Qatar Exchange Turns to Red Hat for a Reliable, Scalable and High-Performance Trading Platform

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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Leading Danish Retail Bank SPARBANK Migrates to JBoss Enterprise Middleware to Ensure High Availability for Mission-Critical Applications

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Customer: Sparbank

Industry: Banking

Geography: Denmark

Business Challenge: For legal compliance reasons, SPARBANK must ensure high availabillity for mission-critical applications. The bank also required access to professional support and services for its application platform.

Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Service Bus

Migration Path: JBoss.org community project to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Benefits: Guaranteed high availability and greater flexibility of SPARBANK's mission-critical application platform

“Running mission-critical applications in a bank requires a supported platform. Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware suite offers access to a complete set of services, including industry-leading technical support, certified patches and updates, long-term maintenance policies, and software assurance. Therefore it was a natural choice to migrate from the unsupported JBoss Community project to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Platform.”
-- Kenneth Larsen, development team at SPARBANK

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Seedco Helps Those Who Need it Most with Application Built Using JBoss Enterprise Middleware

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Customer: Seedco (www.seedco.org)

Industry: Philanthropy, not-for-profit organizations

Geography: New York

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

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Financial Service Organization Maintains 100% Uptime and Saves 2 Million Euros with Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware

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Customer: LaSer Nederland B.V. (LSN)

Industry: Financial services, marketing services

Geography: Netherlands

Red Hat Partner: ISAAC (JBoss Solution Partner)

Business Challenge: To create self-service websites that allow LSN's customers to manage and control their financial products online, such as point-of-sale (POS) loan application and reporting services; to build a secure, flexible, scalable, and adaptable platform for the company's new core system to connect back-end applications to the websites.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Operations Network, JBoss Business Rules Management System (BRMS), HP Dialogue Live and VMWare.

Hardware: Windows 2008 Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Dell PowerEdge 2950 with two quad-core 2.8 GHz CPUs per server, 32 GB RAM per server; EMC SAN storage via iSCSI.

Benefits: Operational savings of €2,250,000, increased security, flexibility, and manageability for the IT department, expanded functionality and performance and enhanced service that allows consumers to manage their financial affairs online, such as opening or closing an account or viewing credit card transactions in real time.

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Ganart Technologies Builds Financial Transaction Cloud on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

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FAST FACTS

Customer: Ganart Technologies

Industry: Financial services

Geography: North America

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

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Growing Opportunity Powers its Portfolio Management and Mail Server Applications with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Reduce Costs, Enhance Performance, and Improve Business Agility

FAST FACTS

Customer: Growing Opportunity

Industry: Micro Finance (MFI)

Geography: Pan India

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

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NCDEX Reduces IT Costs, Increases Performance, Standardizes IT Architecture and Achieves 99.99% Uptime Using Red Hat Solutions

FAST FACTS

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

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: APAC , Financial Services , Geography , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform , Red Hat Solutions

NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

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FAST FACTS

Customer: NYSE Euronext

Industry: Financial trading

Geography: Global

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

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Nationwide Mutual Insurance: JBoss Innovation Award Winner

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

Hardware:Four HP dual-core AMD Opteron processor-based 8216 servers, Azul Java Appliance

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.

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Citigroup: Red Hat Innovation Award Winner

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.

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Euronet Powers Its Card Management Application on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to Reduce Operational Costs, Enhance Performance, and Improve Business Agility

FAST FACTS

Customer: Euronet Services India Pvt. Limited (Subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide Inc.)

Industry: eCommerce – online financial transaction

Geography: Pan India

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

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Tokyo Stock Exchange Executes Millisecond Trading with New System Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

"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.

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FinecoBank Optimises Its IT Infrastructure With Red Hat Solutions

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.

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Deutsche Börse Systems Builds the First Risk Management Platform with Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging and the Open Standard AMQP

Customer: Deutsche Börse Systems

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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

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: EMEA , Financial Services , Geography , Industry , Red Hat + JBoss Solutions , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform , Red Hat Solutions

GE Money Bank Scales IT Infrastructure for Business Growth with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Virtualization

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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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Millennium Global Investments (MGI) Standardizes on Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Deployment of JBoss Enterprise BRMS improves scalability, efficiency and risk management for investment company

Raleigh, NC – January 20, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Millennium Global Investments (MGI), a specialist in developing and managing alternative investment products for institutional investors, has selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository.

London-based MGI wanted to improve the flexibility of its compliance system so that its business and trade rules could be revised and adjusted rapidly within a managed environment. MGI selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS to bring business rules into a managed environment, standardise business rules and support the scalability of the business.

The transparency of the new repository enables MGI business users to gain access to detailed information about why certain rules may prevent trading. This access improves business users' efficiency and reduces the number of queries sent to MGI’s IT organisation. The transparent business rules repository is also an essential part of MGI’s risk management strategy

“Red Hat's flexible subscription terms for JBoss Enterprise Middleware allowed us to deploy only the components needed for the new platform and to avoid vendor lock-in. Unlike other vendors, Red Hat offers the ability to support other applications of the rules engine, be it market signal monitoring or algorithmic trading,” said Richard Macaskill, managing director, IT & Systems Development, MGI. “We were very pleased with the level of support Red Hat provided during the new business rules repository's development. We are extremely satisfied to have deployed an integrated business rules platform that has improved our efficiency and ability to manage risk.”

: EMEA , Financial Services , Geography , Industry , International , JBoss Enterprise BRMS , JBoss Enterprise Frameworks , JBoss Enterprise Middleware , JBoss Enterprise Platforms

Red Hat Provides Spanish Financial Services Association, ATCA, With a Stable and Scalable Solution for its Electronic Banking System

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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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Security Depository Center of Jordan Places Red Hat Enterprise Linux at Center of its Open Source Strategy

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.”

: Dell , EMEA , Financial Services , Geography , Government , IBM , Industry , Partner , Red Hat + JBoss Solutions , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat Network , Red Hat Network Satellite , Red Hat Solutions , Red Hat Systems Management

Banco Pastor Reduces Costs and Improves Scalability with Red Hat, SAP, and IBM Solutions

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Company: Banco Pastor

Industry: Financial Services Banking

Geography:Spain

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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Union Bank Migrates from Unix and WebSphere to Red Hat and JBoss Solutions

COMPANY: Union Bank, N.A.

CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives

INDUSTRY: Financial Services

GEOGRAPHY: Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

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

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GEICO MIGRATES TO JBOSS ENTERPRISE APPLICATION PLATFORM

COMPANY: GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company)

CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives

INDUSTRY: Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: US

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Existing proprietary middleware platform was complex to manage, not performing and scaling as expected and expensive to maintain. The architecture team decided to investigate alternatives that could be deployed that would better meet their needs.

MIGRATION PATH: Proprietary middleware platform to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: 28 bands (1 band = 32 CPUs), JBoss Technical Account Manager (TAM), Red Hat Consulting, Amentra

HARDWARE: 50 Dell servers

BENEFITS: Reduced the total cost of ownership by more than 30%, throughput gain of 3X with utilization down to 1/3rd of the current platform, overall resource utilization went from above 50% to under 10% which allowed significant room for scalability without having to acquire additional hardware.

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AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE: JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER

COMPANY: American Family Mutual Insurance Company

INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Management Excellence

INDUSTRY: Property and Casualty Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: North America

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost effective centralized management solution for its 1,200 instances of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that would scale with its growing computing infrastructure

MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network

SOFTWARE:JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on 150 plus systems, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle DB, HP OpenView

HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers

BENEFITS: Improved availability and reliability of applications, a monitoring solution that can manage a large number of application server instances, simplified management, enhanced management and monitoring, and reduced costs

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Allianz Australia Limited Standardizes On Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM's System z Platform and JBoss Enterprise Middleware

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

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Red Hat Solutions Enable CME Group To Process Millions Of Critical Financial Transactions Per Day

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FAST FACTS

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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National City Standardized on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Scale in Support of Rapid Business Growth

FAST FACTS

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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SNS Bank Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with JBoss jBPM

FAST FACTS

Company: SNS Bank

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Netherlands

Middleware: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and jBPM

Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Flexible and high-performance platform; fast, standardized development, cost effective, low total cost of ownership.

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RED HAT AND JBOSS SOLUTIONS ENABLE BANKA KOPER TO BECOME SLOVENIA'S FIRST BANK TO BRING ALL BANKING SERVICES ONLINE

FAST FACTS

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Slovenia

Business Challenge: Banka Koper chose to build its new online banking solution, Banka IN, on Red Hat’s open source platform to avoid vendor lock-in, enable in-house innovation, and because the Red Hat solution offered easy integration, greater efficiency, and better performance.

Migration Path: Proprietary Platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3, including JBoss Seam, Alfresco Content Management System, and IBM DB2.

Hardware: HP BladeSystem

Benefits: Reduced operational costs, and enabled easy integration, faster development time, and in-house innovation

“Red Hat’s open source platform is the right solution for Banka Koper. It is in line with our business strategy to become independent of any technology platform and allows us to develop our own solutions and stay at the forefront of technology innovation,”
-Mojca Plahuta, director of Information Technology Division, Banka Koper

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BBP Builds Reliable Reputation on Integrated Open Source Development Stack

SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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.

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Red Hat Virtualization and JBoss Helps Quamnet Build Next Generation Financial Portal

FAST FACTS

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Hong Kong

Business Challenge: Rapid business growth and the expansion of its service portfolio made it necessary to replace website with an efficient financial information portal, and to leverage virtualization technology to reduce hardware footprint and increase operational flexibility

Migration Path: Microsoft Windows and UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP with integrated virtualization

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate

Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers

Services: Red Hat Consulting

Benefits: High-performance, flexible IT infrastructure delivered through the integrated virtualization technology in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 50-70% Reduction in software and hardware costs

“Previously, in the financial services industry, companies were forced to rely on proprietary vendors. We are using Red Hat because of our confidence in the company to meet our very high levels of availability, performance and security that are essential in our business. The use of Red Hat and JBoss has enabled us to save approximately 50-70% overall on the entire project costs and even more in annual costs.”
-Philip Choi, Head of Technology for Quam Limited

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Korea Federation of Banks Implements Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform Virtualization

FAST FACTS

Geography: Republic of Korea

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

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

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

Hardware: Dell PE2950/ PE1850, EMC CX3-10

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

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

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Wall Street Systems Boosts Revenues, Cuts Costs by Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

FAST FACTS

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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Handelsbanken Offers 21st Century Banking Services Using IBM and Red Hat Solutions

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.

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IWBank Streamlines Web Assets With Red Hat and JBoss

Online bank selects JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for web applications

MILAN, ITALY, 10 February 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IWBank, an organization focused on financial services and online banking, has selected JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the JBoss Operations Network to improve the efficiency of its web-banking applications.

IWBank is committed to providing integrated online financial services that guarantee high efficiency, safety and transparency levels, in addition to offering competitive terms and excellent service to its customers. In late 2008, IWBank decided to extend its collaboration with Red Hat, which provides the bank with open source solutions, by adopting the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to develop its web applications.

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Bank of New Zealand Reduces Carbon Footprint with Red Hat on the Mainframe

2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem

FAST FACTS

Industry: Finance/banking

Geography: New Zealand

Business Challenge: Address environmental and space issues in the datacentre and achieve the corporate goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2010

Migration Path: From distributed Intel and SUN SPARC servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 running under z/VM on IBM z9 and z10 mainframes

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite, Oracle database, WebSphere Application Server, ESB, Process Server, TX and MQ

Hardware: 1x IBM z9 and 1x IBM z10 mainframe (with 3 x IFL engines in each)

Benefits:
Recovered 30 percent of datacenter floor space

Reduced power consumption by 38 percent

20 percent return on investment (ROI) over the life of the platform

Simplified, more efficient deployment

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Nigerian Bank Chooses Red Hat and JBoss SOA Solutions for Mission-Critical Banking Applications

Bank PHB improves flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat solutions

Dubai, GITEX – October 23, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Bank PHB, one of Nigeria’s top ten banks, has migrated its core mission-critical banking applications to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. Bank PHB migrated to Red Hat’s open source solutions to achieve the next step in scalability, performance and the ability to handle heavy workloads and achieve cost reduction more effectively than with other proprietary software platforms.

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Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG Relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SEP Sesam for Backup Systems

Fast Facts

Customer: Vereinsbank Victoria Bauspar AG

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Germany

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

This story is available in the following languages: English and German

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Daiwa Securities America Banks Its Business on JBoss

Company: Daiwa Securities America Inc.

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: New York

Opportunity: Build an utterly reliable, high-performance portal using open source to speed application development while reducing costs

Migration Path: Proprietary application server and portal solutions to JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Rules Framework. Databases: Sybase SQL (transactional), Sybase IQ (data warehousing for production environment), Microsoft SQL (training data), Alfresco Software for enterprise content management (ECM).

Operating System: Windows 2000

Hardware: Intel dual-core Intel Xeon HP servers

Benefits: Established a reliable platform with no unplanned downtime, sped time-to-market by cutting application development time in half, dramatically improved application performance, and saved $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs

Daiwa Trusts JBoss: “If our portal were to go down today, it would be catastrophic. JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal platforms have been extremely reliable and stable. JBoss is a worry-free solution that helps us sleep better at night.” —Steve Dunstan, Enterprise Systems Architect and Vice President, Information Technology, Daiwa Securities America Inc.

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NYSE Euronext Chooses Red Hat Solutions for Its Mission-Critical Financial Trading Platform

World's leading exchange group experiences flexibility, reliability and performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Raleigh, NC – May 14, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, has announced that NYSE Euronext utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network to maintain the reliability, high performance and security of its mission-critical financial trading platform. With Red Hat solutions, NYSE Euronext has realized greater flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, cost savings and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing rapid performance results.
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Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance Powers Mission-Critical Applications with Red Hat Solutions

Government institution selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and performance

Raleigh NC - December 17, 2024 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance has selected Red Hat solutions to power the organization's mission-critical applications. The Ministry selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for reliability and heightened performance, and is utilizing the solution as the main platform for many of its critical applications, including its Service Personale Tesoro (SPT) application, which runs on one of the most popular Italian government websites.
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Latin American Insurance Provider Centralizes IT Systems With Red Hat Solutions

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.
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Union Bank of California to Standardize on Red Hat

Company benefits from central, secure management through Red Hat Network and plans to expand open source deployment with JBoss.
RALEIGH, NC - January 29, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Union Bank of California, one of the 25 largest banks in the United States, will standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Company migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux from AIX to realize significant performance gains as well as centralized, secure management through Red Hat Network. Union Bank is also piloting JBoss as well as MySQL and plans to make Red Hat's complete solution stack part of its core technology direction.
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NYSE Euronext Chooses Red Hat Solutions for Flexibility and Reliable, Fast-Paced Performance

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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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Daiwa Securities America - 2008 JBoss Innovation Award Winner

Category: User Experience

Winner: Daiwa Securities America

Submitted by: Steve Dunstan, Vice President / Enterprise Systems Architect

Industry: Financial services

Geography: New York, NY

Overview
Migration of 120 separate applications running to JBoss Portal using a series of unified templates. This enabled rapid growth, increased productivity, faster service, and hundreds of thousand of dollars in cost-savings.

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Cornèr Bank finds success with JBoss technology to ensure an optimal integration

Industry: Finance
Geography: Lugano, Switzerland
Opportunity: Cornèr Bank needed a cost efficient and innovative solution to address the mobile needs of credit cards customers.
Software: JBoss Application Server, JMS

“The mobile services offered by Cornèr Bank are state-of-the-art. No other credit card institute in Switzerland can claim such advanced services for its cardholders. Thank to the JBoss AS application server, the SW development and integration of those new services has proven to be highly efficient.”
-Massimo Calanchini, Cornèr Banca SA, IT Project Manager

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SESCO Enterprises Improves Performance with Red Hat and JBoss

Industry: Electricity and natural gas trading

Geography: New Jersey and Pennsylvania

Opportunity: Build an internal infrastructure to provide maximum development flexibility and high-system reliability and performance for fast-paced trading business

Solution: Hardware: IBM Power PCs with Intel Dual P5 Processors, IBM xSeries with Intel Dual Xeon Processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4 and 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform , MySQL databases, SESCO database application

Benefits:

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

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SNS Bank Migrates to JBoss Enterprise Platform

Industry: Financial Services

Challenge: SNS Bank's IT systems handle 500,000 daily transactions produced by various applications on 3,300 workstations. The bank's front-end system was reaching its technical and economical limit and was reducing the opportunity for innovation and scalability within the organization. The SNS IT team, responsible for cost savings, looked for a solution that was flexible, stable, and scalable.

Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server
Hardware: 8 IBM X-series servers

Benefits:

SNS Bank was able to rapidly deploy its new system onto 3,300 workstations in nine months.

The bank experienced reduced licensing costs and overall cost savings after migrating to JBoss solutions.SNS Bank also experienced a reduction in hardware demands following the implementation of its new system.

Increased stability and reliability of the organization's production platform was enjoyed following its migration.

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CitiStreet Hits the Road Running with Red Hat

Industry: Financial

Geography: North Quincy, Massachusetts (also New Jersey)

Challenge: CitiStreet faced increasing volume on its Web applications, both from an expanding client base and increased utilization of the Web by the plan participants they service. An earlier migration-from a C-based solution to Enterprise Java-had been successful but now required ongoing improvement. CitiStreet needed to future-proof its Web infrastructure and stay on budget.

Solution: Software: JBoss Application Server 3.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Sun Java Virtual Machine 5.0
Hardware: HP ProLiant DL series servers (DL 580s and DL 360s)
Services: JBoss Consulting, JBoss On-site Training, JBoss Platinum Subscription, Red Hat Professional Services, Red Hat Support delivered through HP

Benefits: Significantly increased hardware resources without incurring any software licensing costs. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional cost savings per year with subscriptions to Red Hat Network and JBoss Operations Network. Improved performance and user experience on CitiStreet website. A resilient, highly-available, secure infrastructure to support long-term business growth. High-quality and responsive 24x7x365 support from knowledgeable, technical staff.

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

Bank expects to save $1 million over two years after adopting Linux as its infrastructure platform.

Industry: Banking
Geography: India

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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