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Our customers utilize Red Hat products and solutions to address the business critical demands facing IT organizations today and they count on our support and expertise at every step, from deployment to development, to implementation and management.

Red Hat solutions provide unbeatable value, performance, security and reliability to medium and large enterprise businesses across a variety of industries and sectors.

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Red Hat Solutions Provide Lower Saxony Police with High Availability Web Applications for Law Enforcement



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Customer: Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen (LSKN)

Industry: Public Sector

Geography: Germany

Business Challenge: Needed a high-availability platform for the Lower Saxony Police to use as the infrastructure for its web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis, while keeping operational and maintenance costs at a minimum

Solution: LSKN implemented Red Hat solutions to serve as the infrastructure for its mission-critical, web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, BEA WebLogic

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360 servers with standard x86 processors

Migration Path: Siemens-Fujitsu BS2000/OSD to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; Increased scalability, availability, and performance; Achieved cost savings in operations, support, and licensing fees; Gained the ability to meet and exceed national regulations and requirements; Increased system security; Simplified management of systems
“Our main concerns are absolute reliability and cost effectiveness throughout the entire lifecycle of our server-based applications. Our decision to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux has proven to be one of the best we have made in recent years.”
-- Dieter Meyer, Head of UNIX-Service-Center, LSKN


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New India Assurance Builds a Cost-Effective, Scalable, and Secure Infrastructure based on Red Hat Solutions



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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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ProRail Keeps Trains on the Right Track, Thanks to Red Hat

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Industry: Transportation

Geography: The Netherlands

Business challenge: Maintaining an uninterrupted rail service. Realizing an uptime of 100 percent.

Migration Path: Migrating existing applications, including those that suffered problems with the performance of BEA Weblogic on OpenVMS. Building new applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Global File System with cluster environment, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network Provisioning Module, Red Hat Certificate System, Red Hat Consulting, and Red Hat Training and Certification.

Benefits: Easy update policy, stable system, 100 percent uptime in the first quarter of 2008

”We wanted a stable, robust, yet flexible infrastructure and finally chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for most new projects as the Red Hat operating system best suits our requirements and objectives for future business plans."
-- Mike Bos, infrastructure manager, ProRail


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Red Hat Directory Server Gives Dartmouth an Ivy League-Worthy Identity Management Solution



Industry: Higher Education

Geography: New Hampshire

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

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

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Directory Server

Benefits: Eliminated replication issues and increased security in seamless transition

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

- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College

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Basel University Relies on Red Hat Directory Server for Authorization and Authentication



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Customer: Basel University

Industry: Education

Geography: Switzerland

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

Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server

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

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

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Highmark: Red Hat Provides Cost-Effective Solution for Record Management



Red Hat Provides Cost-Effective Solution for Record Management



Customer: Highmark Healthcare

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: US: Pennsylvania

Business Challenge: To maintain secure health records for over 4.1 million insured customers through a manageable and cost-effective system.

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network, Red Hat Network Satellite

Hardware: JuTzu, Race servers, HPDL rat mouse server

Benefits: Approximately 30% savings in hardware/software licensing costs. An almost 50% reduction in hardware (78 CPUs to 42). More than $470,000 long-term savings through the directory server ($500,000 + future costs estimate from Sun versus one-time $30,000 cost from Red Hat). Higher performance and security. Readily available support.

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