Red Hat Customer Stories

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Customer: King's College London

Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Red Hat Advanced Business Partner: Tier 2 Consulting

Business Challenge: To provide online learning materials and assessment tools virtually to dental students through a flexible, secure and cost-effective technology infrastructure with optimal functionality

Migration Path: The application was developed from the ground up using JBoss

Solution: The IVIDENT project (International Virtual Dental School, now known as UDENTE - Universal Dental E-Learning http://www.udente.org) is a flexible learning platform (FLP), conceived to deliver quality assured content and web-based education tools to dental students. The platform is built on Red Hat's open source middleware portfolio including: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Developer Studio

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, and jBPM

Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1435 and 2x Dual Core AMD

Benefits: To create an award-winning virtual experience for students, to improve the educational experience for both students and tutors, potentially improve ROI while reducing costs, to increase flexibility, interoperability and ease of maintenance.

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Customer: People’s Group

Industry: Conglomerate (Education and Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, and Real Estate).

Geography: Pan India

Red Hat Partner: Keen & Able Computers Private Limited

Business Challenge: To design a centralized, secure, controllable, stable, and high-performing mailing solution and other infrastructure solutions that are cost effective to co-exist with the existing infrastructure so as to build an effective communication tool within the departments and among the students, agencies and the external world

Solution: People’s Group chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with other open source systems, to implement its mailing, firewall, proxy, DNS, and other solutions such as Mass SMS solutions, bandwidth sharing/load balancing, backup and failover solutions, and antivirus and filter applications.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other supported open source components, including Postfix MTA, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database Server, Squid Proxy Server, Bind DNS Server, iptables.

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from HP, HCL, Wipro.

Benefits: Reduced IT costs, simplified management, easy systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, better productivity, reduced redundancy, higher efficiency and security, and enabled no dependency on other third party vendorsroup

“Red Hat solutions have helped us to build an ideal infrastructure platform for tomorrow, taking our business to the next level. Today we have complete peace of mind as its has brought stability, higher performance, economics gains apart from cost savings and an ability to scale to keep pace with our rapid growth. Our dependency on these solutions has grown so much that we can’t even think of working without them.”
- Atul Kashyap, Senior General Manager, Information Technology & Communication, People’s Group

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Company: Victoria University of Wellington

Industry: Higher Education

Geography New Zealand

Business Challenge: Replacing an end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that would facilitate lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance

Migration Path: From Sun Solaris SPARC to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon Processor-based Dell servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Banner (student administration application by Sungard Higher Education)

Hardware: 4 x Dell 2850 servers with Intel Xeon processors

Benefits: Reduced annual maintenance fees, realized cost savings of 75 percent related to hardware, increased application performance, improved security, stability, and reliability

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IBM CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY



Customer: Tallahassee Community College

Industry: Education

Geography: United States

IBM Business Partner: Mainline Information Systems, Red Hat

Business Challenge:
Needing to grow its organization to keep pace with its student body, TCC sought to update its aging IT infrastructure. Its existing environment included an IBM zSeries® 890 mainframe, a storage area network (SAN) with 1TB of capacity and a Novell net­work. The college wanted to boost its technology with reliable, flexible and scalable hardware that featured additional storage capacity to support new initiatives.

Solution: With help from IBM and IBM Business Partner Mainline Information Systems, TCC migrated its applications from its mainframe to an IBM System x™ platform featuring one IBM System x3950 server that hosts the production environment and runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system and one System x3950 server that hosts a test environment.

Benefits: Achieves roughly US$250,000 per year in savings by growing its SAN, enabling the college to reallocate the funds to its operating budget. Enables the client to tackle new initiatives with greater flexibility and storage capacity. Supports all of the college’s different enterprise applications and enables it to provide students and faculty with larger storage accounts for e-mail and personalized Web portals

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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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Companies: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Zimbra

Industry: Higher education; technology (software)

Geography: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sunnyvale, California

Business Challenge: The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee needed to replace an aging email system with a new platform that would provide innovative collaboration solutions to their 50,000 accounts

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Benefits: Reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as primary campus operating system; By migrating the existing email system to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, UWM improved communication and collaboration among students, faculty and staff and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased focus on student retention by providing tools to manage their academic and personal schedules and stay connected with faculty.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the most requested OS today, primarily due to its stability and performance. It was the obvious choice as the primary deployment platform for Zimbra."
—Ramesh May, Senior Manager, Marketing and Products, Zimbra

"When evaluating integrated email and calendar solutions, we focused on the total cost of ownership—that is, the lifetime cost, not just the purchase cost—of the applications. Zimbra running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux emerged as the clear consensus choice." —Bruce Maas, chief information officer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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Red Hat provides the University of Southern Mississippi with time-saving solution



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Customer: University of Southern Mississippi

Industry: Education

Geography: North America

Business Challenge: Reconfiguring servers that were not based on the same hardware platform lead to an increase in errors and demanded much of the IT team's time and financial resources

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite

Benefits: Streamlined the university's IT environment and standardized the systems management process, reduced overhead, minimized errors, and saved time and financial resources

“We transitioned to Red Hat solutions very easily. It was just flipping a switch. It was easy."
-- James Daniel, system administrator at the University of Southern Mississippi

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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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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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Organization increases ability to handle mission-critical educational demands utilizing JBoss Enterprise Middleware

RALEIGH, NC - April 28, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Brazilian National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (Inep), has migrated its applications to a full suite of JBoss Enterprise Middleware technology, including the JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms. Since beginning its migration to JBoss solutions, Inep has increased scalability, performance and stability for its mission-critical applications.

Inep, a Federal Institution linked to the Education Ministry of Brazil (MEC), manages the data and results from educational studies, research and evaluations related to the Brazilian Educational System. It is also responsible for the National High School Brazilian Exam (ENEM), which had over one million online registrations in 2008. After regularly encountering IT issues that required reconfiguring Inep's system, the organization decided that the performance and scalability of its complex IT architecture must be increased to better execute daily tasks.

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Customer: University of Sydney

Industry: Education

Business Challenges: Quickly and cost-effectively develop a high-availability platform to support a web-based file repository, enabling the University to comply with new Government regulations

Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, DSpace (web-based file repository)

Hardware: 2 x HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers, 2 x Dual Core CPUs, HP EVA SANs

Benefits: Achieved quick deployment, cost savings, high availability, reliability, and scalability

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Australian University Carves out Costs and Improves Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite and has since realized significant cost savings, increased performance, ease of management and reliable, ongoing support.

CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance education. The University relies heavily on the reliability and stability of its IT environment on a daily basis. Its technology powers critical finance, human resources and student-administration systems. With campuses and students located across various time zones, CQUniversity requires an infrastructure that supports standard operation at all hours of the day.

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Company: CQUniversity Australia (Central Queensland University

Industry: Higher Education

Geography: Australia

Opportunity: To migrate from an HP Tru64 Unix environment to a cost-effective and performance-boosting platform within Central Queensland University’s budget

Migration Path: HP Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite Server on HP 7000c Blade and BL460c Blade Servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle 10g RAC, PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications (Finance & Student Administration), Talent2 Works (HR)

Hardware: HP 7000c Blade System and BL460c Blade Servers

Benefits: Experienced increased cost savings, performance, ease of management, and reliable ongoing support

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“Red Hat has always been known as a leader in reliability and performance, and we’re pleased to see that recognition reflected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 adoption in cutting-edge environments like Blackboard,” said Brian Stevens, CTO, Red Hat.

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Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Opportunity: learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrollments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, JBoss Application Server 4.0.3, Hibernate 3.0.5, JBoss Clustering and current investigating JBossCache 1.4.1

Hardware: 4 x IBM Blade Servers

Services: Gold-Level JBoss Subscription, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Support, JBoss Training

Benefits: Immediate savings from choosing open source software with zero licencing costs. In addition, learndirect could easily scaled out its architecture as needed with no more incremental licensing costs An increase in system performance and stability with an application server which outperformed its proprietary competitors in extensive testing. The new JBoss-based learndirect system is currently running at 99.989% uptime Rapid development and time to market, thanks to the transparency of the software's source code

In terms of performance levels, JBoss Application Server actually came out as the fastest and this was a key factor in our decision as service levels to users are of upmost importance. As the evaluation continued we soon realised that JBoss competed extremely well with the proprietary alternatives and when we considered that scaling JBoss out as far as we liked would not create any extra licence costs on our bottom line, the decision was a very easy one to make – we chose open source from JBoss,” concluded Mather.

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Industry:Local government

Geography: Florida

Business Challenge: Running on a costly AIX server that required an expensive maintenance contract and was close to end-of-life, frustrating OCPS’s IT department and draining taxpayer money

Migration Path: SAP on AIX to SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Domain Name Server on Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: SAP running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: HP Superdome and HP BL460s and BL860s

Benefits: Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run business-critical SAP solutions gave OCPS a cost-effective, stable operating system that requires less maintenance and increases security

“Deploying Red Hat alleviated our concern about viruses and the number of penetration points, allowing us to focus on more productive IT initiatives. Running SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has given us the more secure and scalable operating system that we needed to stay within budget without sacrificing performance”

-Thomas McNabb, assistant director, device management, Orange County Public Schools

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French Ministry selects open source solutions to avoid vendor lock-in, equipping all of its local education authorities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers

Raleigh, NC — September 4, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This decision was made in line with the Ministry's strategy to invest in open source solutions in order to free itself from the constraints associated with proprietary software and vendor lock-in.

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Industry: Higher Education

Challenge: Quick deployment of servers in an ever-growing network

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: IBM xSeries servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database central administrative computing conversion in the university's history. Closely tied to the Oracle installation, Program Link is the cornerstone of the University's initiative for a totally integrated digital campus, so it was imperative that Wake Forest find an operating system that integrated cleanly with Oracle's total product line.

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Industry: Higher Education

Geography: New Hampshire

Opportunity: Experiencing major issues and frustration with password replication that caused headaches for end users and IT staff

Migration Path: Sun ONE Directory Server to Red Hat Directory Server

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Directory Server

Benefits: Eliminated replication issues and increased security in seamless transition

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“The multi-master replication was a huge issue for us previously. Red Hat Directory Server has solved that completely. Students, faculty and staff are our end users and this solution gives them the ability to make password changes effectively and securely so they can focus on their work.”

- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College

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“Red Hat training is a big reason why we’ve been able to keep things running smoothly.
The best compliment from our average end user is nothing at all and that is what we’ve heard since the RHEL deployment.”

Jon Cutler, Director of Systems Administration, Marshall University

Industry: Higher Education

Geography: West Virginia

Opportunity: Running on a slow and expensive older system caused frustration for many at Marshall

Migration Path: SunGard Banner on HP AlphaServer with Open VMS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: SunGard Banner on RHEL

Hardware: Dell

Benefits: Enjoying increased performance, improved speed, and enhanced hardware options in a simplified environment

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2008 JBOSS INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

Category: Ecosystem

Winner: Rivet Logic Corporation

Submitted by: Mike Vertal, CEO/President/Owner

Industry: Rivet = Technology Partner / Kaplan = Education

Geography: Reston, VA

Overview
Rivet Logic, a provider of professional services focused on open source solutions, and Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, a premier provider of educational and career services for individuals, schools and businesses, were selected for their use of Alfresco's content management platform in support of the upgrade of Kaplan's online presence from a legacy system to a JBoss-centric solution. The teams employed JBoss Seam (and Facelets), JBoss Application Server, Hibernate and jBPM to create a next-generation platform for the www.kaptest.com site that can deliver personalized applications and dynamic, targeted content. The results include a 26x performance improvement over the legacy content authoring/delivery system, much faster page load times and a "fresher" web presence for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.

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Category: Increased Return on Investment
Submitted by: Andrea Zissler: Director, Information Technology
Industry: Education and Information Technology
Geography: Ann Arbor, MI
Website: http://www.proquest.com

Overview

An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a Red Hat solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.

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Customer: Basel University

Industry: Education

Geography: Switzerland

Opportunity: Replace two obsolete OpenLDAP servers to guarantee a greater level of reliability

Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server

Hardware: Three servers with 3 GHz Intel Dual Core Xeon processors, each with 4 GB RAM and each with 2 x 76 GB SAS hard disk drives, distributed to two server rooms.

Benefits: Increased reliability, ensured stability at peak access times, enabled monitoring and failover functionality, enabled the modification of configuration during operation

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Industry: Education

Geography: Scotland, United Kingdom

Challenge: To significantly improve performance of legacy UNIX systems, while creating a compelling cost/benefit case for new systems.

Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP Enterprise R/3 with SAP HR/Payroll Public Sector version 4.70 on Oracle Database 9.2.0.5
Hardware: HP Proliant DL380, HP Integrity Servers (rx4640 and rx2600) based on Intel 1.3GHz Itanium 2 processors.

Benefits: Three-fold improvement in system performance. Lower project costs (as much as half the previous system costs). Multi-platform support. Impressive reliability and stability.

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