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Customer: Telecinco

Industry: Broadcast Media

Geography: Spain

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

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

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

Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers

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

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

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

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Customer: Cox Enterprises

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

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Customer: Eveready Industries India Limited

Industry: Manufacturing

Geography: Pan India

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

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

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

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

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

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

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

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Customer: ResMed

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: Replacing end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that would facilitate lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance

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

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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

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

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Customer: GE Money Bank

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Czech Republic

Red Hat Premier Partner: Enlogit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Customer: Asociación Técnica Cajas de Ahorros (ATCA)

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Spain

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

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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

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

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

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

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

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Company: Victoria University of Wellington

Industry: Higher Education

Geography New Zealand

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

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Company: CME Group

Industry: Financial Exchange

Geography: Global

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.

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Company: National City Corporation

Industry: Financial services

Geography: North America

Business Challenge: Reengineering the datacenter infrastructure with a cost-effective and scalable platform that provided mission-critical reliability and superior performance to accommodate fast-paced business expansion

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle DB

Hardware: 600 Intel Xeon Processor-based x86-based physical and virtual HP ProLiant DL580 servers

Migration Path: From UNIX systems, including Sun Solaris, running on proprietary RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon Processor-based HP ProLiant servers

Benefits: Reduced IT operating costs down to two cents per transaction which has the potential to save millions over the life of the systems, provided the ability to scale for business growth, and reegineered datacenter without unscheduled business interruptions

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“In addition to its ability to scale, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has rock-solid reliability and has been extremely stable. Our decision to standardize on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure was key to enabling rapid business growth while maintaining customer service levels.” – Thomas McGinnis, platform engineer, PNC (formerly National City Corporation)

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Customer: Healthplan Services (HPS)

Geography: North America

Industry: Healthcare

Migration Path: Sun Solaris 9 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; Sun SPARC servers to virtualized Linux instances on HP ProLiant DL380 servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with built-in Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network, Apache webserver, MySQL databases, IBM DB2

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 servers

Benefits: Increased performance, usability and convenience; enhanced support, and reduced cost with a Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration on HP ProLiant servers

“The speed is going to increase: we'll see people working faster, and we'll be able to process more claims, all by switching an operating system. I can't believe it was that cut and dry.”
-- Adam Atkinson, UNIX administrator at Healthplan Services

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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.

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Customer: Aviza Technology

Industry: Electronics

Deployment Country: United States

Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning

Business Partner: IBM

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.

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Company: Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Industry: Education

Geography: International

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

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Company: Wall Street Systems

Industry: Financial Services - Software

Geography: Global

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

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Partner: Tapasol Solutions

Customer: ServusNet Informatics

Industry: Technology

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

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Customer: Chosun.com

Industry: Technology

Geography: Headquartered in Seoul, Korea

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

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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.

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Customer: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science

Sector: Public Administration

Geographic location: Spain

Opportunity: Replace mixed proprietary IT environment to simplify management and improve system performance and availability

Migration Path: Sun Solaris and IBM z/OS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Tomcat

Hardware: HP, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens servers

Benefits: Achieved simplified system management and improved system availability, performance, reliability, stability, and platform flexibility

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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.

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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.

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Industry: Financial Trading

Geography: Global

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

Hardware: 200 HP ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers, 400 ProLiant BL 685c blades, AMD dual-core Opteron processors

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.

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Industry: e-commerce

Geography: Seattle, Washington

Website:: www.go2marine.com

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.

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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.

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Category: Increased Return on Investment
Submitted by: Andrea Zissler: Director, Information Technology
Industry: Education and Information Technology
Geography: Ann Arbor, MI
Website: http://www.proquest.com

Overview

An innovative approach to drive out cost and achieve measurable ROI as a result of implementing a Red Hat solution. Results could include financial return or percentage increase in productivity, yield, efficiency, quality, or uptime performance.

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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.

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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

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Central Bank of India: Expects to save $1 million over two years after adopting Red Hat as its infrastructure platform