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
Customer: Siemens AG (Industry, Mobility, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions)
Industry: Logistics
Geography: HQ: Germany
Business Challenge: Create a new, highly scalable, and reliable software platform for automated address recognition, coding, and image management capable of handling hundreds of thousands of mail pieces per hour
Solution: Infrastructure Logistics' Open Reading Coding Architecture (ORCA) relies on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware foundation, orchestrating the recognition and coding of addresses and workflow of up to 700,000 mail pieces per hour by a single image management system with an availability rate of up to 99.8 percent.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Hardware: Standard x86 hardware
Benefits: Improved scalability, availability, and performance, combined with cost savings
“Wherever you live, it is likely that several letters that you have received have been read, coded, and processed for delivery by one of our systems using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as the middleware foundation.”
-- Peter Schindler, Product Manager, Infrastructure Logistics, Postal Solutions
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
Business Challenge: To build a scalable and highly flexible middleware infrastructure for a new Java-based customer care and marketing application based on proven database server hardware
Migration Path: Legacy IBM AS/400 client-server based application to a browser-based system developed in Java, using JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Built a modern and scalable infrastructure; Realised considerable cost savings; Secured its investment in a mission-critical, future-proof infrastructure
”What’s great about JBoss Enterprise Middleware is that all the components just work together nicely. We can pick just what we need and keep the total cost of ownership much lower than with proprietary software. That also saves us a lot of time and effort when architecting the system.”
-- Uwe Wagensommer, head of IT at Glöckle direct
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.
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
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
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.
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Chosen as the Hypervisor Technology for IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud
Raleigh, NC - March 16, 2025 - Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that IBM has selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service for development and test.
"Our decade-long partnership with Red Hat has always been focused on customer value and innovation. Today, we are extending this partnership to include cloud computing – broadening our reach and answering the strong customer demand for cloud computing services," said Maria Azua, vice president of Cloud Computing Enablement at IBM. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is an optimal hypervisor technology for the infrastructure offerings on the IBM cloud."
Red Hat first announced plans to deliver Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in February 2009 to help address customer concerns about virtualization, such as performance, scalability and security. In November 2009, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers was released, providing customers with a new, fully featured, cost-effective choice in the virtualization market. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers some of the industry's latest technology, enabling enterprise adoption of virtualization and the deployment of open cloud computing infrastructures.
"Customers are expected to benefit significantly from the collaboration of IBM and Red Hat in enterprise virtualization and cloud computing," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat. "Together, Red Hat and IBM aim to break down barriers to virtualization and cloud adoption by providing customers with a stable and robust environment to meet their enterprise applications requirements. We believe that combining Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization software with IBM's server, storage and network hardware, plus IBM's well-known enterprise support and services, as the foundational components of IBM's cloud infrastructure offers a compelling application environment for customers."
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
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.”
Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite is 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. It offers customers opportunities to gain enhanced performance, centralized control and higher scalability for their systems, while deployed on a management server located inside the customer’s datacenter and firewall.
In September 2009, Red Hat released RHN Satellite 5.3, the first fully open source version of the product. This latest version offers opportunities for increased flexibility and faster provisioning setups for customers with the incorporation of open source Cobbler technology in its provisioning architecture. The 5.3 release is also designed to allow customers to better scale with server growth, offering the ability to manage large numbers of systems with comparable ease to managing one.
Recently, IDC also published a Red Hat-sponsored paper featuring the systems management benefits that customers have experienced with RHN Satellite. After interviewing 10 RHN Satellite customers in depth – crossing geographies and industry verticals — IDC reported significant return on investment (ROI) and productivity results for customers. Here are some of the highlights from the customer testimonials:
Average of 338% ROI
Average payback period of 4.8 months
A doubled increase in the number of Linux servers managed per system administrator
Average annual benefit of $82,521 per 100 Linux servers
Average of $23,207 in annual user productivity increase
In their own words, customers quoted in the paper showed that RHN Satellite helped them achieve:
Enhanced productivity: “If RHN Satellite Server didn’t exist, I would need another person or more.”
Scalability: “…with Satellite Server, once things are set up and it is in place, managing 200 servers is as easy as managing one.”
Reduced costs: “For an OS install, we used to hire someone outside to do the work. We would buy the hardware, then we pay them to come on site, answer questions. So now, we are completely avoiding that cost.”
Faster server setup and management: “As far as time saving goes, I would say we are easily saving 20 hours per month because we aren’t doing things manually.”
Business growth: “In terms of the impact, I always count what we can sell in an hour. If the system is down, we can’t sell and that’s a revenue impact. In just one hour, we might lose millions of euros, so the impact is huge.”
To read the full IDC paper on RHN Satellite, visit here.
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
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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Reduced Costs By Migrating Its Web Application Platform and Building a Customer Information Portal on JBoss Enterprise Middleware
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Customer: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg)
Industry: Printing & Publishing, Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Geography: US, EMEA
Business Challenge: Establish a new customer specific portal to enhance its customer relationship and provide internal business units with valuable customer insight; Evaluate and deploy an application server platform for its Java-based environment
Solution: With the help of Red Hat Consulting, Heidelberg built an interactive customer portal using JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and migrated its proprietary application platform to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Oracle 10g database, SAP R/3, Autonomy search engine, Interwoven TeamSite 6.5 (CMS), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit
Hardware: Virtualized servers and F5 Load balancer
Partner: Maris IT Consulting
Migration path: Proprietary portal platform and application server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Benefits: Improved customer web presence with a central portal that increased services and information available, provided ability to use applications based on open standards in order to interact better with customers, suppliers and partners, reduced costs, gained excellent support and continuous advancements of its portal software, and reduced vendor lock-in.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
Business Challenge: Enabling a rapidly growing, high-volume, 24x7 business, through the creation of an agile and highly productive development environment for building and running mission-critical applications.
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: x86 servers
Migration Path: From many database centric Windows platform components towards a SOA enterprise architecture providing service orchestration, platform independence and loose coupling of coarse-grained application modules. The latter allows for an evolutionary approach to re-platforming of a very large enterprise system without a large up-front cost and significant business risk.
Benefits: A highly productive, flexible and robust application development environment that enables MedQuist to proficiently produce innovative functionality for customer-facing solutions and to quickly take advantage of newly acquired applications by efficiently integrating them into its DocQment Enterprise Platform.
“Our applications are mission critical and absolutely need to be available 24x7. Red Hat’s JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux products just work, enabling us to focus on building industry-leading software, which in turn helps our customers reduce their costs and improve patient care.”
– Dan Garnett, Vice President of Product Development, MedQuist.
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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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.
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: 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
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.
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
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
RALEIGH, NC - April 28, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Brazilian National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (Inep), has migrated its applications to a full suite of JBoss Enterprise Middleware technology, including the JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms. Since beginning its migration to JBoss solutions, Inep has increased scalability, performance and stability for its mission-critical applications.
Inep, a Federal Institution linked to the Education Ministry of Brazil (MEC), manages the data and results from educational studies, research and evaluations related to the Brazilian Educational System. It is also responsible for the National High School Brazilian Exam (ENEM), which had over one million online registrations in 2008. After regularly encountering IT issues that required reconfiguring Inep's system, the organization decided that the performance and scalability of its complex IT architecture must be increased to better execute daily tasks.
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.
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.
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.
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
Challenge: To develop a technology solution on a stable, secure, and affordable platform for an Internet-based tax return project.
Migration Path: From proprietary software to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and from JBoss Application Server 2.4 to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Software: Red Hat Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Hardware: HP blades with dual-core AMD processors and quad-core Intel processors on a 64-bit architecture
Benefits: To promote and enable Internet-based tax return filing by taxpayers to reduce processing times and avoid increasing the customer service infrastructure at its own counters and bank tellers.
SRI's experience with open source has been successful. The organization has achieved an efficient, reliable, scalable and affordable platform. The access to Red Hat’s source code has allowed the company to customize the functionality of the products in terms of business needs. The success achieved with Red Hat solutions has encouraged the organization to explore open source solutions for other areas of the business.
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: 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
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.
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.
Challenge: Provide greater performance and stability for the company’s web platform with the fundamental objective to increase online sales
Migration Path: Oracle Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES v4, and JBoss Operation Network
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server 4.2 and Red Hat Enterprise ES Linux 4.0
Hardware: 3 + 2 servers, 2 for Application Server, 1 for JBoss ON, 2 servers for Oracle database on HP-UX.
Benefits: Improved performance, stability, and scalability of the platform, while also enhancing architecture control
“The continuous increase in online sales made through the web means the priority of the Corporate IT department must be to seek maximum availability and performance of the technology platform. Red Hat solutions have proven to exceed expectations for the the current and future needs of our platform.”
-- Ricardo Mardomingo, IT Manager of NH Hoteles.
Geography: Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia
Business Challenge: Rebuild the All Homes Pty Ltd technology platform in order to modernise its website, ensuring an optimal user experience and equipping the site with support for future expansion plans
Migration Path: Outdated, costly software and hardware solutions to enterprise Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Hibernate Framework
Solution:
Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Hibernate, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Hardware: IBM xSeries x3550 and x3560 servers
Benefits: Experienced increased performance, reliability, flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness
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 establish an open source platform to support Centrebet’s OpenBet online betting application and provide the reliability demanded by a 24x7x365 business
Migration Path: Mixture of heterogeneous systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite
Solution:
Software: OpenBet, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite
Hardware: 10 x HP DL360 G5, 10 x Sun Sunfire x4200
Benefits: Experienced increased performance results, lowered costs with the elimination of licensing costs and easy-to-manage maintenance for its solution
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.
Infoplex is one of Australia's fastest growing and most dynamic IT managed service providers. Based in St. Leonards, Australia, it specializes in delivering an innovative and diversified range of services to both private and public sector clients. Offerings include on-demand storage, disaster recovery, and collocation services as well as software as a service (SaaS). Currently, the Infoplex Group has 55 employees in the firm's three functional divisions: Infoplex Managed Services, Infoplex Procurement Services, and ThinkSecure Security Consulting. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Leighton Holdings Limited, the publicly listed parent company of Australia's largest project development and contracting group.
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: learndirect provides delivers online education, training, and advice for two million users, facilitating over 50,000 sessions and 10,000 new course enrollments per week. With systems needing to be available 24 hours per day, 365 days per week, there was no room for outages or failure. A reliable, high performance system was needed to replace learndirect's Visual Basic-based legacy system, which was outdated and costly to support. A requirement to work with the source code and to adopt the most cost effective solution led learndirect to open source solutions from Red Hat.
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, JBoss Application Server 4.0.3, Hibernate 3.0.5, JBoss Clustering and current investigating JBossCache 1.4.1
Hardware: 4 x IBM Blade Servers
Services: Gold-Level JBoss Subscription, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Support, JBoss Training
Benefits: Immediate savings from choosing open source software with zero licencing costs. In addition, learndirect could easily scaled out its architecture as needed with no more incremental licensing costs An increase in system performance and stability with an application server which outperformed its proprietary competitors in extensive testing. The new JBoss-based learndirect system is currently running at 99.989% uptime Rapid development and time to market, thanks to the transparency of the software's source code
In terms of performance levels, JBoss Application Server actually came out as the fastest and this was a key factor in our decision as service levels to users are of upmost importance. As the evaluation continued we soon realised that JBoss competed extremely well with the proprietary alternatives and when we considered that scaling JBoss out as far as we liked would not create any extra licence costs on our bottom line, the decision was a very easy one to make – we chose open source from JBoss,” concluded Mather.
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.
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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Red Hat Enterprise Linux selected for reliability, high performance, support and opportunity for reduced TCO
Raleigh, NC – June 9, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Italian Ministry of Justice has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for its web-based Civil Justice applications, including those used for general cognizance, for civil execution and for the offices of the Small Claims courts. Applications based on Red Hat's flagship platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, are installed at the district level and used throughout all judicial offices operated by the Italian Ministry of Justice.
Raleigh, NC – June 3, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Cybercity, a leading Danish broadband supplier and part of the Telenor group, has chosen to use the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform for system integration and middleware. The JBoss solution is expected to significantly reduce Cybercity's total cost of ownership (TCO).In selecting an SOA solution, Cybercity initially evaluated Oracle Fusion, BEA WebLogic and JBoss solutions.
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.
Red Hat middleware platform enables development and deployment of services in service-oriented architecture, offering enhanced productivity and system reliability
Raleigh NC – February 19, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the National Institute of Design and Mint in Italy (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, IPZS) has selected the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to develop and implement software services in a SOA environment. With JBoss solutions, IPZS has significantly increased the productivity and reliability of its systems and has gained important business and economic advantages.
Corte dei Conti relies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to safeguard public finance and maintain jurisdictional order in Italy
Raleigh NC – January 15, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Corte dei Conti, an Italian government institution that safeguards public finance and guarantees the respect of jurisdictional order in Italy, has selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its server farm, consisting mainly of HP BL20 G3 and BL20 G2 blade servers. Corte dei Conti's Red Hat solution is integrated with multiple different internal systems, including Oracle software largely used in the Court's IT system.
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.
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.
City's IT system benefits from stability, compatibility and cost reduction with Red Hat and JBoss solutions
Raleigh, NC — September 19, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the City of Recife's Computer Technology Organization (Emprel) in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil is experiencing long-term success with Red Hat solutions. Emprel first selected Red Hat Linux in 1998, has since migrated to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its critical applications and currently utilizes the full suite of Red Hat solutions.
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.
Food retailer selects Red Hat Enterprise Linux as platform of choice; adds Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Global File System and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Raleigh, NC — September 12, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Axfood, one of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia, has decided to standardize its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Axfood will use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a platform for its strategic SAP environment and will also use the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform in the company's core production environment.
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.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Application Server create ideal combination for SAP and other business-critical applications
RALEIGH, NC — August 14, 2025 — Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swisscom IT Services, a subsidiary of the biggest Swiss telecommunications provider, is relying on the full suite of Red Hat solutions for its standardized Linux infrastructure. Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, JBoss Enterprise Platform and additional Red Hat technologies are currently used by Swisscom IT Services as the platform for its "Simply Managed Linux" (SIMLUX) infrastructure, the highly flexible and effective infrastructure for the company's data centres. Using SIMLUX, Swisscom supplies outsourcing services to more than 50 customers.
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.
AIS turns to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its Value-added Service Control Point System
Raleigh, NC - April 3, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited (AIS), a mobile communications company in Thailand, has chosen Red Hat for its reliable, high-performing and cost-effective solutions.
Kingfisher, Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, switches to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its 240 Castorama and Brico-Dépôt stores.
RALEIGH, NC - February 20, 2025 - Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Kingfisher Group, Europe's leading home improvement retail group and the third largest in the world, is migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Oracle databases for all 240 of its Castorama and Brico Dépôt stores because of Red Hat's superior stability, service and support. Red Hat has enabled the company to reduce the number of servers it requires by half and make a return on its investment in just eight months. At the same time, Kingfisher is benefiting from a ten-fold increase in performance.
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.
deRemate.com implements Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform for cost savings, reliability and scalability
Raleigh NC – March 25, 2025 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that deRemate.com, a leading online trade community with presence in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, has migrated to Red Hat and JBoss solutions to create an in-house-controlled portal to enable the payment of purchases completed through the company's online retail sites throughout the region. Using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Dell PowerEdge hardware, the company has achieved cost savings, reliability, ease of implementation and scalability.
Opportunity: The aim was to free CAMIF from overly-complex nested systems and come up with a more efficient information system which was structured
by business activity, thus enabling more transparent and targeted intervention.
Solution: CAMIF has built its technical base using Open Source components and can now offer business applications as both development frameworks and cross-functional services. Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Server, JBoss Hibernate, JBoss Rules, JBoss Messaging, JBoss Eclipse IDE
Benefits: There are currently three application groups that benefit from the new architecture, which now integrates open source solutions, including several modules from the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Project summary: The CAMIF Group, a multi-specialist distributor and the third largest French mail-order company, offers a range that extends from household appliances and personal equipment to supplying local authorities and from home furnishings to fine foods, without forgetting financial products. In 2003, the company took the step of progressively decommissioning their twenty-year-old HP3000 servers and completely revising the software architecture that was in place.
Submitted by: Junwon Lee, Manager, Convergence and Internet R&D Center, SK Telecom
Industry: Telecommunications
Geography: Korea/USA
Overview
SK Telecom (www.sktelecom.com), Korea's leading wireless telecommunications services provider, and Helio (www.helio.com), an advanced U.S. mobile service provider, were selected for their use of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss jBPM to build and streamline its wireless data portal (WDP). After deploying Red Hat solutions, Helio quickly experienced cost reductions. Operational savings amounted to 50 percent monthly and the company experienced a 90 percent reduction in commercial software and licensing costs.
Category: Increased ROI Winner: Alintec Industry: Tech and Government Geography: Milan, Italy
Overview
Alintec (www.alintec.it) (previously Politecnico Innovazione), a non-profit consortium promoting technological innovation within SMEs and public institutions and technology transfer between academia and industry in Europe, was selected following the high return on investment (ROI) it achieved after the implementation of multiple JBoss technologies within its Internet-based Library Management System (LMS) for the Province of Bergamo. The JBoss-based solution increased library loan rates by more than 25 percent and the frequency of inter-library loans by over 30 percent. Overall, it has positively impacted the end-user experience in terms of speed and ease-of-use.
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.
Category: Migration Winner: Sakonnet Submitted by: David Renton, Vice President, Product Delivery at Sakonnet Industry: Oil and Gas Geography: New York, London, Rio de Janeiro
Overview
Used JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to develop a scalable, performance-driving, well-supported solution that provided ease-of-use, cost savings, and transparency for Sakonnet’s energy-trading solutions. With JBoss Application Server, Sakonnet discovered a solution that combined low-cost, quality software and reliable support to fit into its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) strategy of frequent application upgrades and top-notch support.
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
Opportunity: To replace costly proprietary software with reliable open source solutions to reduce acquisition and ongoing costs for the organization’s IT department.
Migration Path: Proprietary software and hardware, including Hewlett Packard PA-RISC chip-architecture, HP-UX Unix operating system, Oracle database and BEA WebLogic Server, to open source solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Solution:
Hardware: HP Blade System C-class servers with 300 AMD Opteron Dual Core CPUs
Operating System Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Benefits: Experienced reduced TCO, increased reliability, enhanced performance, freedom from vendor lock-in, and expects estimated cost savings of approximately €20 million Euros over the next five years
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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: 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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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
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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