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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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Customer: INFOnline

Industry: Internet audience measurement

Geography: Bonn, Germany

Business Challenge: Build a new, enterprise-grade, multi-tier storage and backup architecture to ensure high availability and data security for continuous Internet Audience Measurement of more than 1,300 leading German news and entertainment websites


Migration Path: INFOnline moved from a simple legacy hard-disk backup solution to a multi-tier storage infrastructure with clustered fail-over capacities based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and SEP sesam on IBM System x and System p servers, as well as various IBM storage hardware


Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network Satellite, SEP sesam, Nagios Software Groundwork (for monitoring), Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Global File System


Hardware: IBM System x servers, IBM System p servers, 2 IBM DS 3400 and 1 IBM DS 8000 hard-disk storage, Hardware TS3100 tape library


Benefits: Achieved a scalable and highly reliable storage and backup system capable of handling an increasing amount of usage data of currently more than 30 GB daily from a growing number of websites monitored by INFOnline

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Customer: mCarbon Tech Innovation Private Limited

Industry: Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design a stable, flexible, high-performance, scalable, reusable, and cost-effective software infrastructure platform for its solution delivery framework

Solution: Partnered with Red Hat to build the software infrastructure platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite on IBM System x servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite, MySQL database, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Hardware: Intel processor-based servers from IBM, IBM System x 3650 Servers

Benefits: Increased flexibility, eliminated vendor lock-in, reduced TCO , simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, enhanced re-usability, reduced time-to-market, and increased repeat sales

“Our partnership with Red Hat has enabled us to offer a robust, scalable, high-performance, flexible, and cost-effective technology platform to our customers. It has helped us to deliver futuristic technology solutions that drive telecom innovation.”
--Brij Mohan Mahendru, Co- Founder & Chief Technology Officer, mCarbon

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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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Customer: Lifespring Hospitals Private Limited

Industry: Healthcare Services

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design a reliable, scalable, high-performance, flexible, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to handle the rapid growth of the organization and to provide quality and affordable healthcare to its customer

Solution: LifeSpring chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and a
number of Red Hat certified, enterprise-class, open source software solutions to
build its entire IT infrastructure

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 Standard and Advanced Platform, included integrated virtualization,
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Directory Server, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Open Source Trouble Ticketing System OTRS, Elastix 2.0, Alfresco Community Edition, Moodle 1.8.12, and Zabbix version 1.8

Hardware: Sun X4140 with dual 64-bit Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and Hitachi AMS2100 iSCSI storage

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,
gained higher customer satisfaction

“Red Hat, along with enterprise-class open source solutions from its certified ISV partners, helped us leverage our IT resources to strategically build the right platform for tomorrow.”
–Sujeet Kumar, manager, IT, LifeSpring

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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: 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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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: 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: 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: Asociación Técnica Cajas de Ahorros (ATCA)

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Spain

Business Challenge: Developing and maintaining an efficient, secure, and scalable e-banking system for its associates

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Solution: Migrated from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM blade servers to reduce costs, increase scalability, and increase the IT department's ability to focus on business objectives

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Apache, Tomcat, and customer development tools and applications, DB2 Databases

Hardware: IBM blade servers with Xeon processors, boot from SAN (Hitachi cabins), with dualpath and asynchronic replica at 400 km

Benefits: Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides ATCA with reliability, scalability, and flexibility at a low cost, enabling ATCA to adapt the infrastructure to its business needs

“Red Hat’s open source solutions provide greater flexibility and security than proprietary alternatives, which are much more opaque. It provides us with a total guaranty of high availability. Furthermore, it offers an optimal value for money.”
Pablo Fuster, ATCA’s Systems Manager

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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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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: Verizon Communications Inc.

INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Optimized Systems

INDUSTRY: Telecom; Broadband, Wireless, Wireline

GEOGRAPHY: North America

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a reliable and cost effective solution for its SAP and PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning applications that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure

MIGRATION PATH: UNIX-based SMP platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Network Satellite, SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle RAC

HARDWARE: 300 Dell and HP servers

BENEFITS: Reduced costs, improved performance, increased ability to scale and prepared for future growth, increased energy conservation efforts

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Company: National City Corporation

Industry: Financial services

Geography: North America

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

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“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)

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Industry: Construction & Engineering

Geography: Headquarters and global operations is based in the Principality of Liechtenstein

Business Challenge: To migrate all SAP® business-critical applications from a
discontinued legacy UNIX environment to a scalable and reliable platform and to eliminate vendor
lock-in

Migration Path: HP Tru64 UNIX on Alpha Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 on x86_64
commodity based hardware

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System
(GFS), ATIX Open-Sharedroot Extension, SAP applications including SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM), and the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform

Hardware: 185 HP ProLiant servers, the largest machines have 32 CPUs with 128GB RAM

Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; achieved an estimated 50 percent overall cost reduction; increased performance by more than 100 percent; provided ease of management and reliable uptime; reduced electricity costs and carbon footprint; and provided the company with a long-term platform strategy that will help retain expert knowledge and enable the team to be highly responsive to the increasing requirements of a global manufacturing, sales and service organization

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"We migrated to SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers after evaluation and testing. Since migrating, we have have experienced increased performance of more than 100 percent. We also reduced IT costs with a commoditized architecture. Having a tight level of integration between Red Hat and SAP support organizations gives us the confidence to continue along this path and further reduce our costs by migrating all of our SAP environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-- Martin Petry, CIO at Hilti

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Customer: Monash University: Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Industry: Education

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: Monash University needed to construct a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration.

Solution:cluster built on Dell PoweEdge blade servers and Dell PowerVault storage running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers with Intel Xeon processors, Dell PowerEdge M1000e enclosures, Dell PowerVault MD3000 modular disk storage arrays, Dell PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosures

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Platfrom OCS (Open Cluster Stack)

Benefits: Able to add a new server node in minutes with no downtime, able to support 400% more research projects, research completed in weeks vs. months, favorable price, lower power requirements, easily expandability of both cluster and storage

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Customer: Healthplan Services (HPS)

Geography: North America

Industry: Healthcare

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

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Industry: Local Government

Geography: The Netherlands

Opportunity: Renew part of the city’s IT infrastructure and create a future-proof platform for its heterogeneous environment

Migration Path: Windows and Unix with small amounts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, including virtualization and clustering

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Consulting, Basis Registratie Systeem (BRS)

Hardware: 6 Dell 1750, 1850, 1950, and 2950 servers

Benefits: Run more applications with less hardware, enable cost- and space-savings, provide scalability, offer capacity to support future growth and deliver disaster-recovery capabilities

“One of the key benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization is that we can install and roll out a new application in 60 minutes to all of our systems, compared to four hours per system previously.”
-- Hennie Stam, Senior System Administrator, DS+V Division at City of Rotterdam.

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Geography: Republic of Korea

Business Challenge: Searched for a reliable, high-performing alternative to reduce server failure, optimize resources, and enable faster response times

Migration Path: From UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization technology, Oracle database

Hardware: Dell PE2950/ PE1850, EMC CX3-10

Benefits: Achieved significant cost savings by deploying a reliable, open source virtualization solution with Red Hat, reduced maintenance costs with hardware integration and clustering, acquired operation flexibility, and experienced ease of use and ease of management

"By deploying Red Hat’s open source-based virtualization solution, we were able to receive the proven stability of the platform and Red Hat’s reliable support and services.”
Hwang Sae Yong, assistant manager of Computer Operation Team for Korea Federation of Banks

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Company: SPH Search

Industry: Information technology

Geography: Singapore

Business Challenge: SPH Search needed a reliable and secure solution to drive its new search engine services, Rednano,sg

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite

Hardware: HP Intel Xeon-based servers

Benefits: Established a robust, reliable, and secure search engine with the confidence of enterprise-level support

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Customer: University of Sydney

Industry: Education

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

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

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

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

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

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Company: Tribune Company

Industry: Media

Geography: Chicago

Business Challenge: Reduce costs and time-to-market of new interactive products by moving to a virtualized environment based on x86 machines and open source Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite

Hardware: Commodity Dell and IBM x86 systems

Benefits: Cut capital as well as ongoing operational infrastructure costs, and boost competitiveness by flexibly bringing new products to market more quickly

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Industry: Real Estate

Geography: Germany

Business Challenge: Dramatically reduce energy use and operating costs while improving overall performance and manageability of servers and maintaining zero downtime

Migration Path: 32-bit Windows server environment to 64-bit server environment based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in virtualization technology

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Red Hat Global Support Services

Hardware: HP Blade Systems

Benefits: Reduced energy usage by 25 percent and hardware cost per server by 60 percent, carved out operations costs by 10 percent with streamlined systems management, achieved full return on investment for the project within three months, and maintains consistent zero downtime

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