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Business Challenge: An aging, inflexible legacy system could no longer support Seedco's highly successful EarnBenefits program that helps low-income workers access a range of public and private benefits and work supports.
Solution: A web-based application built using JBoss Enterprise Middleware running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System, Hibernate Framework, JBoss Seam Framework and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Industry-standard Intel-based x86 servers
Benefits: The new application allowed Seedco to streamline the process of determining eligibility and accelerate access to benefits by qualified individuals. The solution also contributed to the organization's bottom line, as other non-profit organizations are licensing the software solution to use in their own benefits programs.
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extremely sophisticated technology that can be used to address almost every kind of enterprise problem. I really don't see any other offering that competes with it.”
-- Jake Kirby, Vice President of Information Technology, Seedco
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
New version of systems management solution enables organizations to more easily manage the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform; Offers improvements in subscription management, compliance and content management
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 delivers compliance improvements, greater flexibility in content management and improved subscription management. It also provides support for managing the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform.
Red Hat Network Satellite is a systems management platform that enables IT organizations to efficiently manage the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is an industry-leading solution that optimizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems so that they are properly secured, operating efficiently and compliant with various standards. Compared to other commercial solutions, it is less complex and costly to implement, and compared to home-grown solutions, it more closely follows best practices and scales to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux more efficiently.
"We've been using Red Hat Network Satellite for several years now as a key component in the efficient management of our IT Operations,” said Kevin Masaryk, senior Linux/UNIX administrator at Salt River Project. “We continue to be impressed with the power and versatility of the product and are excited to see the release of version 5.4.”
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 adds support for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, enabling organizations to take advantage of the improved reliability, performance, scalability and infrastructure flexibility delivered in the latest release of the leading operating platform. The release also delivers improvements spanning subscription management, compliance and content management. New improvements in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 include:
* The addition of SELinux support to RHN Satellite configuration management, easing deployment of RHN Satellite-managed configuration files on an SELinux-deployed client system.
* New reporting capabilities to assist with audits and compliance-related activities.
* Staged deployment scheduling, allowing for thousands of systems to be updated even during short maintenance windows.
* Support for adding and managing third-party content repositories, enabling a more automated environment with less manual interaction and chance for error.
* New FlexGuest entitlement support for virtual systems.
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 is available to subscribing customers worldwide today.
Challenge: To cost-effectively drive datacenter growth to scale with business needs
Solution: A financial transaction cloud built on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Training
Hardware: Dell R7 10s with 64gigs of RAM, 2-3 processors
Benefits: Achieved scalability and flexibility for its datacenter; built a successful cloud to enable customers and partners to pay only for consumed services; expanded performance capabilities of its datacenter; enabled PCI compliance for its systems; experienced up to 60 percent cost savings
“Since our servers were already running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was a natural addition. To have both our operating system and virtualization technology from Red Hat, the synergies made a lot of sense.”
-- Kris Glover, vice president of Software Development at Ganart Technologies
Check out the IBM video from the 2010 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.
Get the firsthand account about how IBM utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service from Maria Azua, Vice President of Cloud Computing Enablement at IBM.
Business Challenge: Required a management and monitoring solution to ensure www.travelchannel.com visitors have positive experiences with no downtime or viewing difficulties,
especially during business-critical events
Solution: With Red Hat Consulting and Amentra, a Red Hat company, Travel Channel implemented JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON) on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, to increase visibility and availability, and improve the risk management of its Web applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, Amentra Consulting
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers
Benefits: Increased visibility to mitigate performance issues; Enhanced risk management and capacity planning; Increased throughput to servers 20-fold by increasing memory usage; Gained the ability to test the website's refresh load, memory leaks, and performance issues during business-critical live events; Increased application availability; Gained knowledge through Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat's Amentra Consulting team
“The partnership we have with Red Hat is not based on dollars, it is based on the technology and the people who are committed to our success. Red Hat takes the burden of hardening, testing, and supporting the technology, allowing us more time to satisfy the problem rather than playing with the symptoms.”
- Richard Hood, senior manager IT operations, Travel Channel
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem
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Company: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Columbus, OH
Business Challenge: Nationwide needed a cost-effective and highly-available architecture that would scale to enable the company's rapid growth. The platform also needed to maintain Nationwide’s high customer satisfaction standards while improving availability, reducing infrastructure costs, and decreasing management complexity for business-critical applications used by Nationwide agents.
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DBMS
Benefits: Nationwide was able to reduce the total time it takes to restart server clusters by 35 percent, and achieve faster time to deployment and problem resolution by identifying and fixing two long-term bugs in its architecture that had affected scale and memory utilization, saving hundreds of hours of IT time.
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth
Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support Download case study PDF
2010 Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Outstanding Open Source Architecture
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Customer: Union Pacific Corporation
Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
Industry: Freight Transportation Services
Business Challenge: With rising costs, and an aging mainframe IT infrastructure, Union Pacific’s ability to scale for growth was limited. Union Pacific needed a stable and capable platform to migrate its mainframe environment.
Solution: To develop a more flexible operating platform to build its distributed IT environment, Union Pacific is migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based virtualized infrastructure to replace the mainframe. Union Pacific also needed to develop a thinner web application tier, and the company turned to Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware to develop a highly customized, web application platform to run in the virtualized Java Hosting environment.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Server, JBoss Operations Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning, Oracle RAC, PeopleSoft Financials
Benefits: Union Pacific has increased its ability to scale for business growth with more capable system management and development tools for its virtualized environment, and has increased its system performance at a significantly lower cost structure
2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives
Company: Citigroup
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: Reconciling two independently developed and supported Linux platforms to run mission-critical applications for Citi's globally distributed business units
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux was chosen to be the standard Linux distribution across both x86 servers and the IBM System z mainframe platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers, IBM System z mainframes
Benefits: By delivering a common global Linux build across the enterprise that can be leveraged across both x86 and IBM mainframe platforms, Citi has been able to retire a number of one-off infrastructure software products and their associated costs.
Benefits: Cut development costs in half, reduced development time, increased employee productivity, and achieved greater stability
“I put my job on the line that JBoss would work, and I’ve actually benefited from that, given how many advantages we’ve gained from it. We’ve now done more than a dozen code releases based on JBoss and I’m very satisfied with my decision.”
–Gary Smith, manager of application development, Michigan Millers Mutual Insurance Company
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
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.
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
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
Industry: Healthcare: Prescription Drug Administrator
At a Glance: Datacenter transformation using HP Integrity server blades and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for databases; evaluation, prescription administration and analysis system
Objective: Establish a flexible, adaptable infrastructure that can continue operating while handling the exponential growth in the volume of information administered and accommodating the most dynamic business conditions. Maintain system availability in real time during all types of working situations. Increase redundancy and business continuity.
Solution: The core architecture of the Farmalink system is made up of mission-critical HP Integrity server blades with Intel processors running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform connected to an HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4000).
Hardware: 4 HP Integrity BL860c server blades, HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array, 3 HP ProLiant server blades
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle 10g Database
“HP Integrity BL860c server blades with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle allow us to offer highly reliable services in real time.”
− Pablo Giraud, Systems Manager, Farmalink
One of the largest municipal electric distribution utility in Canada deploys JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to eliminate proprietary lock-In and cut costs
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Customer: Toronto Hydro Corporation
JBoss Advanced Business Partner: Int3s Corp.
Industry: Utilities: Electric Power
Geography: Toronto, Canada
Business Challenge: To build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foundation for future-looking strategic initiatives designed to support enablement of smart metering and smart grid integration, reduce operational costs, promote energy conservation, and improve IT productivity
Solution: Deployed JBoss Enterprise SOA and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for innovative Smart Meter program and has successfully completed the initial phases of its program to create a customer-focused cost and energy-saving initiative
Software: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (including JBoss ESB), Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Leveraging Int3s expertise in SOA and Red Hat / JBoss open source Enterprise Framework, Toronto Hydro was able to successfully complete the initial phases of its groundbreaking Smart Meter program and plan other customer-focused cost- and energy-saving initiatives going forward.
“Toronto Hydro’s technology strategy required experienced resources to supplement internal staff in delivering complex custom development projects. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a comprehensive toolset that comes with everything we need to build a solid SOA for facilitating easy integration of disparate systems and data. It was the perfect solution to meet our current needs – and we trust Red Hat to meet our future ones.”
– Nicholas Yee, Chief Technology Officer, Int3s
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.
Download the case study from the IBM website [PDF]
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
Business Challenge: To migrate from a cost-inhibitive proprietary UNIX platform to a Linux alternative in order to reduce costs and increase performance, reliability, scalability, and agility of the systems on which its critical trading platforms handle billions of derivatives trades per year, worth more than a quadrillion in notional value
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Training
Hardware: 4,000 x86 quad-core servers
Migration Path: Sun Solaris on SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86-based servers
Benefits: Achieved reduced latency, expanded flexibility, heightened performance, ease of migration and management, and increased scalability while providing cost savings for the systems responsible for processing CME Group's millions of daily transactions
"Our technology partnership with Red Hat is key to us staying competitive in the market. We look to Red Hat for technology leadership through updates and support that help us to improve our tuning so that we can give our customers the best possible experience."
--Joe Panfil, managing director of Enterprise Technology Services at CME Group.
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
Business Challenge: Reengineering the datacenter infrastructure with a cost-effective and scalable platform that provided mission-critical reliability and superior performance to accommodate fast-paced business expansion
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DB
Hardware: 600 Intel Xeon Processor-based x86-based physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers
Migration Path: From UNIX systems, including Sun Solaris, running on proprietary RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers
Benefits: Reduced IT operating costs down to two cents per transaction which has the potential to save millions over the life of the systems, provided the ability to scale for business growth, and reegineered datacenter without unscheduled business interruptions
“In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has rock-solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels.” – Thomas McGinnis, platform engineer, PNC (formerly National City Corporation)
Industry: Transportation: Managed logistics services for the chemicals and process industries
Geography: Headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut with international offices in North America and Europe
Business Challenge: Needed to cost-effectively scale its infrastructure to meet exponential growth in the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle Database, Oracle ProC
Hardware: 33 multi-core Intel® Xeon® based IBM xSeries servers
Migration Path: HP-UX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multicore Intel Xeon processor based servers
Benefits: Ability to add transaction processing and storage capacity quickly and cost-effectively as business continues to expand. Ensures uptime and reliability to customers relying on Odyssey Logistics & Technology to run mission-critical supply chain operations
“Migrating to Linux was synonymous with migrating to Red Hat. Because of its rigorous quality control, Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based servers is truly a rock-solid platform. Its reliability continues to impress us daily,” said Massey. “And we increasingly think of Red Hat as a partner, not a vendor. We absolutely trust Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel with our most mission-critical systems.”
-- Brad Massey, director, IT Support Services, Odyssey Logistics & Technology
SOA allows the Defense Information Systems Agency to better support the joint warfighter in times of war and peace.
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Industry: Government
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Fusion of information, logistics, engineering, planning and transportation technologies to enable military mobility and versatility
Software: MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform
Benefits: Ability to use legacy systems in DISA's Net-Centric environment, increased security of information shared across agencies and task forces, enabled America's troops to be more mobile and versatile, in any location, at any time
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
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
Migration Path: Sun Solaris 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; Sun SPARC servers to virtualized Linux instances on HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network, Apache webserver, MySQL databases, IBM DB2
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 servers
Benefits: Increased performance, usability and convenience; enhanced support, and reduced cost with a Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration on HP ProLiant servers
“The speed is going to increase: we'll see people working faster, and we'll be able to process more claims, all by switching an operating system. I can't believe it was that cut and dry.”
-- Adam Atkinson, UNIX administrator at Healthplan Services
Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers
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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.
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.
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24x7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24x7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
Solution: Information Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Server Consolidation, Virtualization
Business Partner: IBM
Business Need: Sentry’s core infrastructure required substantial computing power and high-speed storage. Four difficult-to-administer racks of large servers supported the company’s day-to-day business processes, costing much energy, effort and money to run. Sentry wanted to accommodate its growing business while simplifying the design and administration of its underlying IT infrastructure.
Solution: Sentry began by consolidating on an IBM BladeCenter® H chassis that supports 14 IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new solution greatly simplifies system administration by enabling the company to access and manage all hardware remotely from a single console. All cabling is integrated within the BladeCenter technology, reducing the amount of wires previously needed for power and remote access.
Benefits:
Reduces operating costs and offers remote administration
Increases storage capacity and performance
Reduces server footprint and amount of cabling
“Besides consolidating our servers, we reduced our cabling significantly. Out of the box, the IBM BladeCenter required just a few uplinks—power, Ethernet and fiber channel—and immediately all 14 servers were connected.”
-- Sentry Data Systems
Business Need: The City of Burbank needed to bring its multi-vendor infrastructure onto a scalable platform that supports multiple operating systems.
Solution: The City consolidated on IBM BladeCenter® and IBM System Storage™ DS4300 while migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
Benefits: As a result of the implementation, the City achieved better performance, significant space savings, and reduced costs for hardware, power, cooling, maintenance, monitoring and licensing.
"We’re running the complete Oracle ERP solution--the application and the database--all on one BladeCenter with four-processor blades." That solution includes Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database 10g, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "It’s easier to maintain, from an administrative perspective, and it’s less costly because we are licensing for only one production server."
-- Mahesh Saraswat, Lead Database Administrator, City of Burbank
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Company: Sensei, Inc.
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks including; JBoss Enterprise Application Platforms, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss ESB, jBPM, Hibernate, Cache and RichFaces; all components of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pentaho Business Intelligence, MySQL, and Alfresco.
Migration Path: Open source middleware projects from JBoss.org to JBoss Enterprise Middleware Solutions and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits: Lowered infrastructure and development costs; more flexibility when deploying applications; greater scalability; enhanced standards and support.
"With a proprietary solution, trying to grow our product line would be painful, both in terms of man-hours and integrating additional software. But with the cost-effectiveness of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we are able to reallocate resources to scale our I.T. infrastructure.”
-Tim Dion, Chief Information Officer, Sensei Inc.
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.
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
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.
Business Challenge: Create new revenue streams by responding to customer demands for treasury and financial management software available as a service 24/7. Cut costs and improve reliability and scalability of internal systems. Ensure market competitiveness by reducing the infrastructure investment required by customers.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Oracle DB
Hardware: Intel® Xeon® based x86 servers
Migration-Path: Solaris on SPARC Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon based servers
Benefits: Created new revenue opportunities and maintained its industry leadership position; Cut costs and boosted operational efficiencies and system reliability
“Our clients see that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is reliable. They are completely comfortable knowing that they can run their largest, most critical systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and that they’ll get enterprise-class support.”
– Mark Tirschwell, chief technology officer, Wall Street Systems
Company: North American Non-profit Medical Research Organization; Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
Industry: Healthcare: Biomedical Research and science education
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Aggregate critical information, reduce operational costs, and increase performance to internal and external users, and increase availability of research to a wider audience, through the use of a foundational portal platform.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (32-cpu), JBoss Rules (32-cpu), JBoss jBPM (32-cpu), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Alfresco ECM, Alfresco WCM
Benefits: The Red Hat and Vizuri partnership helped a non-profit medical research organization complete a side-by-side evaluation and selection process that compared the solution benefits of open source software to proprietary software. Through customer experiences, JBoss and Vizuri were able to outline to the customer that the cost savings provided by the selecting an open source solution would allow the customer to leverage Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
Business Challenge: Improving the efficiency of its demand-response network that helps manage energy supply and demand
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Benefits: Streamlined the complex workflows involved in aligning the needs of utilities/grid operators to avoid blackouts during peak energy-consumption times and the desire of energy users to generate revenues through better managing their energy use.
“It would be very difficult for us to compete successfully without jBPM. We could not deliver our solutions nearly as efficiently and cost-effectively in this extremely aggressive market without it.”
–Ed Kusnitz, lead platform engineer, EnerNOC
Business Challenge: Transition from inflexible and costly proprietary middleware software and hardware to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to cut costs while speeding new broadband/VoIP products to market
Benefits: Reduce costs by more than $500,000 annually in hardware and software support; enabled cost-effective modernization of service-oriented architecture (SOA); improved performance of existing systems; reduced time-to-market of new products.
“In the current challenging economic situation, it is all the more important for Covad to retain its edge in automated Operations Support Systems while reducing the software support costs. We needed to modernize our SOA and roll out new products, all the while doing a new software rollout every six weeks and maintaining 99.9% uptime. That’s why we love JBOSS – it allows us to do more with less.”
- Unmesh Kulkarni, Director of Software Architecture and Delivery, Covad Communications Group, Inc.
Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.
“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.
“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing
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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
Business Challenge:
To increase the speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the business’ high-performance grid computing environment, which now records more than one trillion transactions per month
Migration Path: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network
Hardware: x86 Servers
Benefits: Standardizing its grid computing environment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux helped Acxiom achieve 100-fold performance gains and unmatched scalability while also reducing costs and increasing flexibility
Business Challenge: Facilitate use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to deliver mission-critical electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware designs to market
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat solutions. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical staff. Increased return on investment (ROI) of deploying Red Hat solutions. Improved time-to-market.
“For any company that needs an additional level of support above the standard offering, Red Hat’s TAM service is the answer. In addition to providing us with a great opportunity to build a deeper relationship with Red Hat, it enables us to leverage Red Hat products for greater competitive advantage."
–Laurent Rochette, alliance manager, independent software vendors (ISVs), Mentor Graphics
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
“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.
Challenge: Searched for a replacement for proprietary software for its IBM mainframe servers that could provide greater flexibility, manageability, and utilization opportunities
Migration Path: HPUX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: IBM System z mainframe servers
Benefits: Experienced cost savings, boosted performance, stable and reliable management, consolidation, and valuable technical support after migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z
“Since we were already leaning toward Red Hat in our distributed environment, choosing Red Hat on the mainframe coincided perfectly with our desire to have one corporate standard for Linux.”
-- Kevin Masaryk, senior Linux/Unix administrator at SRP
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.”
– Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Opportunity: Create a more stable and cost-effective portfolio of software products for security firms and expand its client base by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SteelEye high-availability solutions.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux.
Benefits: Reduced costs and shorter IT support time to keep servers patched and available. Higher revenues due to client demand for a higher performing and more stable portfolio of applications.
“Not only is Red Hat Enterprise Linux affordable, but it is utterly reliable and stable compared to other versions of Linux.”
-- Steve Senk, hardware support manager, DICE Corporation."
Geography: Global, headquartered in San Jose, California
Opportunity: To reduce IT costs and increase user productivity by improving the performance and eliminating downtime of Lotus Notes and Domino applications being used throughout the worldwide enterprise.
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite Server, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino.
Hardware: 64 servers, divided between Dell 2950s, HP DL380s, and IBM X3650s and desktops.
Benefits: Dramatically improved application performance for users, improving their productivity while freeing up IT resources to focus on more strategic issues for the business.
“Because of the difference in performance and reliability running Lotus Notes and Domino on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are going back to our customers who run Notes and Domino applications and convincing them to switch as well. The IBM-Red Hat partnership is a win-win situation for all concerned.”
-- S.Pranatharthi Haran Practice Head - IBM Services, CSS Corp.
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
Company: The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Geography: Reston, Virginia
Opportunity: Create an electronic information exchange for all stakeholders involved in getting new drugs to market – from research and development, to clinical trials, to government approval
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss jBPM Framework, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and TriCipher
Benefits: Will enable previously unmatched levels of collaboration among pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and health care providers to make the drug development, testing, and approval process more secure and efficient while reducing costs and safeguarding the safety of the end consumer
Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 18,000 employees serving government clients from more than 80 offices and has been recognized by major publications as a best place to work. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.
Likewise Software is a privately-held company that provides audit and authentication solutions designed to improve security, reduce operational costs, and help demonstrate regulatory compliance for enterprises with mixed network environments. Its product, Likewise Open, which has been certified by the company to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is an open-source enterprise-class solution that addresses the authentication needs of organizations with heterogeneous network infrastructures, by easily and quickly joining virtually all enterprise platforms to common directories such as Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open is a great starting point for companies that are grappling with homegrown solutions to solve their authentication challenges. Likewise's premier offering, Likewise Enterprise, which has been certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, provides enterprises with significant added value by addressing the authentication, audit, and reporting needs of companies running multiple operating systems in their networks. By providing an easy upgrade path for customers that have installed Likewise Open, Likewise Enterprise allows enterprises to use group policies to manage their mixed environments as well as their audit capabilities. Located in Bellevue, Washington, Likewise currently has 50 employees.
By linking hundreds of millions of users the world over, Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering the communications capabilities that make its promise of "business made simple" a reality. Based in Toronto, Nortel provides enterprises and service providers in more than 150 countries with the next-generation technologies they need to support their multimedia and business-critical network applications. Nortel technologies help eliminate barriers to efficiency, speed, and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to their information-whenever and wherever they need it.
Company: Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: New York
Opportunity: Build an utterly reliable, high-performance portal using open source to speed application development while reducing costs
Migration Path: Proprietary application server and portal solutions to JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Rules Framework. Databases: Sybase SQL (transactional), Sybase IQ (data warehousing for production environment), Microsoft SQL (training data), Alfresco Software for enterprise content management (ECM).
Operating System: Windows 2000
Hardware: Intel dual-core Intel Xeon HP servers
Benefits: Established a reliable platform with no unplanned downtime, sped time-to-market by cutting application development time in half, dramatically improved application performance, and saved $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs
Daiwa Trusts JBoss:“If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic. JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal platforms have been extremely reliable and stable. JBoss is a worry-free solution that helps us sleep better at night.” —Steve Dunstan, Enterprise Systems Architect and Vice President, Information Technology, Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Business Challenge: Replace an existing proprietary health information system (HIS) with an open-source-based suite of integrated applications to improve quality of patient care while cutting costs.
Migration Path: Moved from proprietary HIS legacy system to an open-source solution based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP hardware.
Software: Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution.
Hardware: Two HP Proliant DL580 G2 servers and one HP ProLiant DL380 server; HP Compaq desktops for client machines.
Implemented an open-source EHR that put patient information at the fingertips of healthcare providers for less than half the price of an equivalent proprietary system.
“Red Hat continues to make an incredibly valuable contribution to the technology industry by putting its tremendous resources behind Linux and commercializing it for enterprise use. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast for years, and I absolutely trust my organization’s well-being to Red Hat.” --David Whiles, Director of Information Systems for Midland Memorial Hospital
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
World's leading exchange group experiences flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Raleigh, NC – May 14, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has announced that NYSE Euronext utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to maintain the reliability, high performance and security of its mission-critical financial trading platform. With Red Hat solutions, NYSE Euronext has realized greater flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, cost savings and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing rapid performance results.
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.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center hosts its mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Raleigh NC – February 11, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital in Boston, Mass., has migrated to Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network. Red Hat solutions have provided BIDMC with significant cost savings, higher system availability and streamlined disaster recovery, creating an opportunity to enhance patient care.
SESCO Enterprises builds new internal infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — October 15, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that SESCO Enterprises, a leading electricity and natural gas trading company, has deployed Red Hat solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to facilitate the creation of a high-performance infrastructure to support its rapid database growth. The company has since experienced cost-savings, flexiblity and heightened performance and reliability.
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.
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.
Company benefits from central, secure management through Red Hat Network and plans to expand open source deployment with JBoss.
RALEIGH, NC - January 29, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Union Bank of California, one of the 25 largest banks in the United States, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat's complete solution stack part of its core technology direction.
Business Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry
Migration Path: HP-UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results
“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.
“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
“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
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
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
Migration Path: Pearl-based environment to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Faster development, greater scalability and “Ignited Performance”
“We have a very smart, fast-moving team and had set very aggressive deadlines for
taking our designs and re-factoring them in JBoss. “Instructor-led or classroom training wasn’t going to work. We needed someone who had detailed
knowledge of the entire platform, as well as of the specific applications and who could
go shoulder-to-shoulder as we tore into the code.”
- Frank Gartland, Vice President, Solution Strategy and Development, Incentive Logic.
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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.
Submitted by: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect
Industry: Financial services
Geography: New York, NY
Overview
Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings.
Category: Migration Winner: Sakonnet Submitted by: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet Industry: Oil and Gas Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro
Overview
Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet’s energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support.
Business Challenge: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital; determine a solution to aid in delivering high-performance, secure, cost-effective systems to ensure optimized patient care; identify a solution to enable internal hosting and support for the growing number of external websites
Migration Path: IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network Satellite; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection
Hardware: HP and IBM servers
Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care; achieved 35 percent growth in its datacenter without needing to expand its hardware footprint or internal resources through its use of virtualization; gained expertise through the knowledge transfer resulting from virtualization and clustering-focused engagements with Red Hat Consulting
“Our first priority is security and our second is performance. When you can get security and performance needs met, and it costs less than the alternative, you go for it. That's the quadrant that Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays in.” -- Barbara Schleider, director of Technology Services, Management Information Systems (MIS) at Florida Hospital
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.
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.
Category: Clustering Winner: J. Craig Venter Institute Submitted by: Pete Davies, Indresh Singh, Tom Dolafi, Chris Lemieux, Sean Murphy, Adam Resnick, Angelo Trivelli, Bryan Yu, and Saul Kravitz Industry: Bio Engineering Geography: Rockville, MD
Overview
Selected for use of JBoss messaging and clustering to provide the stability and scalability necessary to process in excess of 40 million traces in batch across a 2 node cluster that supports over 100 DNA sequencers (scaling to 8 nodes to process large collections of traces) while also saving the not-for-profit genomic research center over $500,000 per year in licensing and maintenance costs.
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.
Start-up shortens time-to-market, gains industry recognition Industry: Sales 2.0
Geography: Pittsburgh, PA
Opportunity: Build a high-availability Saas solution that could support product evolution, a growing subscriber base, and integration with multiple technologies
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Application Server, Hibernate, Oracle 10g RAC cluster solution
Applications: Landslide (a Sales Workstyle Management Solution)
Benefits: Expedited time-to-market, optimized resources to improved product development, and delivered a highly secure, reliable solution that's recognized by the industry
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.
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
Category: Innovation in Government Submitted by: Douglas Babb Vertical: Government Geography: Hill Air Force Base, UT Website: http://www.hill.af.mil
Overview
Selected for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption.
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.
Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO Industry: Healthcare Geography: Louisville, CO Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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.
Selected for their use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JEMS to build a consumer-directed healthcare solution that was first-to-market, yielding immediate customer traction, increased market visibility, thus reflective of corporate leadership and success.
Opportunity: Migrate core clinical applications to stable, secure operating environment and create new disaster-recovery system with higher availability
Migration Path: HP Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Intersystems Caché; proprietary Triple A, utility, and security applications
Hardware: HP DL385 with AMD dual-core processors
Benefits: Realized $200,000 in annual cost savings, decreased annual downtime from 20 hours to near zero—furthering leading-edge patient care
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system
Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business
Facilitated the creation of a high-performance infrastructure that supports rapid database growth; flexible application development and high levels of Red Hat support translate into huge cost-savings and a competitive advantage
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.
Benefits: Deployment complete three months ahead of schedule. Significantly reduced project cost due to fewer required resources. Strong delivery rates. Increased control.
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Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, selling more than 98 million tickets and serving more than 9,000 venue, promoter, sports team, and event clients worldwide in 2004. Ticketmaster scheduled eight months to add high-performance email to its existing CRM solution. It was operational in one month with StrongMail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux providing them unprecedented speed, delivery and control.
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.
Red Hat Provides Cost-Effective Solution for Record Management
Customer: Highmark Healthcare
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US: Pennsylvania
Business Challenge: To maintain secure health records for over 4.1 million insured customers through a manageable and cost-effective system.
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: JuTzu, Race servers, HPDL rat mouse server
Benefits: Approximately 30% savings in hardware/software licensing costs. An almost 50% reduction in hardware (78 CPUs to 42). More than $470,000 long-term savings through the directory server ($500,000 + future costs estimate from Sun versus one-time $30,000 cost from Red Hat). Higher performance and security. Readily available support.
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
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
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.
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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