Red Hat Customer Stories

Leading stock exchange in the Gulf Cooperation Council region migrates from AIX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to transform its world-class securities exchange

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Qatar Exchange, the principal stock market of Qatar and one of the leading stock markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council region (GCC region), has migrated from IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a high-performance trading platform for investors in the Qatari market.

Qatar Exchange was established through a strategic partnership between Qatar Holding and NYSE Euronext on June 2009. Qatar Exchange offers investors the benefits of a world-class securities market and exchange operating sophisticated and state-of-the-art technology systems where speed and accuracy of transactions are key. To deliver this level of service to local and international investors in Qatar, companies and markets demanded a stable, scalable and high-performance, yet cost-effective, IT infrastructure to underpin mission-critical back-office applications and the core trading platform.

With reliable performance and security criteria in mind, Qatar Exchange’s team selected Red Hat as its trusted technology partner, building its mission-critical trading platform and back-office systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite and Red Hat clustering technologies.

The migration of Qatar Exchange's mission-critical trading applications and databases from IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has since offered improved levels of operational flexibility. Red Hat's open source strategy has also offered Qatar Exchange a long-term infrastructure roadmap based on open source technologies, which offer robust security and ease of management. Red Hat Enterprise Linux was a logical fit as it not only met these criteria but is also the technology platform at NYSE Euronext, which helped to ease integration and enabled homogeneity across the exchanges' IT architectures.

“Qatar Exchange currently executes around 4,000 exchange transactions per day and 12,000 orders per day, making the trading platform a truly mission-critical application that needs to perform reliably under pressure,” said Jassim Bukashisha, IT director at Qatar Exchange. “Unplanned downtime is not an option, so we need to be confident that we have the right technology partner behind us. Red Hat provided us with an enterprise-class solution that is high in performance, incredibly robust and proven to be secure, all at an affordable price without any compromise on performance.”

Qatar Exchange selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run its trading applications, while utilizing Red Hat Network Satellite for system updates and Red Hat clustering for maximizing uptime for this vital transaction platform. In addition to Red Hat, the trading platform ecosystem integrates Oracle to run the trading databases and Tomcat for web user interfaces. The system runs on HP - DL 380 rack-mounted servers running Intel x86 CPUs, while providing storage by HP - EVA 4400 and SAN switches by Brocade. In addition, trading applications were provided by NYSE Euronext technologies and the system is equipped to run in-house developed applications.

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: AIX to RHEL , EMEA , Financial Services , Geography , Industry , Microsoft to RHEL , Press Release , Red Hat Cluster Suite , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Network Satellite , Red Hat Solutions , Red Hat Systems Management , RHEL Migration Path , UNIX to RHEL

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.

For more information about Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4, visit www.redhat.com/red_hat_network.

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, visit www.redhat.com/rhel.

: Geography , Government , Industry , North America , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Network , Red Hat Network Satellite , Red Hat Solutions

Barceló Viajes relies on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to consolidate its datacenters in Madrid and Palma de Mallorca

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Barceló Viajes, a leading Spanish travel operator, has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to consolidate its datacenters that support the company's mission-critical business platforms. By virtualizing its systems, Barceló aims to reduce its server farm by half. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Barceló has enhanced the ease of management of its systems and has experienced improved flexibility, scalability and performance.

Following an agreement with American Express Travel to form the joint venture “American Express Barceló Viajes”, one of the leading Spanish corporate travel companies, Barceló required the installation of a new Business Continuity Plan, which required the establishment of a new datacenter in Madrid, in addition to the Palma de Mallorca datacenter. Barceló expanded its existing deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to its new datacenter, and implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization across all of its systems to support all of Barceló’s operating and business applications, including SAP solutions, Oracle databases, e-mail management, internal project management applications and monitoring.

"We cannot afford any service downtime. Having carried out successful projects with Red Hat, we were confident this implementation would be rolled out smoothly. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offered a highly reliable foundation for our mission-critical applications that is capable of supporting large workloads. It has enabled smooth integration with the rest of our operating applications," said Mar Muñoz, systems director, Barceló Viajes.

In addition to a new Business Continuity Plan, Barceló also required a solution that could meet the continuous growth of its service offerings. Barceló’s legacy systems required an ongoing expansion of its server farm, resulting in increasingly complex management and growth of human and hardware resources. By virtualizing its platform with Red Hat, Barceló expects to improve the scalability of its infrastructure and gain the ability to take full advantage of the resources available. Red Hat is working with Barceló with the objective of reducing its server farm by half and enabling Barceló to realize savings in operating costs, energy consumption and space.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides Barceló with a simpler and more efficient management tool for its platforms. Amongst other functionalities, the organization can deploy new virtual servers in a few minutes, thus responding more quickly to an increase in demand for its IT services.

"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization based on KVM technology provides us with enhanced capabilities, such as live migration, high availability, system scheduler and power saver, that combined with the solution's cost efficiency and powerful performance, meets Barceló's business needs. We are convinced that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will continue to provide market-leading capabilities," said Muñoz. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has a promising product roadmap that we consider very powerful."

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: EMEA , Geography , Industry , International , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization , Red Hat Solutions , Transportation , Virtualization

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization expected to deliver significant cost savings

RALEIGH, NC - October 12, 2025 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jeppesen, a Boeing Company and a leading provider of products, services and software for the aviation industry, has chosen to standardize its business-critical software build systems for its crew and fleet optimization software on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Jeppesen, already a long-time user of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite, has migrated business-critical systems to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Jeppesen achieved close to bare metal performance during its testing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, demonstrating that the Red Hat platform can help the company to achieve its goal of reducing both hardware costs and time to market. By standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Jeppesen expects to achieve significant total cost savings over the first three years of deployment.

"Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization proved itself to be the clear leader during our testing, as it clearly demonstrated that it has the necessary performance levels to enable us to achieve our cost-saving targets," said Annika Hansson, IT manager at Jeppesen. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides us with an ideal platform to get the most out of our current hardware at a very attractive price point."

Jeppesen develops crew and fleet optimization systems for the transportation industry. It uses a method of "continuous integration" in its software engineering process whereby any new developments to the software undergo continuous and thorough automated testing.

"We cannot afford any downtime of our build systems as this would mean that we cannot provide critical updates and fixes for our customers whose businesses depend on our optimization software," said Kalle Kiviaho, systems administrator at Jeppesen. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides the reliability and scalability that we demand and has given us confidence to trust our business to run on it."

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: EMEA , Geography , Industry , International , Media + Technology , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization , Red Hat Network Satellite , Red Hat Solutions , Virtualization

Wireless Leader Builds on Its Use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat's Virtualization Portfolio


RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Qualcomm Incorporated has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a key
virtualization platform for its production workloads.

Qualcomm first implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2003 and became an early adopter of the virtualization technology integrated into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform in March 2007. The company also
became active in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta program in 2009, allowing it to test the performance, scalability and density features offered by the solution.

“After completing our formal evaluation of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization portfolio, we've begun to put the solution into our production environments,” said Bob Gerling, staff IT engineer at Qualcomm. “Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was a logical next step in our evolving Red Hat technology collaboration that builds on our
extensive use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its integrated virtualization technology.”

Qualcomm today deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 as its base operating system and leverages the solution's integrated KVM hypervisor to also deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 as its guest operating system. It manages these virtual instances with the management tools included in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is now one of our key, standard virtualization platforms,” said Gerling. “We look forward to continuing to work with Red Hat as its platform offers organizations like ours an enterprise-grade, open source alternative to traditional virtualization offerings.”

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Italian health facility migrates mission-critical systems from Citrix and Microsoft to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RALEIGH, NC – August 30, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Policlinico San Marco, a health services provider in Italy, has standardized its mission-critical infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The organization migrated from Citrix XenServer on Microsoft Windows to the Red Hat combination on Dell servers to achieve heightened performance, security and scalability.

The combined Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment runs Policlinico San Marco's infrastructure services, including email, instant messaging, IP telephony and Oracle databases, as well as high-end medical applications such as the management system for radiology. These services must be up and running at all times so as to deliver safe patient care. To help deliver this level of reliability, Policlinico San Marco selected Red Hat based on the performance, reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

'We decided to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for both performance and cost reasons,” said Francesco Camisa, deputy managing director of Policlinico San Marco. “By selecting Red Hat for our infrastructure we now have a secure and scalable platform that we can rely on, which allows us to focus on our core business. The combination of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is powerful with a shared ecosystem, fast ROI and low TCO.”

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: Dell , EMEA , Geography , Healthcare , Industry , Microsoft to RHEL , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization , Red Hat Solutions , RHEL Migration Path , Virtualization

Norwegian Hosting Company Migrates From CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Red Hat Subscription Value

Raleigh, NC - June 1, 2025 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Basefarm, one of Northern Europe's leading suppliers of Internet-based operations and services, is migrating its CentOS-based systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. With its migration, Basefarm gains the value of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription, including reliable support, a robust certified ecosystem and access to the latest tested and quality-controlled Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology.

Basefarm delivers operational services to businesses and organizations that use the Internet as a primary sales channel. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as the Red Hat Network Satellite systems management solution, Basefarm is now enabled to better support its growing infrastructure and offer its customers, who rely on Basefarm for their critical e-commerce businesses, high reliability and better performance.

"We are standardizing the Linux part of our platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and are migrating all installations based on other Linux distributions, including CentOS, to the reliable Red Hat platform," said Bjart Kvarme, CTO at Basefarm. "Red Hat's subscription model provides us with both a strong technology base and the reliable support and certifications that we need in order to keep our critical business operations running smoothly. Our customers will also benefit from our migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with our ability to leverage the robust Red Hat partner ecosystem and its thriving community."

In addition to its migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite, Basefarm also recently became certified as a Red Hat Managed Services Partner.

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About Basefarm

Basefarm is one of Northern Europe's leading actors in operational and IT-related services on the net. Basefarm delivers operational services to business and organizations that use the Internet as an important customer channel. We direct our services towards customers who have high quality demands, anticipate growth, and aim for a steady rate of development. We specialize in effective operation of services with high traffic and complexity, such as portals, online publications, streaming services, search engines, and e-commerce solutions. The more than 130 clients deliver services in 15 European countries. Basefarm has about 200 employees divided into offices in Oslo, Stockholm and Amsterdam.

: EMEA , Geography , Industry , Media + Technology , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Network , Red Hat Solutions , Red Hat Systems Management , RHEL Migration Path

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization delivers flexibility, scalability, security and cost-effectiveness to Oxilion's new virtual datacenter service

Raleigh, NC - June 10, 2025 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Netherlands hosting company Oxilion has launched a virtual datacenter service for its customers using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as its foundational virtualization technology. Oxilion customers now have the advantages of a highly flexible, scalable and cost-effective environment with the freedom to manage their own infrastructure over the Internet.

Oxilion's virtual datacenter service enables its customers to configure networks, storage and systems in the same way as with a physical datacenter, but with the ease and convenience of doing so remotely, using a web-based portal. This is designed to deliver benefits typically associated with cloud computing, such as zero capital expenditure, "pay as you go" pricing and the elasticity to scale up or down to meet changing business requirements.

Today's launch of the Oxilion virtual datacenter based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the culmination of Oxilion's year-long search for a reliable technology partner to help it meet growing market demand for a virtual datacenter service. The company found many vendor solutions too costly, while the traditional proprietary licensing model was a barrier to innovation.

Development of the virtual datacenter service took just ten weeks, with Red Hat providing the infrastructure through its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product and Oxilion developing the portal through which customers gain a personalized view of their systems.

Henk Jan Hogebrug, sales manager at Oxilion, notes the advantages to Oxilion customers of basing the new service on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, "Red Hat has enabled us to provide our customers with the winning combination of advanced virtualization technology, a stable, secure solution and very competitive pricing."

"We have been able to deliver an innovative service to our customers with a partner like Red Hat, which works to the same high standards and rapid timescales as we do," said Larik-Jan Verschuren, technical manager at Oxilion.

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About Oxilion

Founded in April 2000, Oxilion focuses on internet services within the datacenter. Over the past decade, the company has grown into a major hosting provider, delivering services from five datacenters to over 7,000 customers in the Netherlands and further afield.

For more information about Oxilion, see www.oxilion.nl/about-oxilion

: EMEA , Geography , Industry , Media + Technology , Press Release , Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization , Red Hat Solutions , Virtualization