- Recovered 30 percent of datacenter floor space
- Reduced power consumption by 38 percent
- 20 percent return on investment (ROI) over the life of the platform
- Simplified, more efficient deployment
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: APAC
, Consumer
, Financial Services
, Geography
, IBM
, Industry
, International
, Partner
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
FAST FACTS
Company: Tribune Company
Industry: Media
Geography: Chicago
Business Challenge: Reduce costs and time-to-market of new interactive products by moving to a virtualized environment based on x86 machines and open source Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Hardware: Commodity Dell and IBM x86 systems
Benefits: Cut capital as well as ongoing operational infrastructure costs, and boost competitiveness by flexibly bringing new products to market more quickly
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: Consumer
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, Geography
, IBM
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, North America
, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Global File System
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, Virtualization
FAST FACTS
Industry: Real Estate
Geography: Germany
Business Challenge: Dramatically reduce energy use and operating costs while improving overall performance and manageability of servers and maintaining zero downtime
Migration Path: 32-bit Windows server environment to 64-bit server environment based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in virtualization technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Global Support Services
Hardware: HP Blade Systems
Benefits: Reduced energy usage by 25 percent and hardware cost per server by 60 percent, carved out operations costs by 10 percent with streamlined systems management, achieved full return on investment for the project within three months, and maintains consistent zero downtime
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, HP
, International
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
, RHEL Migration Path
, Virtualization
FAST FACTS
Industry: Media
Geography: India
Challenge: To transform existing legacy infrastructure into a future-ready solution, while protecting existing investments, and giving the group the foundation to accelerate cost effectively
Migration Path: Novell Netware 3.12 OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with Oracle 10g Database
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1900, 2800 and 2900 Server series, 64-bit Intel Xeon processors
Benefits: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has given Indian Express a highly available, secure, and reliable platform with freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to scale cost-effectively without subsequent investments in hardware.
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: Consumer
, Dell
, EMEA
, Geography
, Industry
, Intel
, International
, Oracle
, Partner
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, RHEL Migration Path
, SAP
FAST FACTS
Industry: Tourism and hospitality
Geography: Spain
Challenge: Provide greater performance and stability for the company’s web platform with the fundamental objective to increase online sales
Migration Path: Oracle Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v4, and JBoss Operation Network
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server 4.2 and Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux 4.0
Hardware: 3 + 2 servers, 2 for Application Server, 1 for JBoss ON, 2 servers for Oracle database on HP-UX.
Benefits: Improved performance, stability, and scalability of the platform, while also enhancing architecture control
“The continuous increase in online sales made through the web means the priority of the Corporate IT department must be to seek maximum availability and performance of the technology platform. Red Hat solutions have proven to exceed expectations for the the current and future needs of our platform.”
-- Ricardo Mardomingo, IT Manager of NH Hoteles.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, HP
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Frameworks
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operations Network
, Oracle
, Proprietary to JBoss
FAST FACTS
Industry: Real estate
Customer: All Homes
Geography: Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
Business Challenge: Rebuild the All Homes Pty Ltd technology platform in order to modernise its website, ensuring an optimal user experience and equipping the site with support for future expansion plans
Migration Path: Outdated, costly software and hardware solutions to enterprise Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Hibernate Framework
Solution:
- Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Hardware: IBM xSeries x3550 and x3560 servers
Benefits: Experienced increased performance, reliability, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
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: APAC
, Consumer
, Geography
, IBM
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss on RHEL
, RHEL Migration Path
FAST FACTS
Industry: Travel
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: To increase performance, reduce costs, and expand scalability for a mission-critical, rapidly evolving IT architecture requiring 100 percent uptime
Migration Path: Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Hardware: HPx86 and Intel
Benefits: Achieved system reliability, 90 percent cost savings, 3x performance gains, and unmatched scalability, while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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: Consumer
, Geography
, HP
, Intel
, North America
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, Success Story Videos
, Transportation
, Tru64 to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
FAST FACTS
Customer: Centrebet
Industry: Consumer
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To establish an open source platform to support Centrebet’s OpenBet online betting application and provide the reliability demanded by a 24x7x365 business
Migration Path: Mixture of heterogeneous systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Solution:
- Software: OpenBet, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite
- Hardware: 10 x HP DL360 G5, 10 x Sun Sunfire x4200
Benefits: Experienced increased performance results, lowered costs with the elimination of licensing costs and easy-to-manage maintenance for its solution
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: APAC
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, Migration Path to JBoss
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Network Satellite
Airport migrates servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network
Raleigh, NC – August 6, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years as Europe's "Airport of the Year" by air transport research company Skytrax, has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost savings and reliable support.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, Industry
, International
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Cluster Suite
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
, Red Hat Network
, Red Hat Support Services
, RHEL Migration Path
, SAP
, Solaris to RHEL
, Transportation
, UNIX to RHEL
Customer: Europcar
Industry: Transportation
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s business objectives by delivering a robust technology platform to improve productivity and reduce costs
Migration Path: Intel-based variant of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: 2 x HP BL45P blades
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, reliability, stability, performance, flexibility, scalability, and ease of management
"Europcar customers know that the car they reserve is the car they will get because they interface directly with our core reservations system. With the performance and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we’re given the security and reliability that keeps our customers happy.” - Scott Allen, CIO at Europcar Asia Pacific
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, RHEL Migration Path
, Success Story Videos
, UNIX to RHEL
Fast Facts
Customer: Europcar
Industry: Transportation
Geography: Australia
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements
Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”
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: APAC
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, EMEA
, Geography
, Industry
, International
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
, RHEL Migration Path
Red Hat middleware platform enables development and deployment of services in service-oriented architecture, offering enhanced productivity and system reliability
Raleigh NC – February 19, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has significantly increased the productivity and reliability of its systems and has gained important business and economic advantages.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, Government
, International
, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
, Proprietary to JBoss
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Raleigh NC – February 13, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that The Decurion Corporation, a real estate and movie exhibition corporation, has achieved success with a full suite of Red Hat solutions. Since implementing JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System for Decurion's ArcLight Cinemas website, the company has experienced enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
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: Consumer
, Geography
, HP
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss on Microsoft Windows
, JBoss Seam
, North America
, Proprietary to JBoss
, Small/Medium Business
EsSalud utilizes virtualization capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Raleigh NC – November 28, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that EsSalud, a state-owned insurance and service provider in Peru offering medical and economic benefits that cover eight million regularly insured parties and successors, has experienced success with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. With the solution's virtualization capabilities, the company has stabilized its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project.
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: AIX to RHEL
, Consumer
, Financial Services
, Geography
, International
, JBoss on RHEL
, Latin America
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
, Virtualization
Food retailer selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux as platform of choice; adds Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Global File System and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — September 12, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Axfood, one of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia, has decided to standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Axfood will use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a platform for its strategic SAP environment and will also use the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in the company's core production environment.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, International
, JBoss on RHEL
, SAP
Airline utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network and services; makes plans for an extended JBoss implementation
Raleigh, NC - August 15, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Virgin America, the newly launched American airline, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform on which to host its commercial website. The airline chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its reputation for scalability and security.
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: Consumer
, JBoss on RHEL
, North America
, Red Hat Network
Migrating business-critical store applications to Red Hat solutions means simplified maintenance and freedom from vendor lock-in
Raleigh, NC - June 18, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Specsavers, the UK's most trusted optician, is migrating all of its servers, desktops and tills from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its 830 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain. Specsavers selected Red Hat solutions for its Linux open standard strategy because they enabled the company to standardize applications on a Java platform without vendor lock-in. Since migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Specsavers has experienced a stable and future-proof platform, in addition to enjoying a reduced need for maintenance and increased reliability.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, Healthcare
, Industry
, International
, JBoss on RHEL
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
, Virtualization
Kingfisher, Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, switches to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its 240 Castorama and Brico-Dépôt stores.
RALEIGH, NC - February 20, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Kingfisher Group, Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, is migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle databases for all 240 of its Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores because of Red Hat's superior stability, service and support. Red Hat has enabled the company to reduce the number of servers it requires by half and make a return on its investment in just eight months. At the same time, Kingfisher is benefiting from a ten-fold increase in performance.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, International
, JBoss on RHEL
, Oracle
, Red Hat Support Services
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
deRemate.com implements Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for cost savings, reliability and scalability
Raleigh NC – March 25, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that
deRemate.com, a leading online trade community with presence in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, has migrated to Red Hat and JBoss solutions to create an in-house-controlled portal to enable the payment of purchases completed through the company's online retail sites throughout the region. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Dell PowerEdge hardware, the company has achieved cost savings, reliability, ease of implementation and scalability.
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: Consumer
, Dell
, Geography
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss on RHEL
, Latin America
Experiences 500 percent increase in website capacity after implementing Red Hat and JBoss technologies
Industry: Real Estate and Movie Exhibition Corporation
Challenge: With a growing online customer base, Decurion's ArcLightCenmas.com looked to fix issues with its ticket sales website, previously based on Microsoft's .NET framework.
Migration Path: .NET framework to JBoss Enterprise Applciation Platform
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Global File System
Benefits: Enhanced support and increased performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness.
Geography: Los Angeles, CA
"JBoss Enterprise Middleware helps us accelerate solution delivery because it provides the beneficial features associated with open source solutions, combined with easy deployment and impressive customer service and support."
Brad Bahmanpour, Enterprise Systems Architect at Decurion
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: Consumer
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Operating System
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Proprietary to JBoss
, Red Hat Global File System
, Red Hat Support Services
, Small/Medium Business
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Industry: Retail
Geography: France
Opportunity: The aim was to free CAMIF from overly-complex nested systems and come up with a more efficient information system which was structured
by business activity, thus enabling more transparent and targeted intervention.
Solution: CAMIF has built its technical base using Open Source components and can now offer business applications as both development frameworks and cross-functional services.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Rules, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Eclipse IDE
Benefits: There are currently three application groups that benefit from the new architecture, which now integrates open source solutions, including several modules from the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Project summary: The CAMIF Group, a multi-specialist distributor and the third largest French mail-order company, offers a range that extends from household appliances and personal equipment to supplying local authorities and from home furnishings to fine foods, without forgetting financial products. In 2003, the company took the step of progressively decommissioning their twenty-year-old HP3000 servers and completely revising the software architecture that was in place.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, International
, JBoss Consulting Customers
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise BRMS
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss Training
, Migration Path to JBoss
, Proprietary to JBoss
Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Winner:Big Lots
Submitted by: Big Lots Application Architecture Team
Industry: Retail
Geography: Columbus, OH
Overview
Big Lots used the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam to develop and implement an interactive Inventory Management System usable across a variety of devices (Point-of-Sale, mobile handheld, and back-office server) in 705 retail stores across the US (rollout to its fleet of approximately 1,350 stores will complete in 2008). The Inventory Management System is part of a multi-year store technology refresh project. Thus far, the changes have resulted in increased productivity at the front end, improved customer experience, and improved ability to respond to future business initiatives.
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: Consumer
, JBoss Consulting Customers
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on Microsoft Windows
, JBoss Operating System
, JBoss Seam
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Red Hat Support Services
Selected by the community as the 2006 JBoss Innovator of the Year
Category: Service Orientated Architecture
Winner:RLPTechnologies
Submitted by: RLPTechnologies Team (see below)
Industry: Bio Engineering
Geography: Farmington Hills, Michigan
Overview
Selected for their use of JBoss AS and Hibernate as the foundation for their SOA-based platform that has revolutionized how data is collected, enhanced and compiled to increase data-file processing performance by 70%, increase scalability by 400%, and enrich the timeliness, accuracy and quality of R.L. Polk’s data for the automotive industry.
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: Consumer
, Geography
, JBoss Consulting Customers
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
, JBoss Hibernate
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Training
, Media + Technology
, North America
, Red Hat Consulting
Category: Return on Investment (ROI)
Winner: Kroger
Submitted by: Kroger Team
Industry: Retail
Geography: Cincinnati, Ohio
Overview
Selected for building out a shared infrastructure (grid) system on JBoss AS that deploys the majority of their mission-critical applications, boosting overall capacity by 40% and saving Kroger over $100,000 in licensing costs and $400 per CPU in yearly maintenance costs.
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: Consumer
, Geography
, IBM WebSphere to JBoss
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Innovation Awards
, JBoss Training
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Red Hat Support Services
Industry: Transportation
Geography: Sweden
Opportunity: Build a new development platform to rapidly deliver integrated IT projects across the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JBoss AS 4.2, ESB 4.2, JBoss Messaging 1.4), EnterpriseDB
Hardware: 2 IBM xSeries 346 servers
Benefits: Increased time-to-market of services for customers, increased ROI and interest in rail travel, eliminated licensing costs for the platform, integrated IT systems, and avoided vendor lock-in
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BACKGROUND
Swedish Railways (SJ AB), the national railway operator in Sweden, travels between 350 stations and carries 100,000 passengers per day. The company maintains approximately 3,500 employees and boasts a yearly revenue of 1.3 billion dollars.
OPPORTUNITY
In May 2006, SJ AB recognized the need to upgrade its internal software delivery system in order to provide a shared platform for all of its IT systems. The integration of the IT systems is essential for SJ AB as it uses a diverse range of applications relevant to human resources, sales, and other departments. Each applications needs to be accessed across a range of interfaces from PCs to PDAs. A new department called the Integration Competence Centre (ICC) was established within SJ AB with assistance from Redpill. The ICC is responsible of establishing the Integration platform and deliver service based integration solutions and new service according to SJ AB requirements.
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, IBM
, International
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
, JBoss on RHEL
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Industry: e-commerce
Geography: Seattle, Washington
Website::
www.go2marine.com
Opportunity: Determine a reliable, high-performing, and affordable platform on which to base its e-commerce website
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell 1950 servers, Web/application servers quad core single CPU, Database servers dual core single CPU
Benefits: Realized reliability, high performance, cost savings, ease of installation and configuration, and enhanced security.
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: Consumer
, Dell
, Geography
, Industry
, North America
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, Small/Medium Business
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
Industry: Research
Geography: Arkansas, Tennessee, New York
Opportunity: Replace outdated IT solutions with an affordable, reliable, and performance-boosting solution for mission-critical applications
Migration Path: HP 3000 series to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server on HP Xenon dual-processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
Hardware: HP Xenon 380 dual-processors
Benefits: Reduced IT costs by approximately one-third, experienced high performance, enjoyed ease of installation
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: Consumer
, HP
, HPUX to RHEL
, JBoss on RHEL
, North America
, Partner
, RHEL Migration Path
, Small/Medium Business
, UNIX to RHEL
Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies
Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer
Vertical: Broadband services
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Website: http://www.comcast.com
Overview
Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
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: Consumer
, HP
, Media + Technology
, North America
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Innovation Awards
, Red Hat Support Services
, Virtualization
Industry: Food Manufacturing
Geography: Italy
Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods
Solution:
- Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
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: Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, IBM
, International
, Manufacturing
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Support Services
, Virtualization
Industry: Business equipment supply and distribution
Geography: Australia
Challenge: To deliver an efficient service to customers, Corporate Express required a solution that was stable and secure, yet also flexible enough to support its bespoke online ordering application, NetXpress.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: Approximately 14 Intel blade servers
Benefits: - High availability/reliability
Scalability
Security
Low administration costs - Flexibility and agility
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, Consumer
, Geography
, Intel
, International
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Network
Industry: Digital advertising
Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services - Red Hat Certified Engineer training
Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP
Benefits:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided DoubleClick with flexibility and power of choice in selecting a hardware vendor to avoid lock-in.
- Using Red Hat solutions helped DoubleClick save over $500,000 in hardware costs. DoubleClick now has the ability to handle more work load with fewer CPUs, as it ported 112 CPUs to 64 CPUs.
- With the help of Acronis solutions, DoubleClick enjoyed an easy and quick migration from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 in one hour.
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: AMD
, APAC
, Consumer
, EMEA
, Geography
, HP
, Industry
, Intel
, North America
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Ready ISVs
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
Industry: Travel
Geography: Australia
Challenge: Microsoft-based infrastructure could not scale to match Wotif.com's 100% growth rate.
Solution: Platform:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
Software:
Oracle10g Standard Edition, Java 1.5
Hardware:
AMD Opteron
Systems Management:
Red Hat Network
Benefits: Increased performance upto 500% peak load. Lower TCO. Simplified systems administration
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: AMD
, APAC
, Consumer
, Geography
, International
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Oracle
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, Red Hat Network
, RHEL Migration Path
, UNIX to RHEL
Priceline.com looks toward the future with virtualization
Industry: Travel services
Geography: United States
Opportunity: Priceline.com regularly sees millions of page views and thousands of bookings per day. As an Internet-based travel service provider, downtime and outages are not an option. The company decided to shift to Red Hat and open source solutions in order to provide the highest-performing services and applications possible and to realize cost savings. Priceline.com also evaluated JBoss due to the company's predisposition toward developing in Java and to potentially generate further savings based on the open source model.
Solution: Today, Priceline.com has about half of the infrastructure converted over to a mixture of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and
JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Hardware: Sun V20z servers with AMD Opteron, HP ProLiant DL385 servers with AMD Opteron, and HP ProLiant DL380 with Intel Xeon.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite Server, and JBoss Application Server with Tomcat and Apache web servers.
Benefits: The combination of Red Hat and JBoss has been a win-win for Priceline.com. Priceline.com's application availability runs >99.97 percent and hits 100 percent for most quarters. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the company has realized reduced security patching requirements than with some proprietary application servers. Through a series of initiatives, like the company's JBoss implementation, Priceline.com IT has been successful in proportionally reducing its relevant domestic operational IT budgets for this type of infrastructure, despite increases in product complexity and product unit volumes. Forward-looking, Xen support and virtualization technologies are extremely attractive to Priceline.com. The company has been testing Xen in its development environments to reduce hardware costs and lower TCO.
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: AMD
, Consumer
, Geography
, HP
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
, JBoss on RHEL
, Media + Technology
, North America
, Red Hat Network
Finding a better way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications:
Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions,
HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware:
HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
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: Consumer
, Geography
, Government
, HP
, Industry
, International
, North America
, Oracle
, Partner
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
Industry: Financial
Geography: North Quincy, Massachusetts (also New Jersey)
Challenge: CitiStreet faced increasing volume on its Web applications, both from an expanding client base and increased utilization of the Web by the plan participants they service. An earlier migration-from a C-based solution to Enterprise Java-had been successful but now required ongoing improvement. CitiStreet needed to future-proof its Web infrastructure and stay on budget.
Solution: Software:
JBoss Application Server 3.2,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Sun Java Virtual Machine 5.0
Hardware:
HP ProLiant DL series servers (DL 580s and DL 360s)
Services:
JBoss Consulting, JBoss On-site Training,
JBoss Platinum Subscription,
Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Support delivered through HP
Benefits: Significantly increased hardware resources without incurring any software licensing costs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost savings per year with subscriptions to Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network. Improved performance and user experience on CitiStreet website. A resilient, highly-available, secure infrastructure to support long-term business growth. High-quality and responsive 24x7x365 support from knowledgeable, technical staff.
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: Consumer
, Financial Services
, Geography
, HP
, Industry
, International
, JBoss Consulting Customers
, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
, JBoss on RHEL
, JBoss Training
, Migration Path to JBoss
, North America
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Consulting
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
, WebLogic to JBoss
Bank expects to save $1 million over two years after adopting Linux as its infrastructure platform.
Industry: Banking
Geography: India
Central Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India. Established in 1911, it was the first Indian commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by Indians. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, founder of the Bank proudly declared on its establishment that Central Bank was the 'property of the nation and the country's asset.' The bank's customer base of 25 million is among the largest in the industry and it has 3115 branches spread across the vast geography of India. Progressive management and far-sighted leadership have ensured that the bank has maintained its status as an asset for the country.
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: APAC
, Consumer
, EMEA
, Financial Services
, Geography
, Industry
, International
, Microsoft to RHEL
, Novell Suse to RHEL
, Oracle
, Red Hat + JBoss Solutions
, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
, RHEL Migration Path
, Solaris to RHEL
, UNIX to RHEL
