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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: Telecinco

Industry: Broadcast Media

Geography: Spain

Business Challenge: To update and consolidate the entire corporate IT infrastructure, including business-critical applications and management tools

Solution: Telecinco refreshed its hardware and software infrastructure based on a combination of solutions from Red Hat, HP, and NetApp, as well as other IT solutions certified by Red Hat and integrated by Telefónica

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Operations Network, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Informix Dynamic Server 11, and NetApp Snapmanager

Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers

Migration path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Benefits: Telecinco benefits from a high-performance, highly reliable, flexible platform based on industry standards and has reduced its operating costs by 33 percent

“Our decision to migrate to Red Hat solutions has been one of the best technology decisions in recent years. The project is aligned with a wider company strategy and has put us ahead of development in the market.”
-- María Caldés, Director of Engineering and Systems, Telecinco

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Customer: Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Limited (SUD Life)

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Partner: Arion

Business Challenge: To design a Group Policy Management System that would deliver high operational efficiency, reduce operational costs and high ROI with no compromise on performance, scalability, security, and flexibility

Solution: SUD Life designed its Group Policy Management System on open source Java J2EE software infrastructure with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware solution

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, SQL Server database

Hardware: Intel xeon processor-based servers from HCL and IBM

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs by 70 percent, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, improved business agility

“Through the use of open source J2EE technology and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have achieved nearly 70 percent savings in costs, as well as greater operational efficiencies compared to traditional approaches. The solution has also made our business agile, enabling us to react quickly to the changing business needs giving us a competitive edge.” -- Harnath Babu, head of Information Technology, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance

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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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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.

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Customer: iGATE Corporation

Industry: Information Technology

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To replace its outdated iQuest management tool and design a more reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective project management system, which could scale to meet the organization's needs and free it from proprietary vendor lock-in.

Migration Path: IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Solution: Designed ManageMe application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Oracle Database, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss jBPM

Hardware: Intel processor-based x86 servers from Dell

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, and obtained the ability to achieve 100 percent system availability

“The success of this initiative has helped us to innovate further and choose the most appropriate set of technologies for our business needs. Open source solutions in general, and Red Hat in particular, will now be adopted as the foundation of our long-term IT strategy. We are confident that Red Hat solutions will enable us to serve our customers effectively every day.” - Chella Namasivayam M., vice president and chief information officer,
iGATE

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Customer: NYSE Euronext

Industry: Financial trading

Geography: Global

Business challenge: Needed a single, common, and flexible platform that would simplify NYSE Euronext's application development, deployment, and management processes while still meeting mission-critical requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability

Migration path: Multiple application servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and a legacy portal server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: x86-based servers and blades

Benefits: Experienced 50-60 percent cost savings; simplified architecture, management, deployment, and usability by moving to JBoss Enterprise Middleware; increased performance, speed of deployment, flexibility, reliability, access to support, and control of the infrastructure; improved regulation and security; streamlined processes; reduced failovers and development lifecycles

Pull Quote: “We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions.”
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext

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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

Hardware:Four HP dual-core AMD Opteron processor-based 8216 servers, Azul Java Appliance


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.

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Customer: Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited

Industry: Travel

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Design an IT architecture that is scalable, high-performing, reliable, flexible, and cost-effective and can handle rapid business growth and ensure high availability for thousands of transactions per day, 365 days per year

Solution: Designed the entire IT infrastructure on open source solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL and Oracle DB, Tomcat and Ruby on Rails application servers, Apache web server

Hardware: HP Blade Intel x86 servers (~60 servers), HP / EMC storage, Dell and IBM Intel x86 rack servers

Benefits: Achieved system reliability, performance gains, system flexibility, and unmatched scalability—all at a fraction of the cost—while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

“Red Hat solutions enabled us to leverage IT in a strategic manner. They imparted higher business capabilities to handle the aggressive business growth in a smooth manner and allowed us to expand to newer markets. I am confident that Red Hat will help us to become a great brand to reckon with in the APAC region.”

Sanjeev Sreedharan, Vice President, Software Engineering, Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited

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Customer: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC)

Industry: Government - Travel & Tourism Department

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Needed to modernize ticketing and passenger services for the world's busiest railway network and required an operating system to run multiple applications across various business units with a common, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective IT architecture with no vendor lock-in

Solution: Implemented its mailing system and other enterprise-class applications, including Integrated Train Enquiry System, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; these solutions enabled IRCTC to build cost-effective IT solutions while also making them reliable, flexible, and scalable

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including Linux Virtual Server (LVS), clustering, and file system technologies, Oracle database server (600 GB size with 10 million users), IBM WebSphere Server

Hardware: HP Proliant DL 580 G4, HP Blade 465C Servers (Total RHEL Servers = Approx. 50)

“We look to Red Hat as our trusted technology advisor for any kind of enterprise application implementation and we place its solutions firmly within our radar for future deployments.”

-Sanjay Agrawal, general manager, IT Services, IRCTC

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2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Carved Out Costs

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Customer: Just Dial Private Limited

Industry: Technology: eCommerce – Local Search

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design reliable, stable, high-performance, and cost-effective IT systems that can scale with business growth

Solution: Migrated Microsoft DOS-based client server system to a web-based system based on an open architecture.

Migration Path: Microsoft DOS-based platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database (Approx. size is in the range of 50 to 100 GB)

Hardware: 215 Intel Xeon processor-based Dell 2950 PowerEdge servers

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, and increased scalability, performance, and reliability

“Our business has always been continuously expanding and without open source in general, and Red Hat in particular, we could not have scaled with that growth.”
-Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Chief Technology Officer, Just Dial

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Customer: SBI Life Insurance Company Limited

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective IT systems with substantial longevity

Solution: Migrated highly critical applications and databases to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase flexibility and performance while reducing costs

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including integrated virtualization, clustering and file system technologies, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from HP and IBM

Benefits: Increased flexibility decreased IT costs, increased scalability and performance

“Adoption of Red Hat and open standards has enabled us to mitigate the risk of proprietary lock-in and has led to cost reduction and improved interoperability.”
-Mr. Bhaskar Jutti, chief information officer, SBI Life Insurance.

"We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for mission critical Applications and have been satisfied users of the product. Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in implementing the applications in this environment has encouraged us to extend this environment for other applications”
-Mani RVS, Head – Information Systems Group, SBI Life Insurance

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Customer: Etisalat Lanka (Pvt.) Limited

Industry: Telecommunications

Geography: Sri Lanka

Business Challenge: To set up a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to support the organization's objective of rapidly increasing its telecommunications operations in Sri Lanka

Solution: Etisalat Sri Lanka selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to resolve its business challenges by providing on-demand business scalability with significant cost savings and enhanced operational efficiencies

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; guest operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Edition; Microsoft SQL Database Server 2005 and 2008

Hardware: IBM and HP Intel Xeon processor-based Blade Servers (2 Quad Core and 8 GB / 24 GB memory)

Benefits: Achieved significant cost and time savings; gained the ability for real-time provisioning of servers; improved operational efficiencies and development of a highly consistent and scalable virtualized IT infrastructure; reduced power, space, and management overhead costs; gained significant internal
customer satisfaction

“Etisalat Sri Lanka experienced an increase in stability, flexibility, and scalability by using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. We were able to reduce our footprint from 40 to six servers, and witnessed a drastic reduction in TCO, enabling our IT team to concentrate more on improving the current infrastructure.”

-Chandrakanth Jayasinghe, Head of IT Systems, Etisalat Sri Lanka

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Customer: Euronet Services India Pvt. Limited (Subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide Inc.)

Industry: eCommerce – online financial transaction

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To consolidate hardware resources to build a platform that is flexible, secure, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective

Solution: Migrated business-critical Card Management application from Microsoft Windows to a virtualized platform on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, SQL Server database, Microsoft Windows Server operating system

Hardware: Intel Quad-core Nehalem processor-based servers from Dell

Benefits: Achieved increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased hardware and power costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, improved server utilization, and improved business agility

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization not only reduced our operational costs, but more importantly made our business more agile to rapidly respond to ever-changing business needs. It also helped us to build an ideal infrastructure platform for the future.”

Ashish Mehta, director, IT & Infrastructure for Asia Pacific & Middle East, Euronet Worldwide Inc

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Customer: Eveready Industries India Limited

Industry: Manufacturing

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Converting a closely interwoven and complex distribution model into a unified solution to automate the company's sales and distribution backbone

Solution: Eveready chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including built-in clustering technologies, as the base platform to implement its mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite ERP solution

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, Oracle DB with 800 GB

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers including HP ProLiant and Dell

Benefits: Simplified management and gained complete freedom to scale up using low-cost commodity hardware; significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees, installing security patches, and reducing routine server hardening checks to a bare minimum

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux has greatly simplified management and given us complete freedom to scale up using low-cost commodity hardware with absolutely no compromise in performance or reliability. We have managed to achieve a significant TCO reduction by saving on unnecessary licensing fees that are associated with proprietary operating systems. The system is working so flawlessly that I feel that it's impossible to go wrong with Red Hat.”

Arup Choudhury, general manager, IT, Eveready Industries Ltd.

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Customer: Hikal Limited

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Needed to use technology to reduce operational cost, and deliver a sturdy operating system for Hikal's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and BIS applications

Solution: Hikal chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including its built-in clustering technology, as the base platform to implement its mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite

Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.2 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle DB (Approx. total database size is 1 TB)

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based IBM System x servers

Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of close to six months, complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and clustering technology delivers continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues, has helped in implementing the latest available features of Oracle E-Business Suite

“Our Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems have delivered continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues. Red Hat was the perfect balance as it combined the reliability of UNIX with a clear performance and security edge over proprietary systems.”

Falgun Shukla, senior general manager, IT, Hikal Ltd.

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Customer: Great Offshore Limited

Industry: Utilities: Oil & Gas: Offshore

Geography: Mumbai, India

Business Challenge: To design a robust, stable, high-performing, secure, and cost-effective Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system based on a combination of SAP and IBM DB2 technologies

Solution: Great Offshore selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating platform for its business-critical SAP and IBM DB2-based Enterprise Resource Planning system

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering technologies, SAP Business Suite (150 users) with modules such as Financials & Controlling (FICO), Sales & Distribution (S&D), Material Management (MM), Project System (PS), and Human Resources (HR), Database DB2 (Approx. avg. size of the database is 200 GB)

Hardware: 8 Intel Xeon processor-based IBM System x servers

Benefits: Decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, and increased hardware platform flexibility

“The SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system is our core IT system, and its base infrastructure needed to be robust and stable. In Red Hat, with its innovative and state-of-the-art technology, we found the right partner with which we can build a top-class infrastructure at a significantly lower total-cost-of-ownership.”

-Deepak Sachdeva, senior manager IT, Great Offshore Ltd.

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IBM Case Study

Customer: Corenet

Industry: Telecommunications

Deployment country: Finland

Solution: Autonomic Computing, Business Resiliency, Linux, Managing Business Infrastructure, Service Management, Systems & Network Management

IBM Business Partner: Red Hat

Overview Corenet Oy specializes in network monitoring and management services, as well as data communications solutions for enterprises, government bodies and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) integrators.

Business need:
Challenged to monitor various IT infrastructure components in its customers’ networks, Corenet needed to consolidate its management information so it could resolve problems more quickly. As a result, the company hoped to provide faster service to customers and become more competitive within its native country of Finland.

Solution:
Corenet deployed IBM Tivoli® Netcool® software to consolidate, correlate, filter and enrich events so that its staff could focus only on relevant events. It uses IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition software to perform automatic root-cause analysis based on network topology, and it relies on IBM Tivoli Netcool/Proviso software to handle performance management.

Benefits:
Enables quicker information retrieval with a single, consolidated browser-based interface; Avoids heavy software modifications with off-the-shelf type functionality; Cost-effectively and quickly develops solutions to address customer needs and integrate with external systems; Helps Corenet provide faster services to customers

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Companies: Bright Horizons Family Solutions; HJB Consulting

Industry: Child Care; Technology Consulting

Geography: United States

Business Challenge: Needed to deploy a Business Process Management solution to transform a paper-based capital requisition work flow into a scalable and automated system. The Business Process Management solution needed to fully integrate with the existing Oracle Application Server and Portal running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all within an exceedingly tight budget

Software: JBoss Enterprise Framework; JBoss jBPM, utilizing jBPM Process Definition Language (jPDL); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Oracle Database 10g

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers with EMC Celerra NS40 storage arrays

Benefits: Accelerated the requisition cycle from weeks to hours, provided senior management with better visibility into the capital expenditure pipeline, enabled requesters real time access to approval status via portal interface and through email notifications, saw 100 percent user adoption in the first month of operation

“This application will work for many other decentralized processes within our organization that require senior level review and approvals. We already have three to four projects lined up that will save Bright Horizons time and money.” – Nancy Johnson, Director of Supply Management, Bright Horizons

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"arrowhead" Trading System Enhances Speed, Reliability, Scalability and Transparency with Combination of Red Hat and Fujitsu Solutions

RALEIGH, N.C., Mar 22, 2025 -- Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux was selected by Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as the standard operating platform for its next-generation "arrowhead" trading system. Developed by TSE and Red Hat strategic partner FUJITSU LIMITED (Fujitsu), the "arrowhead" platform was designed to accelerate TSE's order response and information distribution speeds to bring a new level of execution to the Tokyo stock market.

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Customer: New India Assurance

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To reduce dependency on proprietary systems, and create a scalable, cost-effective, reliable, and secure IT infrastructure for deployment across thousands of locations

Solution: Migrated business-critical insurance, payroll, and overall IT infrastructure from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform and utilized Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat Training to ensure a smooth transition to the new company-standard system

Migration Path: SCO UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including clustering and file system technologies, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Red Hat Directory Server

Hardware: Intel Xeon Quad Core processor-based servers including; IBM System x346, HP Proliant DL580

Benefits: Increased hardware and application vendor flexibility by eliminating proprietary lock-in and increased ability to scale with low total cost of ownership (TCO) across distributed offices

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been deployed in over one thousand offices and has given us a competitive advantage by decreasing annual IT expenditures.”

-Asha Nair, general manager, NIA

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Customer: Manx Telecom – part of O2 and the Telefónica group of companies

Industry: Data Centre & Global Telecommunications Solutions

Geography: Isle of Man

Business Challenge: Needed a reliable, high-performing, flexible platform to deliver an optimized enterprise platform to customers

Migration path: Microsoft Server 2003 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including clustering and file system technologies

Solution: Utilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, after migrating from Microsoft Server 2003, to provide its customers with a cost-effective solution with 99.999% uptime

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including built-in clustering and file system technologies, Red Hat Training, and Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: HP, Cisco, Nokia Checkpoint, Zeus ZXTM

Benefits: Achieved superior performance on the managed service platforms. Delivered enhanced stability, resiliency, and flexibility of platform equipment and by doing so, enabled the company to offer cost-effective, flexible solutions to its customers

"In the telecommunications world, users expect ‘dial-tone’ reliability and a user experience that is second to none. We were impressed by Red Hat's reliability, ease-of-use and speed of applications on the platform that completely outperformed the previous solution. We have also realised numerous savings in terms of power, hardware support costs, and licensing costs."

--Stephen Trimble, Enterprise Hosting & Solutions Technical Manager, Manx Telecom

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Customer: SPARQ Solutions, ENERGEX, Ergon Energy

Industry: Utilities: Energy and Technology

Geography: Australia: South East Queensland

Business Challenge: To replace its end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that facilitates lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance

Migration Path: HP Alpha Tru64 UNIX servers to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers

Solution: Australian energy company reduced costs by more than $1 million by migrating systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and web applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, WebSCM web-based outage management application, Red Hat Training

Hardware: 50 Intel Xeon processor-based HP ProLiant DL380 servers

Benefits: Reduced hardware costs by approximately $1 million, reduced licensing costs by approximately $300,000, and achieved 100 percent availability over 12 months

“Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux saved SPARQ Solutions $300,000 on licensing costs for its outage management system, and contributed to a savings of $1 million that was related to the purchase of commodity based servers.”

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The company selects Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite for its business-critical systems

RALEIGH, NC – March 10, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swedish Internet company Voddler has standardized its movie service on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Voddler has also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite as the basis for its new infrastructure, providing the company with a centralized and scalable server platform.

Voddler offers its customers a wide variety of movies on-demand, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will enable the company to virtualize its web servers responsible for the movie service and the database servers containing all of its film titles.

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Customer: ResMed

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: Replacing 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 running Sun One Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Tru64 UNIX servers running Oracle E-Business Financials, both on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell servers. The six Solaris Sunfire V240 servers were replaced by the same number of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Dell hardware

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Hardware: 80 Dell servers, including four-node Red Hat cluster on Dell 2950s, front-ended with a load balancer

Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments and savings of approximately $200k on replaced Tru64 server licensing fees, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent local support

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Customer: Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PG Telco)

Red Hat Partner: Zmanda

Industry: Telecommunications (PG Telco); Backup and Archival Software (Zmanda)

Geography: Prairie Grove, Arkansas (PG Telco); Sunnyvale, CA (Zmanda)

Business Challenge: Regional rural telecom company needed an enterprise-class backup and recovery system to ensure business continuity, and a reliable and scalable operating system that would prevent the servers from crashing

Software: Amanda Enterprise 3.0 open source backup and recovery solution from Zmanda; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Hardware: Intel-based Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic Enterprise-Class Virtualized iSCSI SAN

Migration path: CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Zmanda’s Amanda Enterprise ensures that PG Telco data is regularly backed up and archived; the rock-solid reliability, stability, and enterprise-class support for the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system ensures that servers running Amanda as well as other mission-critical applications are always available

Moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made the biggest difference in our ability to keep our servers up and available. There’s nothing wrong with running CentOS at home. But for business? No. We need the enterprise support. From now on, everything will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-Scott Griffin, systems engineer, PG Telco

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Customer: Bilcare Research

Red Hat Partner: Taashee Linux Services

Industry: Pharmaceutical Research and Healthcare Industry

Geography: India

Business Challenge: To set up a scalable and cost-effective system infrastructure for core business that is easy to deploy and enables ease of management of a heterogeneous IT infrastructure with little impact on existing IT services

Solution: Bilcare Research virtualized its entire infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, providing on-demand business scalability, while achieving significant cost savings and increased operational efficiencies.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering technologies, SAP: mySAP Business Suite of Applications, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server

Hardware: Dell & IBM servers & storage system

Benefits: Attained a highly cost-effective and consistent virtualized IT infrastructure; reduced costs with a reduction in power, space, and management overhead costs; improved operational efficiency; and achieved on-demand provisioning time for new machines

“The hardware-assisted virtualization offered by Red Hat delivered enterprise-class performance and reliability resulting in an uninterrupted shift to a virtual environment."
-Manoj Arora, CIO, Bilcare Research

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Customer: GE Money Bank

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Czech Republic

Red Hat Premier Partner: Enlogit

Business Challenge: Needed to consolidate its technology infrastructure in order to scale with business growth and reduce dependency on high-end hardware and space resources for mission-critical operations

Migration Path: Sun Solaris on SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization on AMD Opteron-based servers

Solution: GE Money deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform on commodity hardware to consolidate its applications, the company utilized Red Hat virtualization and clustering technology for further system consolidation with the help of Red Hat Consulting

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform including integrated virtualization, clustering and file system technologies, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, IBM WebSphere, and Apache webservers

Hardware: AMD Opteron-based servers: x4100, x4200, x4600, x4440, x4140, v20z and v40z

Benefits: Increased operational flexibility, security, and reliability for its mission-critical infrastructure; reduced space required for servers by approximately 60 percent; scaled IT infrastructure for continued business growth.

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Customer: Carnation Auto

Red Hat Business Partner: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Industry: Automotive Service and Sales

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To set up a centralised IT system and solution that functions as a single window to address the various needs of stakeholders (e.g., customers, business partners, and employees of Carnation)

Solution: Tata Consultancy Services leveraged its automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization running on HP ProLiant servers. Applications in the SAP Business Suite will help Carnation Auto gather information about customers, sales, and budgets - as it builds a truly unique auto services business.

Software: SAP Business Suite applications comprising DBM (Dealer Business Management), BI (Business Intelligence), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Financials, Sales and Distribution, Human Resources, and Material Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite

Hardware: HP ProLiant BL 460c G6 servers, EVA 4400 SAN Storage, Cisco NW solution at Data Center, MSL Tape Backup

Benefits: Achieved a highly cost-effective and secure system based on open standards that scales and performs to meet the increasing demands of the business, enhanced process efficiencies, leading to more rapid access to business intelligence

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“We considered a number of operating systems as the platform for our business-critical SAP applications, and after much testing and evaluation, we selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform on HP ProLiant servers because the combination met all of our requirements and provided the most overall value, stability, and performance."
Mohit Agarwal,chief information officer, Carnation Auto

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Flexibility, cost savings and compatibility drive selection of Red Hat as its enabler for customer-focused technology development

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jordan's Security Depositary Center (SDC), a non-profit public utility institution that oversees the registration and deposit of securities, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation to its open source strategy.

SDC is currently implementing a number of e-services applications within an open source environment, including an e-payment system and the SDC Portal, which offers a wide range of electronic services. These services include enhanced account viewing, public data, statistical data, electronic initial public offering (e-IPO) and mailbox services.

In addition to the traditional benefits of working with open source, such as access to code, cost reduction and flexibility, SDC recognised the value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux interoperability as it deployed and developed with a range of hardware, including IBM and Dell. SDC has 20 x86 servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that drive a range of applications, including mail systems, its web portal and intranet.

Key to SDC's technology agility and management is the ability to manage its entire Linux environment from one console. Red Hat Network Satellite allows SDC to investigate and fix technical issues in a timely manner and with internal resources - assuring consistent run rates and performance.

“The main advantage to using open source and working with Red Hat is the flexibility to develop and maintain our technology assets internally,” said Samir Jaradat, CEO of SDC. “Red Hat not only saves us money, but it also provides us with a level of technology sophistication and interoperability that gives us the tools to develop solutions that directly meet the needs of our business.”

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Intel and HP Customer Success Story:

Customer: Arabian Automobiles

Business Challenge: Arabian Automobiles needed to transform its business technology infrastructure to support double-digit growth. This required increased performance, reliability, and scalability while adhering to open-standards based architectural principles

Solution: Following internal architectural principles and based on the recommendations of HP Services and Intel, Arabian Automobiles implemented Intel® Itanium processor–based HP Integrity servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux at the database tier and HP ProLiant server blades based on Intel® Xeon® processors at the application tier

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite: 38 modules with 20 additional major vertical extensions that support all business units, Oracle 9i RAC

Hardware: HP Integrity rx7640 Servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors, HP BL480c Server Blades with Intel Xeon processors, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrary

Benefits: Improved customer satisfaction by 15 percent, increased process automation to 80 percent from 40 percent, improved availability to 99.2 percent from, simplified management of IT with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on standards-based Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors. This provided a reliable, high-performance, and highly scalable infrastructure for Oracle® E-Business Suite and the integrated application modules running all of the company’s business units

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Background: One of the largest automobile distributors in the Middle East and the sole distributor for Nissan, Infiniti, and Renault in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The flagship company of the AW Rostamani Group, Arabian Automobiles believes its greatest asset is ensuring that every customer can leave any of its company showrooms with confidence that they are receiving the world’s finest driving technology backed by a level of service and support second to none.

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HP Customer Success Story:

Company: FarmaLink

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

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“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

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Company: ITI Neovision

Industry: Broadcast media

Geography: EMEA, Poland

Business Partner: Atom-Tech, Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in Poland recommended Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the solution

Business Challenge: ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local teams.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and Red Hat Cluster Suite

Hardware: HP BladeSystem BL460c

Migration Path: Gentoo Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: ITI Neovision has deployed a stable, reliable and officially supported platform which ensures availability of the company’s broadcast services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtualization has significantly improved hardware management in terms of full utilization of available servers. Red Hat virtualization can easily scale to accommodate the demand for new servers. The company has also achieved significant cost savings and obtained all the required components in one solution.

"With Red Hat we obtained everything we needed - operating system, virtualization, firewall etc. - in one package whereas with proprietary vendors we would have to buy everything separately. We have achieved significant cost savings by selecting the Red Hat solution.”
- Maciej Hajduk, IT Infrastructure Manager, ITI Neovision.

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Company: Alpine Electronics

Industry: Electronics: Consumer

Geography: United States

Business Challenge: Without a single integrated enterprise resource planning and supply chain management solution, Alpine lacked the consolidated business data required for accurate long-term planning

Software: SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP 6.0, SAP NetWeaver, IBM Cognos 8 Planning, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: Systemx: System x3850

Solution: IBM Global Business Services leveraged its electronics and automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite. Niteo, an IBM Business Partner, also helped to implement IBM Cognos Planning, which captures sales and budget data downloaded from the SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse system at the Japanese headquarters location

Benefits: Enhanced process efficiencies have led to much more rapid access to business intelligence. By using SAP ERP, monthly financial closes can be completed up to 30 percent faster than before, and there has been a 40 percent reduction in operational workload for the finance department.

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Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security

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Customer: Tintas Iquine

Industry: Manufacturing: Paint and Tints

Geography: Brazil

Business Challenge: Increase the stability and performance of business critical ERP applications

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Datasul, Progress Database, Trend Micro Security Solution

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers

Migration Path: UNIX/RISC based servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge servers

Benefits: Red Hat virtualization enabled increased stability, performances, and increased security on redundancy and backup, and Red Hat Satellite simplified systems management

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Customer: Sheela Foam

Partner: Keen & Able - FOSTERing Linux (Training Division)

Industry: Manufacturing

Geography: India

Challenge: To reduce dependence on UNIX systems, improve cost-efficiency ratio, simplify systems management, and improve scalability for business growth

Migration Path:Proprietary UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on Intel Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Oracle DB

Hardware: Dell 2950 PowerEdge server, Intel Quad Core Xeon-based E5410 x 2 (Dual CPU) Processors

Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in, doubled system performance, slashed costs by one-tenth translating into cost savings of over Rs. 40 lakh (USD $83,333), and gained the ability to independently manage systems

“Today, I have complete peace of mind because Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our Intel Xeon-based Dell PowerEdge server has delivered stability, performance gains, and cost savings while providing the ability to scale to the rapidly growing demands of our organization.”
--Pertish Mankotia, head of IT, Sheela Foam

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2009 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

COMPANY: Whole Foods Market

CATEGORY: Management Excellence

INDUSTRY: Consumer

GEOGRAPHY: North America

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost-effective operating platform and complementary management solution that would scale with the company's growth while increasing the security, manageability, and availability of business-critical applications

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting

HARDWARE: 75 HP x86 servers, 16 virtual servers

BENEFITS: Obtained an easy-to-use and reliable systems management solution that enabled increased productivity and reduced costs by increasing system administrator efficiency; Experienced increased performance and internal-user satisfaction of homegrown applications, including order processing applications.

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Company: Guangdong Telecom: BizNavigator

Geography: APAC: China

Industry: Telecom

Business Challenge: With continuous development of the BizNavigator platform, Guangdong Telecom needed to expand the capacity of the Internet Data Center (IDC) deployed in Guangdong, so that it would support more than 10 function modules, including Office Automation, Inventory Management, Network-based Anti-virus System and Enterprise Messaging

Solution: Guangdong Telecom deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on Dell PowerEdge 2950MLK servers based on Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2950MLK servers based on Quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series

Benefits: Reduced the probability of single point of failure, and improved the availability and manageability of the entire cluster system; saved even greater energy consumptions, and hence would reduce operational cost.

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Company: Banco Pastor

Industry: Financial Services Banking

Geography:Spain

Business Challenge: Improve payroll and human resource systems management and achieve cost savings performance improvements with an upgrade of the email infrastructure

Migration Path: From distributed platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes

Solution: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes to run SAP NetWeaver, SAP ERP, and IBM Lotus Notes software

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server v5.3, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SR3, SAP ERP 6.0 SR3, and IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration 7.0.2

Hardware: Two IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes, three and four IFLs

Benefits: The new email platform reduced recurrent costs by 30 percent, improved performance for IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration software and SAP applications, and guaranteed an exhaustive and scalable control of resources

“We have chosen Red Hat for the quality of its solutions and its outstanding technical support. Both Red Hat and IBM have clearly understood our project objectives, and together with Banco Pastor have been thoroughly committed to the proposal. We have built a very strong platform. We are delighted with what we have achieved.”
Montserrat Torres, computer systems manager of Banco Pastor

“Through the server consolidation benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class, customers like Banco Pastor can invest in innovative solutions that deliver important cost reductions and improve their services and security. The proven performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z allows Banco Pastor to increase their response capability and the availability of their business applications.”
Carlos Roldan, IBM System z Manager in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Israel

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