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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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Business Challenge: To replace an end-of-life proprietary system, IBM Websphere, with a standardized infrastructure; rewrite and deploy business critical applications by 2012, and reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Solution: SFR selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop Java applications based on open source industry standards while remaining fully supported by a trusted partner
Software: Application servers: Solaris Sparc x86; Web servers: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle 10i
Hardware: 6 units HP DL580 G5 for customer service, 13 units HP DL 580 G5 for catalogue, and 4 units HP DL 580 G5 for order entry
Migration Path: Migrated from IBM Websphere and Oracle WebLogic
Benefits: SFR accelerated Java deployments compared to the previous Oracle WebLogic and IBM Websphere-based system. The quality of support has improved through shorter response times from the support teams.
Business Challenge: To create a state-of-the-art middleware infrastructure for a global shipment status processing system based on industry-standard hardware, while ensuring maximum flexibility by integrating it with existing components, cost effectiveness, and scalability
Migration Path: Proprietary HP-UX operating system running on mainframe servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on industry-standard x86 servers
Solutions: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle WebLogic (for database access), Oracle 10 Database
Hardware: HP Proliant Servers
Benefits: Gained flexibility and the ability to accommodate new customer requests; saved more than 50 percent by migrating to the new base installation; realised even further cost savings when scaling the platform further to meet market demand; avoided lock-in to proprietary software licensing, hardware, and programming languages
“With Red Hat's open source subscription model, we can scale up and down easily without worrying about price per CPU creating unexpected extra costs. By migrating our Shipment Status Processing installation to JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have saved around fifty percent compared to competitive software license models.”
-- Antonio Mastrolorito, Chief IT Architect, Lufthansa Cargo AG
Business Challenge: To reduce operational and maintenance costs by standardizing and automating the server ecosystem to manage hotel operations across all sites
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Heterogeneous hardware by different manufacturers
Benefits: Standardization and homogenization of IT infrastructure for greater control over an entire server estate; Efficient management with greater flexibility and scalability; Reduction in support and maintenance costs; Simplification
“ We are more than satisfied with the quality of solutions and services provided by Red Hat. The complex nature of this project suggested that the implementation would be complicated. However, thanks to the help and support of Red Hat, we were able to complete the project quickly and effectively.”
-- Julio Matarranz, Head of Corporate IT, NH Hotels
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
Business Challenge: An aging, inflexible legacy system could no longer support Seedco's highly successful EarnBenefits program that helps low-income workers access a range of public and private benefits and work supports.
Solution: A web-based application built using JBoss Enterprise Middleware running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System, Hibernate Framework, JBoss Seam Framework and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: Industry-standard Intel-based x86 servers
Benefits: The new application allowed Seedco to streamline the process of determining eligibility and accelerate access to benefits by qualified individuals. The solution also contributed to the organization's bottom line, as other non-profit organizations are licensing the software solution to use in their own benefits programs.
“JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extremely sophisticated technology that can be used to address almost every kind of enterprise problem. I really don't see any other offering that competes with it.”
-- Jake Kirby, Vice President of Information Technology, Seedco
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
Industry: Consumer, Media + Technology, Automotive Services
Geography: North America
Business challenge: To increase performance and flexibility for growth, while creating savings around software support and maintaining reliability and availability
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PeopleSoft
Hardware: Hewlett Packard (HP) DL380 G5
Migration path: Sun Solaris and Oracle-based PeopleSoft to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Realized significant cost savings; Increased flexibility, performance, and infrastructure homogeneity; Experienced an ease of migration and improved, more efficient support
“From engineers to application developers to customers to management, we've had nothing but positive migration reviews.”
-- Dane Bamburry, Senior Enterprise Architect, Cox Enterprises
New version of systems management solution enables organizations to more easily manage the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform; Offers improvements in subscription management, compliance and content management
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 delivers compliance improvements, greater flexibility in content management and improved subscription management. It also provides support for managing the newly released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform.
Red Hat Network Satellite is a systems management platform that enables IT organizations to efficiently manage the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is an industry-leading solution that optimizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems so that they are properly secured, operating efficiently and compliant with various standards. Compared to other commercial solutions, it is less complex and costly to implement, and compared to home-grown solutions, it more closely follows best practices and scales to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux more efficiently.
"We've been using Red Hat Network Satellite for several years now as a key component in the efficient management of our IT Operations,” said Kevin Masaryk, senior Linux/UNIX administrator at Salt River Project. “We continue to be impressed with the power and versatility of the product and are excited to see the release of version 5.4.”
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 adds support for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, enabling organizations to take advantage of the improved reliability, performance, scalability and infrastructure flexibility delivered in the latest release of the leading operating platform. The release also delivers improvements spanning subscription management, compliance and content management. New improvements in Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 include:
* The addition of SELinux support to RHN Satellite configuration management, easing deployment of RHN Satellite-managed configuration files on an SELinux-deployed client system.
* New reporting capabilities to assist with audits and compliance-related activities.
* Staged deployment scheduling, allowing for thousands of systems to be updated even during short maintenance windows.
* Support for adding and managing third-party content repositories, enabling a more automated environment with less manual interaction and chance for error.
* New FlexGuest entitlement support for virtual systems.
Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4 is available to subscribing customers worldwide today.
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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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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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
Challenge: To cost-effectively drive datacenter growth to scale with business needs
Solution: A financial transaction cloud built on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Training
Hardware: Dell R7 10s with 64gigs of RAM, 2-3 processors
Benefits: Achieved scalability and flexibility for its datacenter; built a successful cloud to enable customers and partners to pay only for consumed services; expanded performance capabilities of its datacenter; enabled PCI compliance for its systems; experienced up to 60 percent cost savings
“Since our servers were already running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was a natural addition. To have both our operating system and virtualization technology from Red Hat, the synergies made a lot of sense.”
-- Kris Glover, vice president of Software Development at Ganart Technologies
Business Challenge: To create a secure, flexible, highly-available virtual environment for the company's new Virtual Data Center with cloud capabilities that provides Oxilion's customers with the freedom to create and move virtual machines and upgrade or downgrade their rented capacities with Oxilion’s services
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, web-based portal (Apache/Php/Java/XML) that controls the API communication with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Hardware: Computing nodes: Dell R710 servers with 2 six-core Intel X5670 Processors and 144GB RAM each; Storage: DellEquallogic SAN (SAS and SATA) PS6000X and PS6000E; LeftHand P4500G2 SAS Multisite SAN; Gbps network based on Nortel, HP, and Dell switches, soon to be updated to 10 Gbps networking
Benefits: Increased security, flexibility, manageability, and availability for the company's Virtual DataCenter and cloud services; decreased costs while expanding functionality and performance
“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the only product that delivers on our cloud, flexibility, scalability, availability, manageability, and cost requirements.” -- Henk Jan Hogebrug, sales manager at Oxilion
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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Business Challenge: To consolidate hardware resources in order to build a high-performance platform that is flexible, secure, scalable, and cost-effective
Solution: Growing Opportunity deployed its mission-critical applications, including portfolio management application and mail server on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, and other open source software components, including openLDAP, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, eMerge (T24 – Community Banking), SAMBA file server, Apache Web Server, MySQL, DNS & DHCP Servers
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from Dell
Benefits: Increased flexibility, eliminated vendor lock-in, decreased hardware and power costs by 50 percent, simplified management, increased scalability and performance, improved server utilization, operational efficiency, and business agility
“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization not only improved our operational efficiency and reduced our costs but, more importantly, it made our business more agile to rapidly respond to changing business needs, and helped us to build the right infrastructure platform for tomorrow.”
Immanuel Jeyaraj, head – Information Technology, Growing Opportunity
Business Challenge: To design a reliable, stable, high-performance, robust, and cost-effective mailing and backup solution
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows running Microsoft Active Directory to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: KSFL chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux along with other open source systems to implement its mailing, firewall, proxy, and backup solution
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Postfix mailing solution, Squid Proxy server, clamd anti-virus solution, Samba server
Hardware: Intel processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, enhanced procurement process, improved business agility
“Red Hat’s solutions have improved the agility of our business significantly and multiplied our business activity multifold, taking our business to the next level.”-- P. S. Dey, head, Information Technology, KSFL
Customer: National Commodities & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX)
Industry: Financial Trading
Geography: Pan India
Business Challenge: To design a reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective IT system on open architecture with 99.99 percent uptime for business-critical applications
Solution: Developed business-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to achieve high availability, increased flexibility and performance while reducing costs
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows Server
Hardware: Stratus Server boxes for the trading systems; IBM Servers (More than 100 in primary datacenter and 30 in disaster recovery site of NCDEX)
Benefits: High availability, increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased performance.
“Open systems, like all other hardware and software, require a robust support infrastructure, which Red Hat is able to provide.”-- Nirmalendu Jajodia, CTO, NCDEX
Business Challenge: To design a reliable, stable, high-performance, scalable, and cost-effective SAP-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
Solution: Marico migrated its mission-critical SAP application tier from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and increased flexibility, scalability, and performance while reducing costs.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, SAP Business Suite (R3 and BW), Oracle 10 G DB (Approx. size 1 TB for R3), HP-UX for database
Hardware: HP Blade System C 7000 with BL 860 C (2 Nos. Total 4 CPUs) – For Database tier; HP BL 460 G6 servers (4 Nos. Total 8 CPUs) – For SAP application tier
Migration Path: HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform
Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased total cost of ownership (TCO) by 50 percent, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance
“We make our IT decisions after thoroughly examining and understanding the potential impact on our business, performance requirements, and the net impact on our operating costs. In that sense, running SAP Business Suite applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform delivers maximum value to our business, enabling business growth.” -Girish Rao, head of Information Technology, Marico
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
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
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.
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
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
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem
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Company: Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Columbus, OH
Business Challenge: Nationwide needed a cost-effective and highly-available architecture that would scale to enable the company's rapid growth. The platform also needed to maintain Nationwide’s high customer satisfaction standards while improving availability, reducing infrastructure costs, and decreasing management complexity for business-critical applications used by Nationwide agents.
Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DBMS
Benefits: Nationwide was able to reduce the total time it takes to restart server clusters by 35 percent, and achieve faster time to deployment and problem resolution by identifying and fixing two long-term bugs in its architecture that had affected scale and memory utilization, saving hundreds of hours of IT time.
2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth
Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training
Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support Download case study PDF
2010 Red Hat and JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Outstanding Open Source Architecture
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Customer: Union Pacific Corporation
Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
Industry: Freight Transportation Services
Business Challenge: With rising costs, and an aging mainframe IT infrastructure, Union Pacific’s ability to scale for growth was limited. Union Pacific needed a stable and capable platform to migrate its mainframe environment.
Solution: To develop a more flexible operating platform to build its distributed IT environment, Union Pacific is migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based virtualized infrastructure to replace the mainframe. Union Pacific also needed to develop a thinner web application tier, and the company turned to Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware to develop a highly customized, web application platform to run in the virtualized Java Hosting environment.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Server, JBoss Operations Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning, Oracle RAC, PeopleSoft Financials
Benefits: Union Pacific has increased its ability to scale for business growth with more capable system management and development tools for its virtualized environment, and has increased its system performance at a significantly lower cost structure
2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Superior Alternatives
Company: Citigroup
Industry: Financial services
Geography: Global
Business Challenge: Reconciling two independently developed and supported Linux platforms to run mission-critical applications for Citi's globally distributed business units
Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux was chosen to be the standard Linux distribution across both x86 servers and the IBM System z mainframe platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers, IBM System z mainframes
Benefits: By delivering a common global Linux build across the enterprise that can be leveraged across both x86 and IBM mainframe platforms, Citi has been able to retire a number of one-off infrastructure software products and their associated costs.
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.”
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
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)
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
Organization migrates from Novell SUSE Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for performance, scalability, security and ease of use
Kuwait City- 24 April, 2010 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Ministry of Electricity & Water (MEW) in Kuwait plans to migrate its datacenter infrastructure from Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. MEW has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the basis for its long-term IT strategy based on the platform's ease of use, performance, scalability and security, and plans to run its mission-critical systems on the platform.
MEW serves more than 800,000 consumers with a 12 gigawatt power generation grid. Its decision to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux comes as MEW aligns its strategic IT infrastructure to meet Kuwait's need for increased power capacity. One of the key drivers for the migration is to lower MEW's total cost of ownership. Red Hat provides a cost-effective infrastructure that enables the company to meet service level agreements and keep its growing customer base satisfied. MEW plans to migrate its mission-critical systems for its Automated Meter Infrastructure and Geographic Information System, in addition to applications responsible for human resources, business intelligence and customer relationship management.
"Adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a technology platform offers MEW the opportunity to solidify our business continuity," said Ali AlWazzan, undersecretary for Information Technology at MEW. "With Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we're offered a valuable subscription model, a robust certified ecosystem and high-performance technology to fit our business needs. With a strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux base, we will additionally be able to investigate future plans to utilize virtualization and cloud computing technologies in our IT infrastructure."
“Red Hat's ability to offer MEW a heterogeneous IT infrastructure means that we have been able to provide the organization with a reliable and scalable platform to support its current and future business demands,” said Anuj Kumar, general manager for Middle East and Africa at Red Hat. “We are delighted to have MEW as a customer and look forward to building a long-term partnership with them.”
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2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Optimized Systems
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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
Japanese Communications Provider Launches New Cloud Service Offering and Joins Red Hat's Premier Certified Cloud Provider Program
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced another endorsement of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a foundational technology for clouds. NTT Communications (NTT Com) in Japan has built its new cloud computing and hosting service offering, BizHosting Basic, on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and has become a Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider. In addition, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be offered as a guest operating system for the new NTT Com service.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization was delivered to the market in November 2009 and has since been adopted by a number of global technology leaders, including IBM and NTT Com, as the technology base for their enterprise cloud offerings. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, designed for the demands of the cloud, aims to create a secure, scalable environment for sharing resources among multiple users and organizations and for managing them simply and flexibly.
NTT Com, an original Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization beta customer, worked with Red Hat during the development of the KVM-based virtualization platform. The companies continue this collaboration today with NTT Com's selection of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform for its pioneering commercial cloud service.
“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides the high availability, reliability, security and scalability that we desired for the foundation of our new cloud offering,” said Masato Minamisawa, executive manager of IP Technology Department, Business Network Services Division at NTT Communications. “We believe that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is the efficient virtualization technology to run the workloads that our enterprise customers will deploy on our cloud service today.”
“Every cloud needs a secure, scalable and robust foundational virtualization layer, and we believe that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers these benefits for cloud environments today,” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. “NTT Com's selection of our virtualization platform for its innovative new cloud service further establishes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a compelling, enterprise-ready virtualization and cloud solution. We're also excited to expand our Premier Certified Cloud Provider Program today with the addition of NTT as a new cloud partner.”
NTT Com's new cloud offering is available today. For more information, visit www.ntt.com/saas/biz-hosting-basic/.
For more information about Red Hat and cloud computing, visit www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud.
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
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
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
Company: Supercomputing Centre of Castile and León (FCSC)
Industry: Government Services
Geography: Spain
Business Challenge: To build a new hardware and software infrastructure for the Supercomputing Centre of Castile and León (FCSC)
Solution: FCSC developed a supercomputing infrastructure based on a combination of Red Hat and HP solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HPC
“Choosing a Linux-based solution was a priority for us. Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a reliable, efficient, and robust solution, and therefore represents the most suitable and cost-effective option for high-performance environments such as our supercomputing centre and intensive calculation clusters.”
-- Antonio Ruiz Falcó, technical director at FCSC
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
"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.
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.”
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."
Mobile open source foundation uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux for cloud-based developer platform
RALEIGH, N.C. – March 15, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Symbian Foundation, a global non-profit organization formed to foster an open source community around its mobile device software, has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide a scalable, high-performance base for its private, cloud-based developer website and server.
The Symbian Foundation needed a reliable, cost-effective open source solution. It uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating system for its developer site developer.symbian.org, which acts as a single point of entry for users to access code, wikis, developer training and support. Red Hat also runs most of Symbian’s servers, which have been licensed through IBM Services.
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.”
Italian Bank Selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to Increase the Performance and Reliability of its IT Infrastructure
Milan, Italy – March 11, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that FinecoBank, a specialist in online banking and financial services, has selected Red Hat solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, to further improve the efficiency of its web applications and to streamline the provisioning and management of its systems.
With more than 878,000 customers and €30 billion in collections, FinecoBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services and offering efficient, secure, transparent and high-quality banking solutions. The growing needs of FinecoBank’s customers have led to a steady increase in the number and complexity of daily transactions. The bank has chosen Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware to extend its technology platform and effectively address its growing demand.
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.
Business Challenge: Create a new client interface for a real-time transaction risk information system of the leading European clearing house, Eurex Clearing, based on open standards
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging with AMQP
Benefits: End customers, mainly banks, get immediate access to valuable risk management data directly from Eurex Clearing’s back-end systems without the need of customised adaptors. Deutsche Börse Systems can now focus on key operational tasks, leaving ongoing support of the AMQP-based messaging system to Red Hat.
“We decided to implement Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging with AMQP because we favour open standards and we want to make it as easy as possible for our client banks to access the relevant risk data. Using the open standard AMQP helps to avoid complex and time-consuming development of customized adaptors and gives customers freedom of choice for vendor selection.”
– Gerhard Lessmann, member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Börse Systems
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
Customer: Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PG Telco)
Red Hat Partner: Zmanda
Industry: Telecommunications (PG Telco); Backup and Archival Software (Zmanda)
Geography: Prairie Grove, Arkansas (PG Telco); Sunnyvale, CA (Zmanda)
Business Challenge: Regional rural telecom company needed an enterprise-class backup and recovery system to ensure business continuity, and a reliable and scalable operating system that would prevent the servers from crashing
Software: Amanda Enterprise 3.0 open source backup and recovery solution from Zmanda; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Migration path: CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Zmanda’s Amanda Enterprise ensures that PG Telco data is regularly backed up and archived; the rock-solid reliability, stability, and enterprise-class support for the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system ensures that servers running Amanda as well as other mission-critical applications are always available
Moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made the biggest difference in our ability to keep our servers up and available. There’s nothing wrong with running CentOS at home. But for business? No. We need the enterprise support. From now on, everything will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-Scott Griffin, systems engineer, PG Telco
Industry: 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
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
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.
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
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
“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
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.”
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.
Industry: Healthcare: Prescription Drug Administrator
At a Glance: Datacenter transformation using HP Integrity server blades and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for databases; evaluation, prescription administration and analysis system
Objective: Establish a flexible, adaptable infrastructure that can continue operating while handling the exponential growth in the volume of information administered and accommodating the most dynamic business conditions. Maintain system availability in real time during all types of working situations. Increase redundancy and business continuity.
Solution: The core architecture of the Farmalink system is made up of mission-critical HP Integrity server blades with Intel processors running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform connected to an HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4000).
Hardware: 4 HP Integrity BL860c server blades, HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array, 3 HP ProLiant server blades
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle 10g Database
“HP Integrity BL860c server blades with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle allow us to offer highly reliable services in real time.”
− Pablo Giraud, Systems Manager, Farmalink
One of the largest municipal electric distribution utility in Canada deploys JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to eliminate proprietary lock-In and cut costs
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Customer: Toronto Hydro Corporation
JBoss Advanced Business Partner: Int3s Corp.
Industry: Utilities: Electric Power
Geography: Toronto, Canada
Business Challenge: To build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foundation for future-looking strategic initiatives designed to support enablement of smart metering and smart grid integration, reduce operational costs, promote energy conservation, and improve IT productivity
Solution: Deployed JBoss Enterprise SOA and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for innovative Smart Meter program and has successfully completed the initial phases of its program to create a customer-focused cost and energy-saving initiative
Software: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (including JBoss ESB), Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Leveraging Int3s expertise in SOA and Red Hat / JBoss open source Enterprise Framework, Toronto Hydro was able to successfully complete the initial phases of its groundbreaking Smart Meter program and plan other customer-focused cost- and energy-saving initiatives going forward.
“Toronto Hydro’s technology strategy required experienced resources to supplement internal staff in delivering complex custom development projects. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a comprehensive toolset that comes with everything we need to build a solid SOA for facilitating easy integration of disparate systems and data. It was the perfect solution to meet our current needs – and we trust Red Hat to meet our future ones.”
– Nicholas Yee, Chief Technology Officer, Int3s
Business 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.
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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Dubai, U.A.E. - – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Emirates Group IT, operating under the brand name Mercator, a global provider of business technology solutions, delivering business transformation, process improvement and return on investment to more than 100 customers in over five continents, has standardized its IT operations on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware after a three month pilot program..
In an effort to simplify its datacenter and reduce the total cost of operations for web server technologies, the Emirates Group migrated approximately 80% of its comparable servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat's middleware solution portfolio offers a certified and supported platform for other open source technologies, a critical factor for the Emirates Group when deciding to standardise on open source technologies.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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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Business Challenge: Replacing an 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 SPARC to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon Processor-based Dell servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Banner (student administration application by Sungard Higher Education)
Hardware: 4 x Dell 2850 servers with Intel Xeon processors
Benefits: Reduced annual maintenance fees, realized cost savings of 75 percent related to hardware, increased application performance, improved security, stability, and reliability
IBM Business Partner: Mainline Information Systems, Red Hat
Business Challenge:
Needing to grow its organization to keep pace with its student body, TCC sought to update its aging IT infrastructure. Its existing environment included an IBM zSeries® 890 mainframe, a storage area network (SAN) with 1TB of capacity and a Novell network. The college wanted to boost its technology with reliable, flexible and scalable hardware that featured additional storage capacity to support new initiatives.
Solution: With help from IBM and IBM Business Partner Mainline Information Systems, TCC migrated its applications from its mainframe to an IBM System x™ platform featuring one IBM System x3950 server that hosts the production environment and runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system and one System x3950 server that hosts a test environment.
Benefits: Achieves roughly US$250,000 per year in savings by growing its SAN, enabling the college to reallocate the funds to its operating budget. Enables the client to tackle new initiatives with greater flexibility and storage capacity. Supports all of the college’s different enterprise applications and enables it to provide students and faculty with larger storage accounts for e-mail and personalized Web portals
Business need: Heavy traffic on Brisbane's motorways was creating congestion, lengthening journey times for motorists and reducing travel reliability for local businesses. Toll plazas added to the problem, creating a choke point for motorists slowing to pay tolls. The Queensland Government, in conjunction with Queensland Motorways, which manages and operates the Gateway Bridge, Gateway Extension and Logan Motorways, decided to embark on a major upgrade project to enable traffic to flow more freely.
Solution:To support the Gateway Upgrade Project, Queensland Motorways wanted to implement free-flow tolling on its motorways. IBM Global Business Services was contracted to design, build, test, and deploy the intelligent free-flow tolling central system solution based on technology from IBM, SAP, Dacolian, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The SAP applications, identification, rating and interoperability applications, Internet Web portal and Oracle databases run on an IBM Power 570 server with 16 IBM POWER6 4.7GHz processors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used as the operating system for the entire environment.
Software: Business Integration, Energy Efficiency, Enterprise Resource Planning, IT/infrastructure, Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Service Oriented Architecture, Smarter Planet, Transforming IT, SAP
Hardware: BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS21, Storage: DS8000, System p: Power 570.
Benefits:
The solution allows Queensland Motorways to combine its knowledge of commuters' travel patterns with real-time data on traffic conditions to recommend fastest routes and avoid congestion. This helps to speed journeys, reduce congestion, and cut exhaust emissions. Drivers no longer have to stop to pay tolls, which reduces congestion, increases safety and enhances network reliability.
The Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation of Peru Implemented Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Achieve Greater Scalability, Security and Productivity
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Company: Ministerio de Vivienda: Peru's Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation
Industry: Government
Partner: Software Libre Andino
Geography: Peru
Business Challenge: Needed to replace the existing client/server e-mail and collaboration platform to achieve improved scalability, security, productivity, and to reduce costs
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Alfresco Zimlet, Red Hat Consulting
Migration Path: From a client/server system running on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, a Web-based email technology, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and utilizing Alfresco Zimlet
Benefits: Improved communication and collaboration among users and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased access to e-mail, agendas, and documents independently from physical equipment; reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
"The high level of know-how and expertise of Red Hat’s consultants, coupled with Red Hat’s local presence, were decisive in making the decision to secure consulting rather than performing these tasks internally."
-- Jaime Honores Coronado, managing director of the General Department of Statistics and Information Systems, Ministerio de Vivienda.
Company:Brazil Federal Supreme Tribunal's Information and Technology Office (STF)
Industry: Government
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Needed a service-oriented architecture that improved Brazil's Federal Supreme Tribunal's (STF) system integration process and the database and deployment governance in the STI (Technology Information of Office Secretary)
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Operations Network, JBoss SOA Platform, JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules, and Hibernate
Hardware: x86 commodity servers with Intel Xeon-Based Processors
Benefits: Reduced costs and increased agility, functionality, and flexibility with a combination of Red Hat and JBoss solutions
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics
MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Improved reliability and scalability, cut costs, and delivered new financial services and products to market faster
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: 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
Australian Insurance Company Saves $500,000 by Migrating from Windows and WebSphere to Red Hat Platform and JBoss Middleware Solutions, Gains Increased Flexibility, Scalability and Freedom
COMPANY:Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz)
CATEGORY: Carved Out Costs
INDUSTRY: Insurance
GEOGRAPHY: Australia
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Rebuild Allianz's IT infrastructure based on a flexible and scalable platform that could leverage new virtualisation technology to generate hardware and support savings, and reduce its underlying software and operations costs for several strategic business application projects
MIGRATION PATH: Windows and Intel-based infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 mainframe and from Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware on Intel processor based HP ProLiant servers.
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting
HARDWARE: IBM System z10 mainframe, HP ProLiant servers
BENEFITS: Significant reduction in middleware software and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in
COMPANIES: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Rivet Logic
CATEGORY: Optimized Systems
INDUSTRY: Publishing
GEOGRAPHY: Cambridge, Massachusetts
BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The HBP's ability to get new products to market and the quality of the customer experience at its e-commerce site were hindered by a proprietary operating system, a difficult-to-use legacy content management system (CMS), and inflexible customer-facing Web applications, which were negatively impacting the HBP's revenues and limiting growth
MIGRATION PATH: From a proprietary operating system running a proprietary legacy CMS application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running the Alfresco Content Management System
SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Frameworks including JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, jBPM, Oracle Database, and Alfresco's open source Content Management System
Business Challenge: To migrate from a cost-inhibitive proprietary UNIX platform to a Linux alternative in order to reduce costs and increase performance, reliability, scalability, and agility of the systems on which its critical trading platforms handle billions of derivatives trades per year, worth more than a quadrillion in notional value
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Training
Hardware: 4,000 x86 quad-core servers
Migration Path: Sun Solaris on SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86-based servers
Benefits: Achieved reduced latency, expanded flexibility, heightened performance, ease of migration and management, and increased scalability while providing cost savings for the systems responsible for processing CME Group's millions of daily transactions
"Our technology partnership with Red Hat is key to us staying competitive in the market. We look to Red Hat for technology leadership through updates and support that help us to improve our tuning so that we can give our customers the best possible experience."
--Joe Panfil, managing director of Enterprise Technology Services at CME Group.
Companies: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Zimbra
Industry: Higher education; technology (software)
Geography: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sunnyvale, California
Business Challenge: The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee needed to replace an aging email system with a new platform that would provide innovative collaboration solutions to their 50,000 accounts
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Zimbra Collaboration Suite
Benefits: Reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as primary campus operating system; By migrating the existing email system to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, UWM improved communication and collaboration among students, faculty and staff and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased focus on student retention by providing tools to manage their academic and personal schedules and stay connected with faculty.
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the most requested OS today, primarily due to its stability and performance. It was the obvious choice as the primary deployment platform for Zimbra."
—Ramesh May, Senior Manager, Marketing and Products, Zimbra
"When evaluating integrated email and calendar solutions, we focused on the total cost of ownership—that is, the lifetime cost, not just the purchase cost—of the applications. Zimbra running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux emerged as the clear consensus choice." —Bruce Maas, chief information officer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Business Challenge: Reengineering the datacenter infrastructure with a cost-effective and scalable platform that provided mission-critical reliability and superior performance to accommodate fast-paced business expansion
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DB
Hardware: 600 Intel Xeon Processor-based x86-based physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers
Migration Path: From UNIX systems, including Sun Solaris, running on proprietary RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers
Benefits: Reduced IT operating costs down to two cents per transaction which has the potential to save millions over the life of the systems, provided the ability to scale for business growth, and reegineered datacenter without unscheduled business interruptions
“In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has rock-solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels.” – Thomas McGinnis, platform engineer, PNC (formerly National City Corporation)
Business Challenge:Provide support for complex analytical simulations: address customer requirements for more advanced CAE technologies, investigate emerging processor technologies, increase productivity
Solution: Deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and selected AMD Opteron™ processors, which are scalable up to 8-processors/32-cores and widely employed in the CAE
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ANSYS, Fluent and other CAE software solutions from ANSYS, Inc.
Benefits: The server runs continuously and stably under high loads. Found a highly manageable way of leveraging the power of the new server, like a cluster in a single box. Achieved a significant reduction in power consumption, making it possible to add additional servers. Provides customers with simulation results more rapidly, addresses customer challenges more flexibly, contributes to higher IT ROI
Overview: US-based ANSYS Inc. has taken a global leadership role in the field of CAE software, an integral and indispensable part of many manufacturing processes. ANSYS Japan K.K., the Japanese arm of ANSYS Inc., has deployed the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to keep pace with customer demand for complex engineering simulations. The company appreciates the benefits of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including its stability under high loads and significantly reduced power consumption.
Business Challenge: Needed a solution to enable them to proactively monitor, track and respond in terms of bed usage and associated resources
Migration Path: Paper-based system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Red Hat Alliance Partner: Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM PowerSeries 2 P6-570 virutalized server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Bed management solution improved bed turnaround, and thus staff productivity; real-time information enables staff to provide improved patient care
"Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, together with Y3, offered a unique solution that met our needs and exceeded our expectations."
-- Fong Yong Choi, MIS manager at MAH
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
"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
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal
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Industry: Publishing
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To replace inefficient, incumbent systems with a reliable and affordable standardised system
Migration Path: A number of different platforms, including Tomcat, to one standardised platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Hardware: x86 commodity hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including JBoss Hibernate
“We are more than happy with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. Our 60-strong development team are happy with the implementation and the operation teams understand it, laying strong foundations for the future."
-- Peter Hanlon, chief technical architect, Trader Media Group
Industry: Transportation: Managed logistics services for the chemicals and process industries
Geography: Headquartered in Danbury, Connecticut with international offices in North America and Europe
Business Challenge: Needed to cost-effectively scale its infrastructure to meet exponential growth in the business
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle Database, Oracle ProC
Hardware: 33 multi-core Intel® Xeon® based IBM xSeries servers
Migration Path: HP-UX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and multicore Intel Xeon processor based servers
Benefits: Ability to add transaction processing and storage capacity quickly and cost-effectively as business continues to expand. Ensures uptime and reliability to customers relying on Odyssey Logistics & Technology to run mission-critical supply chain operations
“Migrating to Linux was synonymous with migrating to Red Hat. Because of its rigorous quality control, Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based servers is truly a rock-solid platform. Its reliability continues to impress us daily,” said Massey. “And we increasingly think of Red Hat as a partner, not a vendor. We absolutely trust Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Intel with our most mission-critical systems.”
-- Brad Massey, director, IT Support Services, Odyssey Logistics & Technology
SOA allows the Defense Information Systems Agency to better support the joint warfighter in times of war and peace.
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Industry: Government
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Fusion of information, logistics, engineering, planning and transportation technologies to enable military mobility and versatility
Software: MetaMatrix Enterprise Data Services Platform
Benefits: Ability to use legacy systems in DISA's Net-Centric environment, increased security of information shared across agencies and task forces, enabled America's troops to be more mobile and versatile, in any location, at any time
Business Challenge: Ensuring security and payment card industry compliance while managing system level access across the enterprise
Migration Path: UNIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Likewise Enterprise
Hardware: 1,500 Intel-based IBM blade servers
Benefits: Savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on reduced administrative and hardware costs associated with compliance and security requirements. Compliance with PCI and SOX requirements through automatic authentication of users across a mixed systems environment.
“The ROI [return on investment] of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is up to several hundred thousand dollars annually once you add all of the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs associated with manually auditing the systems. Likewise Enterprise's compliance enhancements allowed us to control user access and permissions, thus enabling us to grow our Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.”
-- Jeff Arcuri, senior manager, IT for GAP Inc. Direct
Red Hat provides the University of Southern Mississippi with time-saving solution
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Customer: University of Southern Mississippi
Industry: Education
Geography: North America
Business Challenge: Reconfiguring servers that were not based on the same hardware platform lead to an increase in errors and demanded much of the IT team's time and financial resources
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite
Benefits: Streamlined the university's IT environment and standardized the systems management process, reduced overhead, minimized errors, and saved time and financial resources
“We transitioned to Red Hat solutions very easily. It was just flipping a switch. It was easy."
-- James Daniel, system administrator at the University of Southern Mississippi
Spanish Employment Portal Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for key architecture deployment
Raleigh, NC– June 30, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoJobs.net, one of the leading employment websites in Spain, has migrated its critical web business platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with the help of Essi Projects, a Red Hat Premier Business Partner.
Infojobs.net now fully leverages JBoss Application Platform 4.2.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its application servers, indexing subsystem and database servers. Established ten years ago, InfoJobs.net runs a high-traffic web portal and has experienced significant growth. More than 5,500 users register their curriculum vitae through the InfoJobs.net web portal each day. With over 100,000 employment vacancies listed, Infojobs.net must meet the high-volume demand required by its users. Because of Red Hat's significant value and fast run-times the IT department at InfoJobs.net migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all its environments and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for its web and satellite servers.
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
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.
Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers
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Company: YPF SA
Industry: Oil and Gas
Geography: Argentina
Business Challenge: Renovate proprietary infrastructure with the goal of reducing costs and boosting performance with open source solutions
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 10g DB, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x 346, 366, 3650, 3850 servers
Migration Path: From SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x servers
Benefits: Reduced capital and operational costs, boosted performance and efficiency of administrators, increased internal customer satisfaction by reducing implementation time, increased scalability and agility, and expanded flexibility
“Now, more than 80 percent of our Oracle databases and 90 percent of our SAP applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based servers and is the choice for our SAP and Oracle implementations."
--Adriana Marisa Vázquez, responsible for the UNIX administration group at YPF.
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun SPARC to IBM System x
Business Need: When end-of-life issues on the company’s existing Sun hardware began impacting the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Aviza sought a cost-effective systems solution from IBM.
Solution: Aviza implemented a two-tier Oracle configuration, with Oracle EBS v11.5.10 on one IBM System x3850 4-socket server and Oracle Database 10g on one IBM System x3950 16-socket server—both running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM System Storage N5200 provides 2.4 TB of data storage. The development environment has six test instances running on five x3850 servers, with a second N5200 providing 7.2 TB of data storage.
Benefits: Aviza Technology achieved a multifold increase in solution performance, enabled new levels of systems scalability and flexibility across the company's global IT infrastructure, and better positioned the company to meet unforeseen IT system challenges.
Geography: Offices in Spain, France, and Portugal with customers in more than one hundred countries
Business Challenge: Unifying Linux distributions and offering customers a reliable, certified, and supported platform
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM System x 3250 and 3550 servers
Benefits: Improved quality and reliability of the company's Internet services, reduced the complexity of its IT system, and simplified its IT maintenance process
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Lower costs and increased sales with a comprehensive call center solution
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Customer: PRO BTP
Industry: Insurance
Deployment Country: France
Solution: Unified Communications and Collaboration
Business Partner: IBM
Business Need: PRO BTP needed to improve the quality of its call answering service to better serve its members. It also wanted to find a solution that would reduce its communication costs.
Solution: PRO BTP engaged IBM Global Business Services and IBM Global Technology Services to provide a comprehensive call center solution, unifying call answering among the company’s three call centers. The IBM team evaluated all the alternatives then selected an Avaya Internet Protocol (IP) infrastructure using Text over IP (ToIP) and Voice over IP (VoIP).
The solution runs on a reliable, scalable IBM BladeCenter HS20 platform, housed in IBM BladeCenter (Chassis) and running the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Benefits: The company has enjoyed dramatically improved call answering service with 90% of 5,500,000 annual calls answered in three rings or less, and lower telecommunications costs in a secure solution, with automatic backup if one site fails.
Solution: Information Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Server Consolidation, Virtualization
Business Partner: IBM
Business Need: Sentry’s core infrastructure required substantial computing power and high-speed storage. Four difficult-to-administer racks of large servers supported the company’s day-to-day business processes, costing much energy, effort and money to run. Sentry wanted to accommodate its growing business while simplifying the design and administration of its underlying IT infrastructure.
Solution: Sentry began by consolidating on an IBM BladeCenter® H chassis that supports 14 IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new solution greatly simplifies system administration by enabling the company to access and manage all hardware remotely from a single console. All cabling is integrated within the BladeCenter technology, reducing the amount of wires previously needed for power and remote access.
Benefits:
Reduces operating costs and offers remote administration
Increases storage capacity and performance
Reduces server footprint and amount of cabling
“Besides consolidating our servers, we reduced our cabling significantly. Out of the box, the IBM BladeCenter required just a few uplinks—power, Ethernet and fiber channel—and immediately all 14 servers were connected.”
-- Sentry Data Systems
Business Need: The City of Burbank needed to bring its multi-vendor infrastructure onto a scalable platform that supports multiple operating systems.
Solution: The City consolidated on IBM BladeCenter® and IBM System Storage™ DS4300 while migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
Benefits: As a result of the implementation, the City achieved better performance, significant space savings, and reduced costs for hardware, power, cooling, maintenance, monitoring and licensing.
"We’re running the complete Oracle ERP solution--the application and the database--all on one BladeCenter with four-processor blades." That solution includes Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database 10g, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "It’s easier to maintain, from an administrative perspective, and it’s less costly because we are licensing for only one production server."
-- Mahesh Saraswat, Lead Database Administrator, City of Burbank
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Company: Sensei, Inc.
Industry: Healthcare
Geography: US
Software: JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks including; JBoss Enterprise Application Platforms, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss ESB, jBPM, Hibernate, Cache and RichFaces; all components of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and JBoss Enterprise Portal Platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Pentaho Business Intelligence, MySQL, and Alfresco.
Migration Path: Open source middleware projects from JBoss.org to JBoss Enterprise Middleware Solutions and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Benefits: Lowered infrastructure and development costs; more flexibility when deploying applications; greater scalability; enhanced standards and support.
"With a proprietary solution, trying to grow our product line would be painful, both in terms of man-hours and integrating additional software. But with the cost-effectiveness of JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we are able to reallocate resources to scale our I.T. infrastructure.”
-Tim Dion, Chief Information Officer, Sensei Inc.
Business Challenge: Support the rapidly growing e-commerce side of the business while keeping costs contained and complying with strict PCI security standards
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, Apache, WebLogic, IBM Lotus Domino Server, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: 50 Dell x86 servers
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Provided an easily managed, secure, and utterly reliable platform for Discount Tire’s e-commerce business. Enabled compliance with PCI security standards. Increased IT staff productivity and contained costs due to the ability to easily provision, maintain, and manage servers.
“I’ve been in the IT industry for about 20 years now, and Red Hat is far and above any other company I’ve ever worked with. Not only are its products of the highest caliber, but it is incredibly responsive to all our needs. Red Hat support is top-of-the-line, and the Red Hat phone number is on my phone’s speed dial, and it is going to stay there.”
-- Will Darton, senior server support administrator, Discount Tire.
Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that will position ETS for evolution into cloud models.
Migration Path: Vertically scalable platform to commodity software and hardware platform and proprietary application server technology to Open source technology
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat Consulting
Hardware: Intel x86 systems
Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable, secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.
With Red Hat products, ETS achieves the following benefits (metrics are based on the current server-hardware and OS support service cost at ETS:
Cost savings (approximately 40 percent)
Improved efficiency (approximately 30 percent)
Improved technology management and standardization
Improved leverage of development resources
Better positioned for adoption of cloud computing and virtualization technologies
“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription were the obvious choice at that time.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS
Business Challenge: To develop and deploy functionally rich Web applications using a standards-based platform supported by a single vendor for both home office and field use
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Migration Path: HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Benefits: Improve time to market of mission-critical applications. Increase staff productivity and efficiency using JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Higher-quality applications.
“JBoss has been a great fit for solving our primary business and technical challenges. We’ve accelerated the process of getting developers trained and up to speed. We’ve managed to get our arms around a vast set of web technologies by limiting our scope while providing our business users with the applications they need to be successful.”
-Alan Flowers, manager of the Java-Web-Integration Services team at Sherwin-Williams
BBP develops financial messaging applications that are offered to financial institutions on an in-house or service bureau basis for SWIFT, SIC, and other financial networks. BBP guarantees continuous interbank connection availability and 24x7 access to its IGTplus middleware. Given the sensitivity of the application and the underlying data, BBP required an application infrastructure that could meet its stringent requirements for security and availability. BBP chose Red Hat and Ingres technologies due to comprehensive functionality provided by the individual products as well as the fact that the products were pre-integrated, fully certified, tested, and tuned for performance.
This solution was also chosen because both Ingres and Red Hat are well known for providing 24x7 support and maintenance to enterprises around the world. Cost was an important factor as well. Deployed since 2003, the application provides software and services to hundreds of banks throughout Europe as well as other countries including the United States.
Rivet Logic Helps New Gravity Venture Deploy the Application on Alfresco, JBoss, Ingres, and Red Hat
SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS
As Facebook seeks to expand beyond purely social networking, New Gravity Ventures enters the market with ConnectedWeddings.com, a Facebook application that offers an innovative and easier way to plan weddings. The new application enables couples anywhere to use Facebook, an iPhone or the Web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding page-all for free.
The two most important criteria for the Facebook application were scalability and the ability to derive optimal value from the content and present it to consumers in unique ways. New Gravity Ventures also required a solution that would empower end-users with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the application's social networking capability.
Rivet Logic chose Alfresco as the content management platform for ConnectedWeddings.com because of its ability to support content-rich applications. Rivet Logic deployed a solution based on an open source infrastructure stack that included the Alfresco content management platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Optimizing IT, Supply Chain Management
Business Partner: IBM, SAP, EGT InformationsSysteme
Business Need:
Kliniken des Landkreises Lörrach, a hospital with 1,400 staff and an annual budget of around €100 million, wanted to improve both business and clinical efficiency. Users found that SAP applications were slow to respond to their requests, as the underlying database had reached its performance limit. The system could not be extended or developed, and the database had to be taken offline for maintenance.
Solution:
The hospital implemented the latest SAP applications and selected IBM DB2 running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the IBM BladeCenter platform. It also chose IBM System Storage and IBM System x hardware to support a new storage area network for clinical imaging.
Benefits:
SAP application and database response times have been cut by more than 30 per cent, and users gain rapid, reliable access to critical business data. Database maintenance can be completed online, avoiding interruptions, and a clustering solution ensures system reliability. The new SAN offers scalable storage up to 112TB, a tenfold increase in current capacity.
“Our 32-bit operating system was limited to 4GB of main memory, which was limiting our ability to improve performance. Running 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM blade servers immediately allowed us to increase system RAM to 16GB, and this alone produced significant improvements in performance.”
-Dieter Reichl, Head of Business Technology
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
Business Challenge: Create new revenue streams by responding to customer demands for treasury and financial management software available as a service 24/7. Cut costs and improve reliability and scalability of internal systems. Ensure market competitiveness by reducing the infrastructure investment required by customers.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Oracle DB
Hardware: Intel® Xeon® based x86 servers
Migration-Path: Solaris on SPARC Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon based servers
Benefits: Created new revenue opportunities and maintained its industry leadership position; Cut costs and boosted operational efficiencies and system reliability
“Our clients see that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is reliable. They are completely comfortable knowing that they can run their largest, most critical systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and that they’ll get enterprise-class support.”
– Mark Tirschwell, chief technology officer, Wall Street Systems
Armonk, NY, and Raleigh, NC. 22 April 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Handelsbanken, one of the four largest banks in the Nordic Area, has achieved strong business continuity, security and cost-efficiency results by deploying virtualization technology using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z servers and IBM System z operating system, z/OS. The bank’s newly deployed technology solution will help maintain a highly resilient and secure network that scales based on business demands.
Company: North American Non-profit Medical Research Organization; Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner
Industry: Healthcare: Biomedical Research and science education
Geography: US
Business Challenge: Aggregate critical information, reduce operational costs, and increase performance to internal and external users, and increase availability of research to a wider audience, through the use of a foundational portal platform.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (32-cpu), JBoss Rules (32-cpu), JBoss jBPM (32-cpu), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Alfresco ECM, Alfresco WCM
Benefits: The Red Hat and Vizuri partnership helped a non-profit medical research organization complete a side-by-side evaluation and selection process that compared the solution benefits of open source software to proprietary software. Through customer experiences, JBoss and Vizuri were able to outline to the customer that the cost savings provided by the selecting an open source solution would allow the customer to leverage Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.
Experiences heightened flexibility, stability, cost savings and ease of management with Red Hat solutions
RALEIGH, NC – 3 December 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Scania, the leading Swedish manufacturer of heavy trucks and buses, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated server and storage virtualisation capabilities. The company utilises the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform for its critical systems, including specific infrastructure services, databases, applications and high-performance computing (HPC) servers to leverage the solution’s compelling benefits, including cost savings, stability, flexibility and ease of management.
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
Challenge: Needed a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective solution to monitor project budgets and ensure timely data reports for use by the KSH Holdings management team
Migration Path: Paper-based reporting system to a Progress Claims System (PCS) running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, PHP, and Apache
Hardware: Dell 2850 with 2 GB RAM and 1 x Processor
Benefits: Developed a scalable Progress Claims System (PCS) that offered access to real-time financial data, reduced manual input errors, and enabled expedited reimbursement processes for subcontractors
“We handle a lot of data input on a daily basis and require something stable and capable of handling the load. That’s why we chose Red Hat.”
-Tony Tang, Chief Financial Officer of KSH Holdings.
Geography: Cork, Ireland
Business Challenge: Simplify the deployment of ServusNet Informatics’ Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution at remote customer sites using Tapasol’s provisioning engine based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Migration Path: Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with built-in virtualization, JBoss Application Server, Liferay Portal, Oracle DB
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Increased deployment speed of ServusNet Informatics' Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution; reduced costs of implementing virtualization technology; continuing enhancement to the productivity of developers working on leading-edge Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based software products
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization capabilities was easy and more cost-effective to implement than other solutions on the market. We reduced the effort it took to provision a server by 92 percent. As the engine underlying both our and Tapasol’s solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is making a significant contribution to our ability to offer a competitive product.””
-Sean Condon, Director of Product Development, ServusNet Informatics
Company: AutoTrader.com
Industry: Automotive information and sales
Geography: Atlanta
Business Challenge: Rock-solid support needed to move to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and off-the-shelf applications
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Benefits: Smooth migration to a new IT infrastructure. Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical expertise. Improved productivity of internal IT support staff.
“Any company that has anything important running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux would benefit from a TAM. Even in times like these, when additional expenditures are difficult to justify, the TAM service is worth every penny. It more than pays for itself in the time it saves and the competitive edge it provides."
–Mark Juliano, UNIX Systems Manager, AutoTrader.com
Australian University Carves out Costs and Improves Stability with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that CQUniversity, an Australian university with ten campuses and more than 21,00 students and staff, has migrated its critical IT systems to Red Hat solutions. CQUniversity implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite and has since realized significant cost savings, increased performance, ease of management and reliable, ongoing support.
CQUniversity offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses on-campus and through distance education. The University relies heavily on the reliability and stability of its IT environment on a daily basis. Its technology powers critical finance, human resources and student-administration systems. With campuses and students located across various time zones, CQUniversity requires an infrastructure that supports standard operation at all hours of the day.
Business Challenge: Facilitate use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux to deliver mission-critical electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware designs to market
Solution: Subscribe to Red Hat’s Technical Account Management (TAM) service, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Immediate response to questions and issues regarding Red Hat solutions. Direct access to senior Red Hat technical staff. Increased return on investment (ROI) of deploying Red Hat solutions. Improved time-to-market.
“For any company that needs an additional level of support above the standard offering, Red Hat’s TAM service is the answer. In addition to providing us with a great opportunity to build a deeper relationship with Red Hat, it enables us to leverage Red Hat products for greater competitive advantage."
–Laurent Rochette, alliance manager, independent software vendors (ISVs), Mentor Graphics
Business Challenge: Reduce costs and time-to-market of new interactive products by moving to a virtualized environment based on x86 machines and open source Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite
Hardware: Commodity Dell and IBM x86 systems
Benefits: Cut capital as well as ongoing operational infrastructure costs, and boost competitiveness by flexibly bringing new products to market more quickly
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
Company: CQUniversity Australia (Central Queensland University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: Australia
Opportunity: To migrate from an HP Tru64 Unix environment to a cost-effective and performance-boosting platform within Central Queensland University’s budget
Migration Path: HP Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Satellite Server on HP 7000c Blade and BL460c Blade Servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Oracle 10g RAC, PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications (Finance & Student Administration), Talent2 Works (HR)
Hardware: HP 7000c Blade System and BL460c Blade Servers
Benefits: Experienced increased cost savings, performance, ease of management, and reliable ongoing support
“Red Hat has always been known as a leader in reliability and performance, and we’re pleased to see that recognition reflected in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 adoption in cutting-edge environments like Blackboard,” said Brian Stevens, CTO, Red Hat.
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
Geography: India
Challenge: To transform existing legacy infrastructure into a future-ready solution, while protecting existing investments, and giving the group the foundation to accelerate cost effectively
Migration Path: Novell Netware 3.12 OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with Oracle 10g Database
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 1900, 2800 and 2900 Server series, 64-bit Intel Xeon processors
Benefits: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has given Indian Express a highly available, secure, and reliable platform with freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to scale cost-effectively without subsequent investments in hardware.
Challenge: Searched for a replacement for proprietary software for its IBM mainframe servers that could provide greater flexibility, manageability, and utilization opportunities
Migration Path: HPUX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: IBM System z mainframe servers
Benefits: Experienced cost savings, boosted performance, stable and reliable management, consolidation, and valuable technical support after migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z
“Since we were already leaning toward Red Hat in our distributed environment, choosing Red Hat on the mainframe coincided perfectly with our desire to have one corporate standard for Linux.”
-- Kevin Masaryk, senior Linux/Unix administrator at SRP
Challenge: Build a service oriented architecture (SOA) solution for a government client that could be leveraged and reused for other client engagements
Migration Path: Transitioned a custom coded, proprietary-based solution to a a hybrid COTS/GOTS/Open-Source application that leveraged a significant portion of the Red Hat product portfolio.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform including JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with Xen virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS.
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
Hardware: Eight Dell 2950 servers with 32 gigabytes of memory
Benefits: Booz Allen built a modular SOA environment that efficiently supported the development and integration of new applications into the system, reducing the dependence on custom coding when doing proof-of-concept or production deployments of client systems across a broad range of government and commercial applications
“We selected Red Hat and JBoss Enterprise Middleware in order to meet our client's budgetary constraints, support requirements and operational needs. The combination of efficiency provided by Xen, scalability provided by Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, and the clustering feature of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, along with the agility provided by the JBoss family of products has led our client to consider these products as their top-tier choice.”
– Christopher Dale, associate, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Opportunity: Create a more stable and cost-effective portfolio of software products for security firms and expand its client base by migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SteelEye high-availability solutions.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SteelEye LifeKeeper for Linux.
Benefits: Reduced costs and shorter IT support time to keep servers patched and available. Higher revenues due to client demand for a higher performing and more stable portfolio of applications.
“Not only is Red Hat Enterprise Linux affordable, but it is utterly reliable and stable compared to other versions of Linux.”
-- Steve Senk, hardware support manager, DICE Corporation."
Geography: Global, headquartered in San Jose, California
Opportunity: To reduce IT costs and increase user productivity by improving the performance and eliminating downtime of Lotus Notes and Domino applications being used throughout the worldwide enterprise.
Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite Server, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino.
Hardware: 64 servers, divided between Dell 2950s, HP DL380s, and IBM X3650s and desktops.
Benefits: Dramatically improved application performance for users, improving their productivity while freeing up IT resources to focus on more strategic issues for the business.
“Because of the difference in performance and reliability running Lotus Notes and Domino on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we are going back to our customers who run Notes and Domino applications and convincing them to switch as well. The IBM-Red Hat partnership is a win-win situation for all concerned.”
-- S.Pranatharthi Haran Practice Head - IBM Services, CSS Corp.
Opportunity: Combine varied IT systems following the merger of two companies, while modernizing obsolete equipment, reducing costs, and ensuring compatibility with existing solutions
Migration Path: AIX Unix and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SAP systems, Oracle database, Apache, MySQL, Open CMS, customized billing
Hardware: HP Proliant and Bull servers based on Itanium2, SAN for storage (25TB overall)
Benefits: Increased performance levels, system stability, and continuity, while simplifying usage, reducing overhead, and combining two radically different IT systems
“In addition to providing us with reliable support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux represents a strategic choice for us. By moving to the new platform, performance improved and systems became more stable, thus allowing us to greatly increase productivity.”
-- Roberto Ganio Mego, Iride Energia’s system administrator
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Business Challenge: To increase performance, reduce costs, and expand scalability for a mission-critical, rapidly evolving IT architecture requiring 100 percent uptime
Migration Path: Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Hardware: HPx86 and Intel
Benefits: Achieved system reliability, 90 percent cost savings, 3x performance gains, and unmatched scalability, while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Company: The Clinical Research Information Exchange (CRIX)
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Geography: Reston, Virginia
Opportunity: Create an electronic information exchange for all stakeholders involved in getting new drugs to market – from research and development, to clinical trials, to government approval
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss jBPM Framework, Alfresco Enterprise Content Management (ECM), and TriCipher
Benefits: Will enable previously unmatched levels of collaboration among pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and health care providers to make the drug development, testing, and approval process more secure and efficient while reducing costs and safeguarding the safety of the end consumer
Challenge: Replace former centralized system with a flexible and affordable solution that enables the ability to scale with website traffic spikes
Migration Path: Sun servers and EMC storage to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle databases
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Experienced reduced costs, enhanced performance, and greatly expanded scalability that enables easy deployment of additional servers to handle heightened website capacity
“We’ve really benefited from our new Linux-based system – the solution is less expensive, but displays the same high levels of performance. We have added more effort around IT management, but we’re also able to provide more quality services to our users with the enhanced speed and scalability that we now have access to.” -- Pyon Dae-bum, Deputy Manager at Chosun.com
Italian organization utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to maintain mission-critical systems for regional Chambers of Commerce
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RALEIGH, NC – July 16, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that InfoCamere, an organization responsible for managing the IT systems that connect and secure over 100 Italian Chambers of Commerce, relies on Red Hat and JBoss solutions for flexibility, reliability and ease of use for its mission-critical systems.
InfoCamere’s IT infrastructure, covering all 300 local offices, must ensure that its users, including administrations, companies and individuals, have immediate access to documents, information and legal data stored in the Chambers’ archives. When InfoCamere began developing its first Internet platform in 2000, it utilized Red Hat Linux 7.2 in both testing and production environments. After demonstrating high levels of reliability, the ability to succeed in critical production environments and flexibility with an extensive application ecosystem, InfoCamere decided to expand its use of Red Hat solutions to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Airport migrates servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Network
Raleigh, NC – August 6, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Munich Airport, recognized for three consecutive years as Europe's "Airport of the Year" by air transport research company Skytrax, has migrated a large portion of its UNIX servers and desktops to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Airport has since realized heightened performance, cost savings and reliable support.
Business Challenge: Decrease technology costs by avoiding expensive hardware replacement fees and improving performance and manageability
Migration Path: Tru64 Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, Oracle 9i
Hardware: 30 x HP DL385 (AMD Opteron)
Benefits: Increased performance by nearly 500 percent, achieved significant cost savings of approximately $140,000 per machine and gained reliable support from a trusted vendor
Opportunity: Replace aging, deficient UNIX-based system with a Linux solution that could deliver reduced costs, expanded flexibility, and heightened stability
Migration Path: RISC-based UNIX servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell x86 servers
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell x86 servers
Benefits: Reduced costs by 60 percent, enabled the sharing of data through flexible support of Network File System (NFS) protocols, gained flexibility in vendor selection, and increased work efficiency by more than four times
“We were also very satisfied with the choices that we were presented with once we deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Before, if we wanted to use an alternative operating system, we were locked in with a specific vendor. Now, we’re able to select vendors based on quality and stability and not brand.” – Seok-Ho Choi, Researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a strategy and technology consulting firm with more than 18,000 employees serving government clients from more than 80 offices and has been recognized by major publications as a best place to work. Integrating the full range of consulting capabilities, Booz Allen is the one firm that helps government clients solve their toughest problems with services in strategy, operations, organization and change, and information technology. Booz Allen is committed to delivering results that endure.
Likewise Software is a privately-held company that provides audit and authentication solutions designed to improve security, reduce operational costs, and help demonstrate regulatory compliance for enterprises with mixed network environments. Its product, Likewise Open, which has been certified by the company to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is an open-source enterprise-class solution that addresses the authentication needs of organizations with heterogeneous network infrastructures, by easily and quickly joining virtually all enterprise platforms to common directories such as Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Open is a great starting point for companies that are grappling with homegrown solutions to solve their authentication challenges. Likewise's premier offering, Likewise Enterprise, which has been certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, provides enterprises with significant added value by addressing the authentication, audit, and reporting needs of companies running multiple operating systems in their networks. By providing an easy upgrade path for customers that have installed Likewise Open, Likewise Enterprise allows enterprises to use group policies to manage their mixed environments as well as their audit capabilities. Located in Bellevue, Washington, Likewise currently has 50 employees.
By linking hundreds of millions of users the world over, Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering the communications capabilities that make its promise of "business made simple" a reality. Based in Toronto, Nortel provides enterprises and service providers in more than 150 countries with the next-generation technologies they need to support their multimedia and business-critical network applications. Nortel technologies help eliminate barriers to efficiency, speed, and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to their information-whenever and wherever they need it.
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s business objectives by delivering a robust technology platform to improve productivity and reduce costs
Migration Path: Intel-based variant of Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Solution:
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Hardware: 2 x HP BL45P blades
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, reliability, stability, performance, flexibility, scalability, and ease of management
"Europcar customers know that the car they reserve is the car they will get because they interface directly with our core reservations system. With the performance and reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we’re given the security and reliability that keeps our customers happy.” - Scott Allen, CIO at Europcar Asia Pacific
Business Challenge: To support Europcar’s focus on customer service by delivering a desktop solution that could affordably meet a range of user requirements
Migration Path: Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop, customised TelNet booking application
Benefits: Experienced decreased TCO and increased ROI, performance, flexibility, and ease of management
“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop immediately solved our licensing issues and certainly decreased our licensing costs. It also met 100 percent of our users’ needs. In fact, the Red Hat desktop solution has enabled us to adopt a new hardware policy that ensures that we maximise our hardware ROI.”
Business Challenge: To find a reliable, scalable, and easy-to-maintain backup and recovery solution for all database applications in two parallel data centres
Migration Path: Symantec BackupExec and Legato Unix Networker to SEP sesam running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, SEP sesam 3.2, Oracle 9 and 10 databases, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 databases
Hardware: Hewlett Packard x86 Server
Benefits:
Gained a flexible, reliable solution that delivers significant cost savings, performance boosts, and
compliance with internal and external security needs
“SEP sesam on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 enables us to reliably save and back up even our most sensitive data. We specifically benefit from the automated backup, enabling us to monitor its current status at a glance. Moreover, the solution suits our system environment very well and integrates seamlessly with our heterogeneous systems. Another asset of the new backup and recovery system is its cost effectiveness.”
Karl Bach, Systems Administrator, Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG
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Business Challenge: Replace an existing proprietary health information system (HIS) with an open-source-based suite of integrated applications to improve quality of patient care while cutting costs.
Migration Path: Moved from proprietary HIS legacy system to an open-source solution based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP hardware.
Software: Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution.
Hardware: Two HP Proliant DL580 G2 servers and one HP ProLiant DL380 server; HP Compaq desktops for client machines.
Implemented an open-source EHR that put patient information at the fingertips of healthcare providers for less than half the price of an equivalent proprietary system.
“Red Hat continues to make an incredibly valuable contribution to the technology industry by putting its tremendous resources behind Linux and commercializing it for enterprise use. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast for years, and I absolutely trust my organization’s well-being to Red Hat.” --David Whiles, Director of Information Systems for Midland Memorial Hospital
Business Challenge: Running on a costly AIX server that required an expensive maintenance contract and was close to end-of-life, frustrating OCPS’s IT department and draining taxpayer money
Migration Path: SAP on AIX to SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Domain Name Server on Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SAP running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: HP Superdome and HP BL460s and BL860s
Benefits: Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux to run business-critical SAP solutions gave OCPS a cost-effective, stable operating system that requires less maintenance and increases security
“Deploying Red Hat alleviated our concern about viruses and the number of penetration points, allowing us to focus on more productive IT initiatives. Running SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has given us the more secure and scalable operating system that we needed to stay within budget without sacrificing performance”
-Thomas McNabb, assistant director, device management, Orange County Public Schools
EsSalud utilizes virtualization capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Raleigh NC – November 28, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that EsSalud, a state-owned insurance and service provider in Peru offering medical and economic benefits that cover eight million regularly insured parties and successors, has experienced success with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. With the solution's virtualization capabilities, the company has stabilized its organization-wide systems through a swift, transparent and cost-effective implementation project.
CSI-Piemonte, Iride Energia and City of Marsala implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and additional Red Hat solutions
Raleigh, NC — October 23, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that three leading Italian organizations, including CSI-Piemonte, one of the top fifteen software and services companies in Italy, Iride Energia, a leading thermal and electric energy provider in Italy and the City of Marsala have found success with Red Hat solutions. Each has experienced heightened performance, cost-savings and increased reliability with solutions including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Support.
Apoteket migrates its existing server platform, in-house developed ERP-system ATS, from SPARC-based Solaris servers to new Intel hardware running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to reduce cost of ownership/TCO
Raleigh, NC — September 18, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Apoteket (The Swedish State Pharmacy), Sweden's largest state-owned pharmacy chain, has chosen to replace all of its servers at approximately 900 pharmacies with Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel hardware.
French Ministry selects open source solutions to avoid vendor lock-in, equipping all of its local education authorities with Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
Raleigh, NC — September 4, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the French Ministry for Education has migrated 2,500 servers across its 30 local education authorities to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This decision was made in line with the Ministry's strategy to invest in open source solutions in order to free itself from the constraints associated with proprietary software and vendor lock-in.
Migrating business-critical store applications to Red Hat solutions means simplified maintenance and freedom from vendor lock-in
Raleigh, NC - June 18, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Specsavers, the UK's most trusted optician, is migrating all of its servers, desktops and tills from Microsoft Windows 2000 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its 830 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Scandinavia and Spain. Specsavers selected Red Hat solutions for its Linux open standard strategy because they enabled the company to standardize applications on a Java platform without vendor lock-in. Since migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Specsavers has experienced a stable and future-proof platform, in addition to enjoying a reduced need for maintenance and increased reliability.
Challenge: Quick deployment of servers in an ever-growing network
Solution:Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Academic Edition with Red Hat Network; Hardware: IBM xSeries servers; Software: Oracle 9i Enterprise Database central administrative computing conversion in the university's history. Closely tied to the Oracle installation, Program Link is the cornerstone of the University's initiative for a totally integrated digital campus, so it was imperative that Wake Forest find an operating system that integrated cleanly with Oracle's total product line.
Business Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry
Migration Path: HP-UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results
“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.
“The multi-master replication was a huge issue for us previously. Red Hat Directory Server has solved that completely. Students, faculty and staff are our end users and this solution gives them the ability to make password changes effectively and securely so they can focus on their work.”
- Michael Pettinicchio, Systems Administrator, Dartmouth College
“Red Hat training is a big reason why we’ve been able to keep things running smoothly.
The best compliment from our average end user is nothing at all and that is what we’ve heard since the RHEL deployment.”
Jon Cutler, Director of Systems Administration, Marshall University
Industry: Higher Education
Geography: West Virginia
Opportunity: Running on a slow and expensive older system caused frustration for many at Marshall
Migration Path: SunGard Banner on HP AlphaServer with Open VMS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: SunGard Banner on RHEL
Hardware: Dell
Benefits: Enjoying increased performance, improved speed, and enhanced hardware options in a simplified environment
Business Challenge: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital; determine a solution to aid in delivering high-performance, secure, cost-effective systems to ensure optimized patient care; identify a solution to enable internal hosting and support for the growing number of external websites
Migration Path: IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network Satellite; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection
Hardware: HP and IBM servers
Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care; achieved 35 percent growth in its datacenter without needing to expand its hardware footprint or internal resources through its use of virtualization; gained expertise through the knowledge transfer resulting from virtualization and clustering-focused engagements with Red Hat Consulting
“Our first priority is security and our second is performance. When you can get security and performance needs met, and it costs less than the alternative, you go for it. That's the quadrant that Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays in.” -- Barbara Schleider, director of Technology Services, Management Information Systems (MIS) at Florida Hospital
Industry: Transportation Geography: Sweden Opportunity: Build a new development platform to rapidly deliver integrated IT projects across the business Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (JBoss AS 4.2, ESB 4.2, JBoss Messaging 1.4), EnterpriseDB Hardware: 2 IBM xSeries 346 servers Benefits: Increased time-to-market of services for customers, increased ROI and interest in rail travel, eliminated licensing costs for the platform, integrated IT systems, and avoided vendor lock-in
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BACKGROUND
Swedish Railways (SJ AB), the national railway operator in Sweden, travels between 350 stations and carries 100,000 passengers per day. The company maintains approximately 3,500 employees and boasts a yearly revenue of 1.3 billion dollars.
OPPORTUNITY
In May 2006, SJ AB recognized the need to upgrade its internal software delivery system in order to provide a shared platform for all of its IT systems. The integration of the IT systems is essential for SJ AB as it uses a diverse range of applications relevant to human resources, sales, and other departments. Each applications needs to be accessed across a range of interfaces from PCs to PDAs. A new department called the Integration Competence Centre (ICC) was established within SJ AB with assistance from Redpill. The ICC is responsible of establishing the Integration platform and deliver service based integration solutions and new service according to SJ AB requirements.
Opportunity: Determine a reliable, high-performing, and affordable platform on which to base its e-commerce website
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network
Hardware: Dell 1950 servers, Web/application servers quad core single CPU, Database servers dual core single CPU
Benefits: Realized reliability, high performance, cost savings, ease of installation and configuration, and enhanced security.
Category: Innovation in Government Submitted by: Douglas Babb Vertical: Government Geography: Hill Air Force Base, UT Website: http://www.hill.af.mil
Overview
Selected for use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to greatly reduce or eliminate system crashes, simplify a complicated operating environment and have minimal user disruption.
Category: Emerging and Leading Edge Technologies Submitted by: John Brzozowski, Architect and Principle Engineer Vertical: Broadband services Location: Philadelphia, PA Website: http://www.comcast.com
Overview
Selected for ther use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization capabilities to create a cost-effective, highly efficient testing and certification environment to support the corporate IPv6 initiative.
Submitted by: Michael Simpson, CTO Industry: Healthcare Geography: Louisville, CO Website: http://www.mckesson.com
Overview
Selected for being the first company to employ the Red Hat Enterprise Healthcare Platform to integrate its varied healthcare software applications on one unified platform, saving approximately one million dollars in combined software and hardware costs and allowing the company to provide a more robust and enterprise-ready solution for patient care.
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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Opportunity: Migrate core clinical applications to stable, secure operating environment and create new disaster-recovery system with higher availability
Migration Path: HP Unix to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Intersystems Caché; proprietary Triple A, utility, and security applications
Hardware: HP DL385 with AMD dual-core processors
Benefits: Realized $200,000 in annual cost savings, decreased annual downtime from 20 hours to near zero—furthering leading-edge patient care
Industry: Food Manufacturing Geography: Italy Opportunity: Ensure the fast processing of customer orders by reducing system response times and maintaining consistent performance levels, even during peak periods Solution:
Software: 6 virtualized instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running on IBM z/VSE and z/VM, DB2/Udb database, Ware Place and Tomcat
Hardware: IBM zSeries 9 Business Class mainframe
Benefits: Maintain response times calculating to under one second, efficiently manage various databases with over 24 gigabytes of data and simplify communication among operating systems through use of XML within the mainframe
Opportunity: Build a hosting business providing excellent value, support, and low prices; implement scalable backup and restoration solution that could support phenomenal growth rates
Migration Path: Novell Linux Enterprise SUSE to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Hibernate; MySQL, Oracle, and Postgres databases; BakBone NetVault: Backup
Hardware: Dell PowerEdge Series servers
Benefits: Helped achieve phenomenal customer growth rates by facilitating sales and customer support and supporting scalability of new backup and restoration system
Industry: Business equipment supply and distribution Geography: Australia Challenge: To deliver an efficient service to customers, Corporate Express required a solution that was stable and secure, yet also flexible enough to support its bespoke online ordering application, NetXpress. Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite Hardware: Approximately 14 Intel blade servers Benefits:
Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business
Facilitated the creation of a high-performance infrastructure that supports rapid database growth; flexible application development and high levels of Red Hat support translate into huge cost-savings and a competitive advantage
Industry: Digital advertising Challenge: DoubleClick faced the challenge of developing an infrastructure that is reliable, cost-effective, and most importantly, flexible, in providing choice with hardware vendors in order to avoid vendor lock-in. Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, Red Hat Network, Acronis True Image Server for Linux, Solaris, Windows, Red Hat Global Learning Services - Red Hat Certified Engineer training Hardware: AMD, Intel, HP Benefits:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux provided DoubleClick with flexibility and power of choice in selecting a hardware vendor to avoid lock-in.
Using Red Hat solutions helped DoubleClick save over $500,000 in hardware costs. DoubleClick now has the ability to handle more work load with fewer CPUs, as it ported 112 CPUs to 64 CPUs.
With the help of Acronis solutions, DoubleClick enjoyed an easy and quick migration from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4 in one hour.
Benefits: Three-fold improvement in system performance. Lower project costs (as much as half the previous system costs). Multi-platform support. Impressive reliability and stability.
Benefits: Deployment complete three months ahead of schedule. Significantly reduced project cost due to fewer required resources. Strong delivery rates. Increased control.
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Ticketmaster is the world's leading ticketing company, selling more than 98 million tickets and serving more than 9,000 venue, promoter, sports team, and event clients worldwide in 2004. Ticketmaster scheduled eight months to add high-performance email to its existing CRM solution. It was operational in one month with StrongMail and Red Hat Enterprise Linux providing them unprecedented speed, delivery and control.
Opportunity: Swisscom IT Services needed to create a standardised and stable operating system environment to host outsourced services for its customers. The company also wanted to simplify the provisioning and allocation of new servers by creating an automated staging infrastructure.
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.
Industry: Services Geography: Italy Goal: To provide fast, reliable weather forecasting for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games Solution: Platform: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES
Software: Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Application Server
Systems Management: Red Hat Network Benefits: Reliable and secure. Solid support. Simple systems management.
Benefits: Gained huge efficiencies, saved customers up to one million dollars in total cost of ownership, and provided a reliable, enterprise-ready solution that helps provide high-quality patient care
Challenges: Use technology to reduce manufacturing costs. Integrate ERP with legacy infrastructure. Eliminate server compromises. Seamlessly migrate key legacy components to the latest platform
Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of under six months. Complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure. Enterprise Linux & Red Hat Cluster Suite deliver continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues.
Finding a better way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Industry: State and Local Government Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2 Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options
Central Bank of India is one of the largest banks in India. Established in 1911, it was the first Indian commercial bank to be wholly owned and managed by Indians. Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala, founder of the Bank proudly declared on its establishment that Central Bank was the 'property of the nation and the country's asset.' The bank's customer base of 25 million is among the largest in the industry and it has 3115 branches spread across the vast geography of India. Progressive management and far-sighted leadership have ensured that the bank has maintained its status as an asset for the country.
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