King's College London Dental Institute Builds Award Winning Virtual Campus Experience on JBoss Enterprise Middleware





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Customer: King's College London

Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Red Hat Advanced Business Partner: Tier 2 Consulting

Business Challenge: To provide online learning materials and assessment tools virtually to dental students through a flexible, secure and cost-effective technology infrastructure with optimal functionality

Migration Path: The application was developed from the ground up using JBoss

Solution: The IVIDENT project (International Virtual Dental School, now known as UDENTE - Universal Dental E-Learning http://www.udente.org) is a flexible learning platform (FLP), conceived to deliver quality assured content and web-based education tools to dental students. The platform is built on Red Hat's open source middleware portfolio including: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Developer Studio

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, and jBPM

Hardware: Dell Poweredge 1435 and 2x Dual Core AMD

Benefits: To create an award-winning virtual experience for students, to improve the educational experience for both students and tutors, potentially improve ROI while reducing costs, to increase flexibility, interoperability and ease of maintenance.

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Telecinco Migrates UNIX Systems and Java Platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware



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Customer: Telecinco

Industry: Broadcast Media

Geography: Spain

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

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

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

Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers

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

Benefits: Telecinco benefits from a high-performance, highly reliable, flexible platform based on industry standards and has reduced its operating costs by 33 percent
“Our decision to migrate to Red Hat solutions has been one of the best technology decisions in recent years. The project is aligned with a wider company strategy and has put us ahead of development in the market.”
-- María Caldés, Director of Engineering and Systems, Telecinco

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Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Powers Mission-Critical Group Policy Management System on JBoss Enterprise Middleware







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Customer: Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Limited (SUD Life)

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Partner: Arion

Business Challenge: To design a Group Policy Management System that would deliver high operational efficiency, reduce operational costs and high ROI with no compromise on performance, scalability, security, and flexibility

Solution: SUD Life designed its Group Policy Management System on open source Java J2EE software infrastructure with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform as its middleware solution

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, SQL Server database

Hardware: Intel xeon processor-based servers from HCL and IBM

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs by 70 percent, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, improved business agility

“Through the use of open source J2EE technology and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have achieved nearly 70 percent savings in costs, as well as greater operational efficiencies compared to traditional approaches. The solution has also made our business agile, enabling us to react quickly to the changing business needs giving us a competitive edge.” -- Harnath Babu, head of Information Technology, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance


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People’s Group Powers Its Critical Mailing and Infrastructure Systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux









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Customer: People’s Group

Industry: Conglomerate (Education and Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, and Real Estate).

Geography: Pan India

Red Hat Partner: Keen & Able Computers Private Limited

Business Challenge: To design a centralized, secure, controllable, stable, and high-performing mailing solution and other infrastructure solutions that are cost effective to co-exist with the existing infrastructure so as to build an effective communication tool within the departments and among the students, agencies and the external world

Solution: People’s Group chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with other open source systems, to implement its mailing, firewall, proxy, DNS, and other solutions such as Mass SMS solutions, bandwidth sharing/load balancing, backup and failover solutions, and antivirus and filter applications.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other supported open source components, including Postfix MTA, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database Server, Squid Proxy Server, Bind DNS Server, iptables.

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from HP, HCL, Wipro.

Benefits: Reduced IT costs, simplified management, easy systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, better productivity, reduced redundancy, higher efficiency and security, and enabled no dependency on other third party vendorsroup

“Red Hat solutions have helped us to build an ideal infrastructure platform for tomorrow, taking our business to the next level. Today we have complete peace of mind as its has brought stability, higher performance, economics gains apart from cost savings and an ability to scale to keep pace with our rapid growth. Our dependency on these solutions has grown so much that we can’t even think of working without them.”
- Atul Kashyap, Senior General Manager, Information Technology & Communication, People’s Group


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IBM Launches Development & Test Cloud Utilizing Red Hat Technology

 
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Get the firsthand account about how IBM utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a platform in its new cloud computing service from Maria Azua, Vice President of Cloud Computing Enablement at IBM.

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iGATE Powers Its Mission-Critical ManageMe Application on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux



FAST FACTS

Customer: iGATE Corporation

Industry: Information Technology

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To replace its outdated iQuest management tool and design a more reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective project management system, which could scale to meet the organization's needs and free it from proprietary vendor lock-in.

Migration Path: IBM WebSphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Solution: Designed ManageMe application running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Oracle Database, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, JBoss jBPM

Hardware: Intel processor-based x86 servers from Dell

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, and obtained the ability to achieve 100 percent system availability
“The success of this initiative has helped us to innovate further and choose the most appropriate set of technologies for our business needs. Open source solutions in general, and Red Hat in particular, will now be adopted as the foundation of our long-term IT strategy. We are confident that Red Hat solutions will enable us to serve our customers effectively every day.” - Chella Namasivayam M., vice president and chief information officer,
iGATE

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NYSE Euronext Standardizes on JBoss Enterprise Middleware


 
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Customer: NYSE Euronext

Industry: Financial trading

Geography: Global

Business challenge: Needed a single, common, and flexible platform that would simplify NYSE Euronext's application development, deployment, and management processes while still meeting mission-critical requirements for reliability, performance, and scalability

Migration path: Multiple application servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and a legacy portal server to JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: x86-based servers and blades

Benefits: Experienced 50-60 percent cost savings; simplified architecture, management, deployment, and usability by moving to JBoss Enterprise Middleware; increased performance, speed of deployment, flexibility, reliability, access to support, and control of the infrastructure; improved regulation and security; streamlined processes; reduced failovers and development lifecycles
Pull Quote: “We've been running mission-critical applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for a long time. It was that experience and those results that led us to consider JBoss Enterprise Middleware, and we're satisfied, and not surprised, knowing that Red Hat's middleware solutions are as enterprise-class as its platform solutions.”
- Brian Clark, chief software architect, NYSE Euronext

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Nationwide Mutual Insurance: JBoss Innovation Award Winner

2010 JBoss Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem


FAST FACTS


Company:
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

Industry: Financial services

Geography:
Columbus, OH

Business Challenge:
Nationwide needed a cost-effective and highly-available architecture that would scale to enable the company's rapid growth. The platform also needed to maintain Nationwide’s high customer satisfaction standards while improving availability, reducing infrastructure costs, and decreasing management complexity for business-critical applications used by Nationwide agents.

Solution: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

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


Benefits:
Nationwide was able to reduce the total time it takes to restart server clusters by 35 percent, and achieve faster time to deployment and problem resolution by identifying and fixing two long-term bugs in its architecture that had affected scale and memory utilization, saving hundreds of hours of IT time.

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Red Hat Delivers High Performance and Unmatched Scalability for Cleartrip



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Customer: Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited

Industry: Travel

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Design an IT architecture that is scalable, high-performing, reliable, flexible, and cost-effective and can handle rapid business growth and ensure high availability for thousands of transactions per day, 365 days per year

Solution: Designed the entire IT infrastructure on open source solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, MySQL and Oracle DB, Tomcat and Ruby on Rails application servers, Apache web server

Hardware: HP Blade Intel x86 servers (~60 servers), HP / EMC storage, Dell and IBM Intel x86 rack servers

Benefits: Achieved system reliability, performance gains, system flexibility, and unmatched scalability—all at a fraction of the cost—while standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

“Red Hat solutions enabled us to leverage IT in a strategic manner. They imparted higher business capabilities to handle the aggressive business growth in a smooth manner and allowed us to expand to newer markets. I am confident that Red Hat will help us to become a great brand to reckon with in the APAC region.”

Sanjeev Sreedharan, Vice President, Software Engineering, Cleartrip Travel Services Private Limited


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Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Modernizes Ticketing System and Train Enquiry System with Red Hat Solutions



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Customer: Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC)

Industry: Government - Travel & Tourism Department

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Needed to modernize ticketing and passenger services for the world's busiest railway network and required an operating system to run multiple applications across various business units with a common, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective IT architecture with no vendor lock-in

Solution: Implemented its mailing system and other enterprise-class applications, including Integrated Train Enquiry System, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform; these solutions enabled IRCTC to build cost-effective IT solutions while also making them reliable, flexible, and scalable

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including Linux Virtual Server (LVS), clustering, and file system technologies, Oracle database server (600 GB size with 10 million users), IBM WebSphere Server

Hardware: HP Proliant DL 580 G4, HP Blade 465C Servers (Total RHEL Servers = Approx. 50)


“We look to Red Hat as our trusted technology advisor for any kind of enterprise application implementation and we place its solutions firmly within our radar for future deployments.”

-Sanjay Agrawal, general manager, IT Services, IRCTC


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Just Dial Powers its Mission-Critical Intranet and Extranet Applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Carved Out Costs

FAST FACTS

Customer: Just Dial Private Limited

Industry: Technology: eCommerce – Local Search

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design reliable, stable, high-performance, and cost-effective IT systems that can scale with business growth

Solution: Migrated Microsoft DOS-based client server system to a web-based system based on an open architecture.

Migration Path: Microsoft DOS-based platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Apache Web Server, MySQL Database (Approx. size is in the range of 50 to 100 GB)

Hardware: 215 Intel Xeon processor-based Dell 2950 PowerEdge servers

Benefits: Increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, and increased scalability, performance, and reliability


“Our business has always been continuously expanding and without open source in general, and Red Hat in particular, we could not have scaled with that growth.”
-Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Chief Technology Officer, Just Dial


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SBI Life Insurance Reduces IT Costs, Increases Performance and Generates Value to Business through its Use of Red Hat Solutions



FAST FACTS

Customer: SBI Life Insurance Company Limited

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To design reliable, stable, high-performance, cost-effective IT systems with substantial longevity

Solution: Migrated highly critical applications and databases to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to increase flexibility and performance while reducing costs

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including integrated virtualization, clustering and file system technologies, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based servers from HP and IBM

Benefits: Increased flexibility decreased IT costs, increased scalability and performance


“Adoption of Red Hat and open standards has enabled us to mitigate the risk of proprietary lock-in and has led to cost reduction and improved interoperability.”
-Mr. Bhaskar Jutti, chief information officer, SBI Life Insurance.

"We have been using Red Hat Enterprise Linux for mission critical Applications and have been satisfied users of the product. Reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in implementing the applications in this environment has encouraged us to extend this environment for other applications”
-Mani RVS, Head – Information Systems Group, SBI Life Insurance


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Etisalat Sri Lanka Transforms I.T. Infrastructure with Scalability and Cost Savings of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization



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Customer: Etisalat Lanka (Pvt.) Limited

Industry: Telecommunications

Geography: Sri Lanka

Business Challenge: To set up a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective IT infrastructure to support the organization's objective of rapidly increasing its telecommunications operations in Sri Lanka

Solution: Etisalat Sri Lanka selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to resolve its business challenges by providing on-demand business scalability with significant cost savings and enhanced operational efficiencies

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; guest operating systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Edition; Microsoft SQL Database Server 2005 and 2008

Hardware: IBM and HP Intel Xeon processor-based Blade Servers (2 Quad Core and 8 GB / 24 GB memory)

Benefits: Achieved significant cost and time savings; gained the ability for real-time provisioning of servers; improved operational efficiencies and development of a highly consistent and scalable virtualized IT infrastructure; reduced power, space, and management overhead costs; gained significant internal
customer satisfaction

“Etisalat Sri Lanka experienced an increase in stability, flexibility, and scalability by using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. We were able to reduce our footprint from 40 to six servers, and witnessed a drastic reduction in TCO, enabling our IT team to concentrate more on improving the current infrastructure.”

-Chandrakanth Jayasinghe, Head of IT Systems, Etisalat Sri Lanka


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



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

Industry: eCommerce – online financial transaction

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To consolidate hardware resources to build a platform that is flexible, secure, scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective

Solution: Migrated business-critical Card Management application from Microsoft Windows to a virtualized platform on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, SQL Server database, Microsoft Windows Server operating system

Hardware: Intel Quad-core Nehalem processor-based servers from Dell

Benefits: Achieved increased flexibility and choice by freeing the organization from vendor lock-in, decreased hardware and power costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, improved server utilization, and improved business agility

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization not only reduced our operational costs, but more importantly made our business more agile to rapidly respond to ever-changing business needs. It also helped us to build an ideal infrastructure platform for the future.”

Ashish Mehta, director, IT & Infrastructure for Asia Pacific & Middle East, Euronet Worldwide Inc


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Eveready powers mission-critical enterprise resource planning project with Red Hat Enterprise Linux



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Customer: Eveready Industries India Limited

Industry: Manufacturing

Geography: Pan India

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

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

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

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

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


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

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


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Hikal Powers Mission-Critical Enterprise Resource Planning Solution with Red Hat Enterprise Linux



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Customer: Hikal Limited

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: Needed to use technology to reduce operational cost, and deliver a sturdy operating system for Hikal's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and BIS applications

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

Migration Path: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.2 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform 5.1

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle DB (Approx. total database size is 1 TB)

Hardware: Intel Xeon processor-based IBM System x servers

Benefits: ERP project completed in a record time of close to six months, complete freedom to add multiple applications to infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and clustering technology delivers continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues, has helped in implementing the latest available features of Oracle E-Business Suite


“Our Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems have delivered continuous uptime with zero maintenance issues. Red Hat was the perfect balance as it combined the reliability of UNIX with a clear performance and security edge over proprietary systems.”

Falgun Shukla, senior general manager, IT, Hikal Ltd.


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Great Offshore Ltd. Reduces Costs, Increases Performance, and Scales with Business Growth Through a Combination of Red Hat and SAP Solutions



FAST FACTS

Customer: Great Offshore Limited

Industry: Utilities: Oil & Gas: Offshore

Geography: Mumbai, India

Business Challenge: To design a robust, stable, high-performing, secure, and cost-effective Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system based on a combination of SAP and IBM DB2 technologies

Solution: Great Offshore selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the operating platform for its business-critical SAP and IBM DB2-based Enterprise Resource Planning system

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and clustering technologies, SAP Business Suite (150 users) with modules such as Financials & Controlling (FICO), Sales & Distribution (S&D), Material Management (MM), Project System (PS), and Human Resources (HR), Database DB2 (Approx. avg. size of the database is 200 GB)

Hardware: 8 Intel Xeon processor-based IBM System x servers

Benefits: Decreased IT costs, simplified management, reduced systems maintenance, increased scalability and performance, and increased hardware platform flexibility


“The SAP Enterprise Resource Planning system is our core IT system, and its base infrastructure needed to be robust and stable. In Red Hat, with its innovative and state-of-the-art technology, we found the right partner with which we can build a top-class infrastructure at a significantly lower total-cost-of-ownership.”

-Deepak Sachdeva, senior manager IT, Great Offshore Ltd.


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Corenet relies on IBM Tivoli Netcool software and Red Hat to help it deliver competitive service levels.

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Customer: Corenet

Industry: Telecommunications

Deployment country: Finland

Solution: Autonomic Computing, Business Resiliency, Linux, Managing Business Infrastructure, Service Management, Systems & Network Management

IBM Business Partner: Red Hat

Overview Corenet Oy specializes in network monitoring and management services, as well as data communications solutions for enterprises, government bodies and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) integrators.

Business need:
Challenged to monitor various IT infrastructure components in its customers’ networks, Corenet needed to consolidate its management information so it could resolve problems more quickly. As a result, the company hoped to provide faster service to customers and become more competitive within its native country of Finland.

Solution:
Corenet deployed IBM Tivoli® Netcool® software to consolidate, correlate, filter and enrich events so that its staff could focus only on relevant events. It uses IBM Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition software to perform automatic root-cause analysis based on network topology, and it relies on IBM Tivoli Netcool/Proviso software to handle performance management.

Benefits:
Enables quicker information retrieval with a single, consolidated browser-based interface; Avoids heavy software modifications with off-the-shelf type functionality; Cost-effectively and quickly develops solutions to address customer needs and integrate with external systems; Helps Corenet provide faster services to customers

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Bright Horizons Automates Requisition Process and Integrates with Existing IT Architecture with help of HJB Consulting and Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware



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Companies: Bright Horizons Family Solutions; HJB Consulting

Industry: Child Care; Technology Consulting

Geography: United States

Business Challenge: Needed to deploy a Business Process Management solution to transform a paper-based capital requisition work flow into a scalable and automated system. The Business Process Management solution needed to fully integrate with the existing Oracle Application Server and Portal running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, all within an exceedingly tight budget

Software: JBoss Enterprise Framework; JBoss jBPM, utilizing jBPM Process Definition Language (jPDL); Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Oracle Database 10g

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers with EMC Celerra NS40 storage arrays

Benefits: Accelerated the requisition cycle from weeks to hours, provided senior management with better visibility into the capital expenditure pipeline, enabled requesters real time access to approval status via portal interface and through email notifications, saw 100 percent user adoption in the first month of operation

“This application will work for many other decentralized processes within our organization that require senior level review and approvals. We already have three to four projects lined up that will save Bright Horizons time and money.” – Nancy Johnson, Director of Supply Management, Bright Horizons


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

"arrowhead" Trading System Enhances Speed, Reliability, Scalability and Transparency with Combination of Red Hat and Fujitsu Solutions

RALEIGH, N.C., Mar 22, 2025 -- Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Linux was selected by Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) as the standard operating platform for its next-generation "arrowhead" trading system. Developed by TSE and Red Hat strategic partner FUJITSU LIMITED (Fujitsu), the "arrowhead" platform was designed to accelerate TSE's order response and information distribution speeds to bring a new level of execution to the Tokyo stock market.

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



FAST FACTS

Customer: New India Assurance

Industry: Insurance

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To reduce dependency on proprietary systems, and create a scalable, cost-effective, reliable, and secure IT infrastructure for deployment across thousands of locations

Solution: Migrated business-critical insurance, payroll, and overall IT infrastructure from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform and utilized Red Hat Consulting and Red Hat Training to ensure a smooth transition to the new company-standard system

Migration Path: SCO UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including clustering and file system technologies, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Red Hat Directory Server

Hardware: Intel Xeon Quad Core processor-based servers including; IBM System x346, HP Proliant DL580

Benefits: Increased hardware and application vendor flexibility by eliminating proprietary lock-in and increased ability to scale with low total cost of ownership (TCO) across distributed offices

“Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been deployed in over one thousand offices and has given us a competitive advantage by decreasing annual IT expenditures.”

-Asha Nair, general manager, NIA


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Manx Telecom Standardizes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Superior Performance and Availability of Mission-Critical Systems



FAST FACTS

Customer: Manx Telecom – part of O2 and the Telefónica group of companies

Industry: Data Centre & Global Telecommunications Solutions

Geography: Isle of Man

Business Challenge: Needed a reliable, high-performing, flexible platform to deliver an optimized enterprise platform to customers

Migration path: Microsoft Server 2003 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including clustering and file system technologies

Solution: Utilized Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, after migrating from Microsoft Server 2003, to provide its customers with a cost-effective solution with 99.999% uptime

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, including built-in clustering and file system technologies, Red Hat Training, and Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: HP, Cisco, Nokia Checkpoint, Zeus ZXTM

Benefits: Achieved superior performance on the managed service platforms. Delivered enhanced stability, resiliency, and flexibility of platform equipment and by doing so, enabled the company to offer cost-effective, flexible solutions to its customers

"In the telecommunications world, users expect ‘dial-tone’ reliability and a user experience that is second to none. We were impressed by Red Hat's reliability, ease-of-use and speed of applications on the platform that completely outperformed the previous solution. We have also realised numerous savings in terms of power, hardware support costs, and licensing costs."

--Stephen Trimble, Enterprise Hosting & Solutions Technical Manager, Manx Telecom


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux powers 100% availability and impressive cost savings for SPARQ Solutions



FAST FACTS

Customer: SPARQ Solutions, ENERGEX, Ergon Energy

Industry: Utilities: Energy and Technology

Geography: Australia: South East Queensland

Business Challenge: To replace its end-of-life proprietary system with a stable and reliable platform that facilitates lower-cost hardware and ongoing savings on platform maintenance

Migration Path: HP Alpha Tru64 UNIX servers to JBoss Enterprise Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on HP ProLiant servers

Solution: Australian energy company reduced costs by more than $1 million by migrating systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and web applications to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, WebSCM web-based outage management application, Red Hat Training

Hardware: 50 Intel Xeon processor-based HP ProLiant DL380 servers

Benefits: Reduced hardware costs by approximately $1 million, reduced licensing costs by approximately $300,000, and achieved 100 percent availability over 12 months

“Migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux saved SPARQ Solutions $300,000 on licensing costs for its outage management system, and contributed to a savings of $1 million that was related to the purchase of commodity based servers.”

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Swedish Internet Leader, Voddler, to Standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization



The company selects Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite for its business-critical systems

RALEIGH, NC – March 10, 2025 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Swedish Internet company Voddler has standardized its movie service on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization. Voddler has also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Network Satellite as the basis for its new infrastructure, providing the company with a centralized and scalable server platform.

Voddler offers its customers a wide variety of movies on-demand, and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization will enable the company to virtualize its web servers responsible for the movie service and the database servers containing all of its film titles.

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ResMed Breathes Easy with Impressive Cost Savings with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware



FAST FACTS

Customer: ResMed

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Australia

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

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

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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

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

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PG Telco Keeps Rural Customers Connected and Protected Using Zmanda and Red Hat Solutions





FAST FACTS

Customer: Prairie Grove Telephone Company (PG Telco)

Red Hat Partner: Zmanda

Industry: Telecommunications (PG Telco); Backup and Archival Software (Zmanda)

Geography: Prairie Grove, Arkansas (PG Telco); Sunnyvale, CA (Zmanda)

Business Challenge: Regional rural telecom company needed an enterprise-class backup and recovery system to ensure business continuity, and a reliable and scalable operating system that would prevent the servers from crashing

Software: Amanda Enterprise 3.0 open source backup and recovery solution from Zmanda; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Hardware: Intel-based Dell PowerEdge servers, Dell EqualLogic Enterprise-Class Virtualized iSCSI SAN

Migration path: CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Zmanda’s Amanda Enterprise ensures that PG Telco data is regularly backed up and archived; the rock-solid reliability, stability, and enterprise-class support for the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system ensures that servers running Amanda as well as other mission-critical applications are always available

Moving to Red Hat Enterprise Linux has made the biggest difference in our ability to keep our servers up and available. There’s nothing wrong with running CentOS at home. But for business? No. We need the enterprise support. From now on, everything will be Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”
-Scott Griffin, systems engineer, PG Telco


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Bilcare research cost-effectively scales for Business Growth with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization



FAST FACTS

Customer: Bilcare Research

Red Hat Partner: Taashee Linux Services

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


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



FAST FACTS

Customer: GE Money Bank

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Czech Republic

Red Hat Premier Partner: Enlogit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Carnation Auto Reduces Costs and Scales with Business Growth Through a Combination of Red Hat and SAP Solutions




Customer: Carnation Auto

Red Hat Business Partner: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

Industry: Automotive Service and Sales

Geography: Pan India

Business Challenge: To set up a centralised IT system and solution that functions as a single window to address the various needs of stakeholders (e.g., customers, business partners, and employees of Carnation)

Solution: Tata Consultancy Services leveraged its automotive industry expertise to design, deploy and manage a solution based on SAP Business Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization running on HP ProLiant servers. Applications in the SAP Business Suite will help Carnation Auto gather information about customers, sales, and budgets - as it builds a truly unique auto services business.

Software: SAP Business Suite applications comprising DBM (Dealer Business Management), BI (Business Intelligence), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Financials, Sales and Distribution, Human Resources, and Material Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Cluster Suite

Hardware: HP ProLiant BL 460c G6 servers, EVA 4400 SAN Storage, Cisco NW solution at Data Center, MSL Tape Backup

Benefits: Achieved a highly cost-effective and secure system based on open standards that scales and performs to meet the increasing demands of the business, enhanced process efficiencies, leading to more rapid access to business intelligence

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“We considered a number of operating systems as the platform for our business-critical SAP applications, and after much testing and evaluation, we selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform on HP ProLiant servers because the combination met all of our requirements and provided the most overall value, stability, and performance."
Mohit Agarwal,chief information officer, Carnation Auto

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

Flexibility, cost savings and compatibility drive selection of Red Hat as its enabler for customer-focused technology development

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Jordan's Security Depositary Center (SDC), a non-profit public utility institution that oversees the registration and deposit of securities, has implemented Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation to its open source strategy.

SDC is currently implementing a number of e-services applications within an open source environment, including an e-payment system and the SDC Portal, which offers a wide range of electronic services. These services include enhanced account viewing, public data, statistical data, electronic initial public offering (e-IPO) and mailbox services.

In addition to the traditional benefits of working with open source, such as access to code, cost reduction and flexibility, SDC recognised the value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux interoperability as it deployed and developed with a range of hardware, including IBM and Dell. SDC has 20 x86 servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that drive a range of applications, including mail systems, its web portal and intranet.

Key to SDC's technology agility and management is the ability to manage its entire Linux environment from one console. Red Hat Network Satellite allows SDC to investigate and fix technical issues in a timely manner and with internal resources - assuring consistent run rates and performance.

“The main advantage to using open source and working with Red Hat is the flexibility to develop and maintain our technology assets internally,” said Samir Jaradat, CEO of SDC. “Red Hat not only saves us money, but it also provides us with a level of technology sophistication and interoperability that gives us the tools to develop solutions that directly meet the needs of our business.”

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Arabian Automobiles transforms its business technology infrastructure with Itanium® 2–based HP Integrity servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux



Intel and HP Customer Success Story:

Customer: Arabian Automobiles

Business Challenge: Arabian Automobiles needed to transform its business technology infrastructure to support double-digit growth. This required increased performance, reliability, and scalability while adhering to open-standards based architectural principles

Solution: Following internal architectural principles and based on the recommendations of HP Services and Intel, Arabian Automobiles implemented Intel® Itanium processor–based HP Integrity servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux at the database tier and HP ProLiant server blades based on Intel® Xeon® processors at the application tier

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle E-Business Suite: 38 modules with 20 additional major vertical extensions that support all business units, Oracle 9i RAC

Hardware: HP Integrity rx7640 Servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors, HP BL480c Server Blades with Intel Xeon processors, HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrary

Benefits: Improved customer satisfaction by 15 percent, increased process automation to 80 percent from 40 percent, improved availability to 99.2 percent from, simplified management of IT with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on standards-based Integrity servers with Intel Itanium 2 processors. This provided a reliable, high-performance, and highly scalable infrastructure for Oracle® E-Business Suite and the integrated application modules running all of the company’s business units

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Background: One of the largest automobile distributors in the Middle East and the sole distributor for Nissan, Infiniti, and Renault in Dubai and the Northern Emirates. The flagship company of the AW Rostamani Group, Arabian Automobiles believes its greatest asset is ensuring that every customer can leave any of its company showrooms with confidence that they are receiving the world’s finest driving technology backed by a level of service and support second to none.

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Farmalink readies for continued growth with HP Integrity Server Blades and Red Hat Enterprise Linux



HP Customer Success Story:

Company: FarmaLink

Industry: Healthcare: Prescription Drug Administrator

At a Glance: Datacenter transformation using HP Integrity server blades and Red Hat Enterprise Linux for databases; evaluation, prescription administration and analysis system

Objective: Establish a flexible, adaptable infrastructure that can continue operating while handling the exponential growth in the volume of information administered and accommodating the most dynamic business conditions. Maintain system availability in real time during all types of working situations. Increase redundancy and business continuity.

Solution: The core architecture of the Farmalink system is made up of mission-critical HP Integrity server blades with Intel processors running Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform connected to an HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4000).

Hardware: 4 HP Integrity BL860c server blades, HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, HP StorageWorks 4000 Enterprise Virtual Array, 3 HP ProLiant server blades

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle 10g Database

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“HP Integrity BL860c server blades with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle allow us to offer highly reliable services in real time.”
− Pablo Giraud, Systems Manager, Farmalink


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ITI Neovision Deploys Red Hat Virtualization Technology on HP BladeSystem to Improve Hardware Efficiency and Achieve Cost Savings





FAST FACTS

Company: ITI Neovision

Industry: Broadcast media

Geography: EMEA, Poland

Business Partner: Atom-Tech, Red Hat Advanced Business Partner in Poland recommended Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the solution

Business Challenge: ITI Neovision looked to replace its enterprise platform solution, with a virtualized environment that could be supported by local teams.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization and Red Hat Cluster Suite

Hardware: HP BladeSystem BL460c

Migration Path: Gentoo Linux to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: ITI Neovision has deployed a stable, reliable and officially supported platform which ensures availability of the company’s broadcast services. Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtualization has significantly improved hardware management in terms of full utilization of available servers. Red Hat virtualization can easily scale to accommodate the demand for new servers. The company has also achieved significant cost savings and obtained all the required components in one solution.

"With Red Hat we obtained everything we needed - operating system, virtualization, firewall etc. - in one package whereas with proprietary vendors we would have to buy everything separately. We have achieved significant cost savings by selecting the Red Hat solution.”
- Maciej Hajduk, IT Infrastructure Manager, ITI Neovision.


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Alpine Electronics USA plans sales for next-generation mobile media technology with IBM Cognos and SAP



FAST FACTS

Company: Alpine Electronics

Industry: Electronics: Consumer

Geography: United States

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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Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security



Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security

FAST FACTS

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

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Sheela Foam Doubles System Performance, Slashes Costs, and Reduces Processing Time by 25% by Migrating Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel



FAST FACTS

Customer: Sheela Foam

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

Hardware: Dell 2950 PowerEdge server, Intel Quad Core Xeon-based E5410 x 2 (Dual CPU) Processors

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


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Whole Foods Market: 2009 Red Hat Innovator of the Year



2009 RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER: MANAGEMENT EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR

COMPANY: Whole Foods Market

CATEGORY: Management Excellence

INDUSTRY: Consumer

GEOGRAPHY: North America

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Needed a cost-effective operating platform and complementary management solution that would scale with the company's growth while increasing the security, manageability, and availability of business-critical applications

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting

HARDWARE: 75 HP x86 servers, 16 virtual servers

BENEFITS: Obtained an easy-to-use and reliable systems management solution that enabled increased productivity and reduced costs by increasing system administrator efficiency; Experienced increased performance and internal-user satisfaction of homegrown applications, including order processing applications.

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Guangdong Telecom chooses Red Hat Enterprise Linux based on Intel to power its IDC

FAST FACTS:

Company: Guangdong Telecom: BizNavigator

Geography: APAC: China

Industry: Telecom

Business Challenge: With continuous development of the BizNavigator platform, Guangdong Telecom needed to expand the capacity of the Internet Data Center (IDC) deployed in Guangdong, so that it would support more than 10 function modules, including Office Automation, Inventory Management, Network-based Anti-virus System and Enterprise Messaging

Solution: Guangdong Telecom deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform on Dell PowerEdge 2950MLK servers based on Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2950MLK servers based on Quad-core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series

Benefits: Reduced the probability of single point of failure, and improved the availability and manageability of the entire cluster system; saved even greater energy consumptions, and hence would reduce operational cost.

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



FAST FACTS

Company: Banco Pastor

Industry: Financial Services Banking

Geography:Spain

Business Challenge: Improve payroll and human resource systems management and achieve cost savings performance improvements with an upgrade of the email infrastructure

Migration Path: From distributed platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes

Solution: The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes to run SAP NetWeaver, SAP ERP, and IBM Lotus Notes software

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server v5.3, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SR3, SAP ERP 6.0 SR3, and IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration 7.0.2

Hardware: Two IBM System z10 Business Class mainframes, three and four IFLs

Benefits: The new email platform reduced recurrent costs by 30 percent, improved performance for IBM Lotus Notes for Collaboration software and SAP applications, and guaranteed an exhaustive and scalable control of resources

“We have chosen Red Hat for the quality of its solutions and its outstanding technical support. Both Red Hat and IBM have clearly understood our project objectives, and together with Banco Pastor have been thoroughly committed to the proposal. We have built a very strong platform. We are delighted with what we have achieved.”
Montserrat Torres, computer systems manager of Banco Pastor


“Through the server consolidation benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 Business Class, customers like Banco Pastor can invest in innovative solutions that deliver important cost reductions and improve their services and security. The proven performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z allows Banco Pastor to increase their response capability and the availability of their business applications.”
Carlos Roldan, IBM System z Manager in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Israel


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Delivers Class Act for the Victoria University of Wellington



FAST FACTS

Company: Victoria University of Wellington

Industry: Higher Education

Geography New Zealand

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

Migration Path: From Sun Solaris SPARC to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon Processor-based Dell servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Banner (student administration application by Sungard Higher Education)

Hardware: 4 x Dell 2850 servers with Intel Xeon processors

Benefits: Reduced annual maintenance fees, realized cost savings of 75 percent related to hardware, increased application performance, improved security, stability, and reliability

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Tallahassee Community College dramatically cuts IT costs while revamping its IT environment with IBM and Red Hat solutions

IBM CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY



Customer: Tallahassee Community College

Industry: Education

Geography: United States

IBM Business Partner: Mainline Information Systems, Red Hat

Business Challenge:
Needing to grow its organization to keep pace with its student body, TCC sought to update its aging IT infrastructure. Its existing environment included an IBM zSeries® 890 mainframe, a storage area network (SAN) with 1TB of capacity and a Novell net­work. The college wanted to boost its technology with reliable, flexible and scalable hardware that featured additional storage capacity to support new initiatives.

Solution: With help from IBM and IBM Business Partner Mainline Information Systems, TCC migrated its applications from its mainframe to an IBM System x™ platform featuring one IBM System x3950 server that hosts the production environment and runs the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® operating system and one System x3950 server that hosts a test environment.

Benefits: Achieves roughly US$250,000 per year in savings by growing its SAN, enabling the college to reallocate the funds to its operating budget. Enables the client to tackle new initiatives with greater flexibility and storage capacity. Supports all of the college’s different enterprise applications and enables it to provide students and faculty with larger storage accounts for e-mail and personalized Web portals

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Queensland Motorways leads the way to intelligent traffic management with IBM, SAP and Red Hat



IBM CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY

Customer: Queensland Motorways

Industry:Travel & Transportation

Geography:Australia

Business need: Heavy traffic on Brisbane's motorways was creating congestion, lengthening journey times for motorists and reducing travel reliability for local businesses. Toll plazas added to the problem, creating a choke point for motorists slowing to pay tolls. The Queensland Government, in conjunction with Queensland Motorways, which manages and operates the Gateway Bridge, Gateway Extension and Logan Motorways, decided to embark on a major upgrade project to enable traffic to flow more freely.

Solution:To support the Gateway Upgrade Project, Queensland Motorways wanted to implement free-flow tolling on its motorways. IBM Global Business Services was contracted to design, build, test, and deploy the intelligent free-flow tolling central system solution based on technology from IBM, SAP, Dacolian, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The SAP applications, identification, rating and interoperability applications, Internet Web portal and Oracle databases run on an IBM Power 570 server with 16 IBM POWER6 4.7GHz processors. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used as the operating system for the entire environment.

Software: Business Integration, Energy Efficiency, Enterprise Resource Planning, IT/infrastructure, Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Service Oriented Architecture, Smarter Planet, Transforming IT, SAP

Hardware: BladeCenter H Chassis, BladeCenter HS21, Storage: DS8000, System p: Power 570.

Benefits:
The solution allows Queensland Motorways to combine its knowledge of commuters' travel patterns with real-time data on traffic conditions to recommend fastest routes and avoid congestion. This helps to speed journeys, reduce congestion, and cut exhaust emissions. Drivers no longer have to stop to pay tolls, which reduces congestion, increases safety and enhances network reliability.

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Peruvian Government Agency Improves Employee Collaboration with Open Source Solutions from Red Hat, Alfresco and Zimbra



The Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation of Peru Implemented Zimbra Collaboration Suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Achieve Greater Scalability, Security and Productivity

FAST FACTS

Company: Ministerio de Vivienda: Peru's Ministry of Housing, Construction, and Sanitation

Industry: Government

Partner: Software Libre Andino

Geography: Peru

Business Challenge: Needed to replace the existing client/server e-mail and collaboration platform to achieve improved scalability, security, productivity, and to reduce costs

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Alfresco Zimlet, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: Dell Quad Core Server, 3.0 Ghz, 8GB ram, 1.5 Tb. Fully redundant

Migration Path: From a client/server system running on Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, a Web-based email technology, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and utilizing Alfresco Zimlet

Benefits: Improved communication and collaboration among users and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased access to e-mail, agendas, and documents independently from physical equipment; reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

"The high level of know-how and expertise of Red Hat’s consultants, coupled with Red Hat’s local presence, were decisive in making the decision to secure consulting rather than performing these tasks internally."
-- Jaime Honores Coronado, managing director of the General Department of Statistics and Information Systems, Ministerio de Vivienda.


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



COMPANY: Union Bank, N.A.

CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives

INDUSTRY: Financial Services

GEOGRAPHY: Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: An aging and costly IT infrastructure was impeding the ability of Union Bank to scale to growth and respond agilely to changing market dynamics

MIGRATION PATH: UNIX™ on high-end RISC machines to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based HP servers; Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux™, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform™, JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, Red Hat Consulting

HARDWARE: More than 150 Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based HP ProLiant servers

BENEFITS: Improved reliability and scalability, cut costs, and delivered new financial services and products to market faster

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GEICO MIGRATES TO JBOSS ENTERPRISE APPLICATION PLATFORM



COMPANY: GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company)

CATEGORY: Superior Alternatives

INDUSTRY: Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: US

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

MIGRATION PATH: Proprietary middleware platform to JBoss Enterprise Middleware

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

HARDWARE: 50 Dell servers

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

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VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS: RED HAT INNOVATION AWARD WINNER



COMPANY: Verizon Communications Inc.

INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Optimized Systems

INDUSTRY: Telecom; Broadband, Wireless, Wireline

GEOGRAPHY: North America

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

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Massachusetts Convention Center Authority and Optaros: JBoss Innovation Award Winner



COMPANIES: Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA) and Optaros

CATEGORY: Extensive Ecosystem

INDUSTRY: Convention center management

GEOGRAPHY: Boston, MA

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Manual processes and siloed systems resulted in inefficient workflows that caused customer service to suffer.

MIGRATION PATH: From a Microsoft™ Windows - based client-server application to service oriented architecture (SOA) J2EE application based upon the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

SOFTWARE: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, J2EE™, Google Web Toolkit™, Apache

HARDWARE: Intel Xeon™ - based x86 servers

BENEFITS: More efficient and timely access to data and an automated streamlined workflow that improved worker productivity and customer service levels and increased revenues. Approximately 90 percent of the MCCA's day-to-day operations are run using open source technologies.

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AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE: JBOSS INNOVATION AWARD WINNER



COMPANY: American Family Mutual Insurance Company

INNOVATION AWARD CATEGORY: Management Excellence

INDUSTRY: Property and Casualty Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: North America

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

MIGRATION PATH: Ad hoc monitoring solutions to JBoss Operations Network

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

HARDWARE: Intel based Dell x86 commodity servers

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

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

Australian Insurance Company Saves $500,000 by Migrating from Windows and WebSphere to Red Hat Platform and JBoss Middleware Solutions, Gains Increased Flexibility, Scalability and Freedom



COMPANY:Allianz Australia Insurance Limited (Allianz)

CATEGORY: Carved Out Costs

INDUSTRY: Insurance

GEOGRAPHY: Australia

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: Rebuild Allianz's IT infrastructure based on a flexible and scalable platform that could leverage new virtualisation technology to generate hardware and support savings, and reduce its underlying software and operations costs for several strategic business application projects

MIGRATION PATH: Windows and Intel-based infrastructure to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System z10 mainframe and from Websphere to JBoss Enterprise Middleware on Intel processor based HP ProLiant servers.

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting

HARDWARE: IBM System z10 mainframe, HP ProLiant servers

BENEFITS: Significant reduction in middleware software and support costs, reallocation of IT budget from software licensing to staff and resources, resolution of data centre power limitations with new capacity for growth, superior workload management and operational efficiency, reduced carbon footprint, increased flexibility, scalability, and freedom from vendor lock-in

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Harvard Business Publishing + Rivet Logic: 2009 JBoss Innovation Award



COMPANIES: Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) and Rivet Logic

CATEGORY: Optimized Systems

INDUSTRY: Publishing

GEOGRAPHY: Cambridge, Massachusetts

BUSINESS CHALLENGE: The HBP's ability to get new products to market and the quality of the customer experience at its e-commerce site were hindered by a proprietary operating system, a difficult-to-use legacy content management system (CMS), and inflexible customer-facing Web applications, which were negatively impacting the HBP's revenues and limiting growth

MIGRATION PATH: From a proprietary operating system running a proprietary legacy CMS application to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running the Alfresco Content Management System

SOFTWARE: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Frameworks including JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate, jBPM, Oracle Database, and Alfresco's open source Content Management System

HARDWARE: Intel™ Xeon™ processor-based Dell™ 2950 multicore servers

BENEFITS: Increased employee productivity, lowered IT operational costs, and increased Web site traffic and e-commerce transactions

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University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Depends on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Zimbra Collaboration Suite to Connect 50,000-Member Campus Community



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Companies: University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Zimbra

Industry: Higher education; technology (software)

Geography: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sunnyvale, California

Business Challenge: The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee needed to replace an aging email system with a new platform that would provide innovative collaboration solutions to their 50,000 accounts

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux; Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Benefits: Reduced IT administration and support costs by standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as primary campus operating system; By migrating the existing email system to Zimbra Collaboration Suite, UWM improved communication and collaboration among students, faculty and staff and provided a single integrated calendar and email solution; increased focus on student retention by providing tools to manage their academic and personal schedules and stay connected with faculty.

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is one of the most requested OS today, primarily due to its stability and performance. It was the obvious choice as the primary deployment platform for Zimbra."
—Ramesh May, Senior Manager, Marketing and Products, Zimbra


"When evaluating integrated email and calendar solutions, we focused on the total cost of ownership—that is, the lifetime cost, not just the purchase cost—of the applications. Zimbra running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux emerged as the clear consensus choice." —Bruce Maas, chief information officer, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee


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



FAST FACTS

Company: National City Corporation

Industry: Financial services

Geography: North America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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ANSYS Japan K.K: Fast, efficient, and cost-conscious product development



FAST FACTS:

Company: ANSYS Japn K.K.

Industry: Software: CAE

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

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL785 G5, 8-processor, 32-core, Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors, 256GB DRR2 memory

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.

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Red Hat And Y3 Technologies Help Mount Alvernia Hospital Pioneer Open Source Bed Management System





FAST FACTS

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Singapore

Business Challenge: Needed a solution to enable them to proactively monitor, track and respond in terms of bed usage and associated resources

Migration Path: Paper-based system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Red Hat Alliance Partner: Y3 Technologies Pte Ltd

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: IBM PowerSeries 2 P6-570 virutalized server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Bed management solution improved bed turnaround, and thus staff productivity; real-time information enables staff to provide improved patient care

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, together with Y3, offered a unique solution that met our needs and exceeded our expectations."
-- Fong Yong Choi, MIS manager at MAH


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Hilti Standardizes Global Mission-Critical Systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, ATIX Open-Sharedroot and SAP® Solutions



FAST FACTS

Industry: Construction & Engineering

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

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"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


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Monash University Health Sciences gets research results in a week instead of months using a Dell and Red Hat-based high-performance computing cluster



FAST FACTS

Customer: Monash University: Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Industry: Education

Geography: Australia

Business Challenge: Monash University needed to construct a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to support its biomedical research efforts. The cluster needed to be easily expandable, and CPU power per dollar spent was a major consideration.

Solution:cluster built on Dell PoweEdge blade servers and Dell PowerVault storage running Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Hardware: Dell PowerEdge M600 blade servers with Intel Xeon processors, Dell PowerEdge M1000e enclosures, Dell PowerVault MD3000 modular disk storage arrays, Dell PowerVault MD1000 disk expansion enclosures

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Platfrom OCS (Open Cluster Stack)

Benefits: Able to add a new server node in minutes with no downtime, able to support 400% more research projects, research completed in weeks vs. months, favorable price, lower power requirements, easily expandability of both cluster and storage

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UK's Largest Online Motoring Website, Autotrader.co.uk Migrates To Red Hat Solutions for Performance, Stability and Reliability



Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal

FAST FACTS

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

Benefits: Gained increased knowledge management, expanded stability, and reduced operational costs


“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


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Odyssey Logistics & Technology Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux On Intel® Xeon®Pro processor-based IBM servers to Run Mission-Critical Supply Chain Operations





FAST FACTS

Company: Odyssey Logistics & Technology Corporation (OL&T)

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


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Gap Inc. Direct, Utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Likewise Enterprise for Security and Compliance of E-Commerce Sites and Back-End Production



FAST FACTS

Company: Gap Inc. Direct

Industry: Clothing Online Retail

Geography: San Francisco

Business Challenge: Ensuring security and payment card industry compliance while managing system level access across the enterprise

Migration Path: UNIX and Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Likewise Enterprise

Hardware: 1,500 Intel-based IBM blade servers

Benefits: Savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on reduced administrative and hardware costs associated with compliance and security requirements. Compliance with PCI and SOX requirements through automatic authentication of users across a mixed systems environment.

“The ROI [return on investment] of the Red Hat-Likewise solution is up to several hundred thousand dollars annually once you add all of the hardware and software savings to the reduced costs associated with manually auditing the systems. Likewise Enterprise's compliance enhancements allowed us to control user access and permissions, thus enabling us to grow our Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.”
-- Jeff Arcuri, senior manager, IT for GAP Inc. Direct


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POSCO Migrates from RISC/UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Reduce Costs and Increase Reliability



FAST FACTS

Industry: Manufacturing

Geography: Republic of Korea

Challenge: Migrate to a flexible platform to achieve cost savings for server consolidation in the data center project

Migration: UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Database

Hardware: IBM xSeries, HP BladeSystem

Benefits: Reduce server operating costs; achieve reliable and flexible system operation

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Healthplan Services Migrates from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Decrease Cost



FAST FACTS

Customer: Healthplan Services (HPS)

Geography: North America

Industry: Healthcare

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

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

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 servers

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

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


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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with Virtualization Delivers Increased Performance to Dutch City Council

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FAST FACTS

Industry: Local Government

Geography: The Netherlands

Opportunity: Renew part of the city’s IT infrastructure and create a future-proof platform for its heterogeneous environment

Migration Path: Windows and Unix with small amounts of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, including virtualization and clustering

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization, Red Hat Global File System, Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Consulting, Basis Registratie Systeem (BRS)

Hardware: 6 Dell 1750, 1850, 1950, and 2950 servers

Benefits: Run more applications with less hardware, enable cost- and space-savings, provide scalability, offer capacity to support future growth and deliver disaster-recovery capabilities

“One of the key benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization is that we can install and roll out a new application in 60 minutes to all of our systems, compared to four hours per system previously.”
-- Hennie Stam, Senior System Administrator, DS+V Division at City of Rotterdam.


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YPF MIGRATES SAP APPLICATIONS TO RED HAT ON INTEL

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Oil and Gas Leader Reduced Costs and Increased Performance with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Integrated Virtualization on Intel® Xeon® processor-based Servers

FAST FACTS

Company: YPF SA

Industry: Oil and Gas

Geography: Argentina

Business Challenge: Renovate proprietary infrastructure with the goal of reducing costs and boosting performance with open source solutions

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Network, SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), 10g DB, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x 346, 366, 3650, 3850 servers

Migration Path: From SUN Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based IBM System x servers

Benefits: Reduced capital and operational costs, boosted performance and efficiency of administrators, increased internal customer satisfaction by reducing implementation time, increased scalability and agility, and expanded flexibility

“Now, more than 80 percent of our Oracle databases and 90 percent of our SAP applications run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon Processor-based servers and is the choice for our SAP and Oracle implementations."
--Adriana Marisa Vázquez, responsible for the UNIX administration group at YPF.


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AQA, Leading UK Exam Board, Cuts Costs, Innovates with End-to-End Open Source Solution



Fast Facts

Industry: Education

Geography: United Kingdom

Business Challenge: To launch an extranet service that would be available to its external users of more than 35,000 examiners and moderators

Migration path: Proprietary, closed solution to a more cost-effective and flexible platform based on JBoss Enterprise Application platform

Solution:

Hardware – HP ProLiant Servers

Software – JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Alfresco ECM, Enterprise DB

Benefits: Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), including cost and efficiency savings of £250,000 per year, and freedom from vendor lock-in

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Aviza Technology Supports Global Operations with Oracle EBS Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM System x

FAST FACTS

Customer: Aviza Technology

Industry: Electronics

Deployment Country: United States

Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning

Business Partner: IBM

Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Sun SPARC to IBM System x

Business Need: When end-of-life issues on the company’s existing Sun hardware began impacting the availability of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), Aviza sought a cost-effective systems solution from IBM.

Solution: Aviza implemented a two-tier Oracle configuration, with Oracle EBS v11.5.10 on one IBM System x3850 4-socket server and Oracle Database 10g on one IBM System x3950 16-socket server—both running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. IBM System Storage N5200 provides 2.4 TB of data storage. The development environment has six test instances running on five x3850 servers, with a second N5200 providing 7.2 TB of data storage.

Benefits: Aviza Technology achieved a multifold increase in solution performance, enabled new levels of systems scalability and flexibility across the company's global IT infrastructure, and better positioned the company to meet unforeseen IT system challenges.

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Arsys Achieves Reliable Internet Services with Red Hat Enterprise Linux



FAST FACTS

Industry: Hosting and Internet services provider

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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Pro BTP - Develops Comprehensive Call Center Solution with IBM and Red Hat

Lower costs and increased sales with a comprehensive call center solution

FAST FACTS

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.

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Sentry Data Systems Reduces Server footprint and Boosts Computing Power with Red Hat and IBM

FAST FACTS

Customer: Sentry Data Systems

Industry: Healthcare

Deployment Country: United States

Solution: Information Infrastructure, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Server Consolidation, Virtualization

Business Partner: IBM

Business Need: Sentry’s core infrastructure required substantial computing power and high-speed storage. Four difficult-to-administer racks of large servers supported the company’s day-to-day business processes, costing much energy, effort and money to run. Sentry wanted to accommodate its growing business while simplifying the design and administration of its underlying IT infrastructure.

Solution: Sentry began by consolidating on an IBM BladeCenter® H chassis that supports 14 IBM BladeCenter HS21 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The new solution greatly simplifies system administration by enabling the company to access and manage all hardware remotely from a single console. All cabling is integrated within the BladeCenter technology, reducing the amount of wires previously needed for power and remote access.

Benefits:
  • Reduces operating costs and offers remote administration
  • Increases storage capacity and performance
  • Reduces server footprint and amount of cabling


“Besides consolidating our servers, we reduced our cabling significantly. Out of the box, the IBM BladeCenter required just a few uplinks—power, Ethernet and fiber channel—and immediately all 14 servers were connected.”
-- Sentry Data Systems


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The City of Burbank brings Oracle ERP home with Red Hat on IBM BladeCenter

FAST FACTS

Customer: The City of Burbank

Industry: Government

Deployment Country: United States

Solution: Enterprise Resource Planning

Business Need: The City of Burbank needed to bring its multi-vendor infrastructure onto a scalable platform that supports multiple operating systems.

Solution: The City consolidated on IBM BladeCenter® and IBM System Storage™ DS4300 while migrating to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.

Benefits: As a result of the implementation, the City achieved better performance, significant space savings, and reduced costs for hardware, power, cooling, maintenance, monitoring and licensing.

"We’re running the complete Oracle ERP solution--the application and the database--all on one BladeCenter with four-processor blades." That solution includes Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10, Oracle Application Server and Oracle Database 10g, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "It’s easier to maintain, from an administrative perspective, and it’s less costly because we are licensing for only one production server."
-- Mahesh Saraswat, Lead Database Administrator, City of Burbank


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Discount Tire Accelerates Its E-Commerce Business With Red Hat Satellite


FAST FACTS

Company: Discount Tire Company

Industry: Consumer - Automotive Retail

Geography: Scottsdale, Arizona

Business Challenge: Support the rapidly growing e-commerce side of the business while keeping costs contained and complying with strict PCI security standards

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Satellite, Apache, WebLogic, IBM Lotus Domino Server, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: 50 Dell x86 servers

Migration Path: Microsoft Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Provided an easily managed, secure, and utterly reliable platform for Discount Tire’s e-commerce business. Enabled compliance with PCI security standards. Increased IT staff productivity and contained costs due to the ability to easily provision, maintain, and manage servers.


“I’ve been in the IT industry for about 20 years now, and Red Hat is far and above any other company I’ve ever worked with. Not only are its products of the highest caliber, but it is incredibly responsive to all our needs. Red Hat support is top-of-the-line, and the Red Hat phone number is on my phone’s speed dial, and it is going to stay there.”
-- Will Darton, senior server support administrator, Discount Tire.


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INO.com
LinuxBIZZ.com
Manufacturing Central
SYS-CON Media
Xtreme Open Source

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Educational Testing Services Achieves Highest Marks with Red Hat



FAST FACTS

Company: Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Industry: Education

Geography: International

Business Challenge: Roll out new, competitively priced educational products and services more swiftly while cutting costs. Build applications upon a base of infrastructure software technology that will position ETS for evolution into cloud models.

Migration Path: Vertically scalable platform to commodity software and hardware platform and proprietary application server technology to Open source technology

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Web Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: Intel x86 systems

Benefits: Reduce costs and boost competitiveness by moving to a stable, secure x86-based platform for developing and delivering new assessment products to market more quickly.

With Red Hat products, ETS achieves the following benefits (metrics are based on the current server-hardware and OS support service cost at ETS:

  • Cost savings (approximately 40 percent)

  • Improved efficiency (approximately 30 percent)

  • Improved technology management and standardization

  • Improved leverage of development resources

  • Better positioned for adoption of cloud computing and virtualization technologies


“We performed extensive in-house performance testing, talked to industry analysts and considered all other aspects of the operating system and application server, including the quality of support, market share and the software and hardware ecosystem. Once we took all these things into consideration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss from Red Hat with support subscription were the obvious choice at that time.”
– Harikumar Rajappan, enterprise IT architect for applications at ETS


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BBP Builds Reliable Reputation on Integrated Open Source Development Stack




SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS

BBP develops financial messaging applications that are offered to financial institutions on an in-house or service bureau basis for SWIFT, SIC, and other financial networks. BBP guarantees continuous interbank connection availability and 24x7 access to its IGTplus middleware. Given the sensitivity of the application and the underlying data, BBP required an application infrastructure that could meet its stringent requirements for security and availability. BBP chose Red Hat and Ingres technologies due to comprehensive functionality provided by the individual products as well as the fact that the products were pre-integrated, fully certified, tested, and tuned for performance.

This solution was also chosen because both Ingres and Red Hat are well known for providing 24x7 support and maintenance to enterprises around the world. Cost was an important factor as well. Deployed since 2003, the application provides software and services to hundreds of banks throughout Europe as well as other countries including the United States.

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ConnectedWeddings.com Makes Planning Easier via Facebook Integration

Rivet Logic Helps New Gravity Venture Deploy the Application on Alfresco, JBoss, Ingres, and Red Hat



SUCCESS STORY HIGHLIGHTS

As Facebook seeks to expand beyond purely social networking, New Gravity Ventures enters the market with ConnectedWeddings.com, a Facebook application that offers an innovative and easier way to plan weddings. The new application enables couples anywhere to use Facebook, an iPhone or the Web to manage planning tasks and create a customized, professional looking wedding page-all for free.

The two most important criteria for the Facebook application were scalability and the ability to derive optimal value from the content and present it to consumers in unique ways. New Gravity Ventures also required a solution that would empower end-users with the tools they need to fully take advantage of the application's social networking capability.

Rivet Logic chose Alfresco as the content management platform for ConnectedWeddings.com because of its ability to support content-rich applications. Rivet Logic deployed a solution based on an open source infrastructure stack that included the Alfresco content management platform, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and the Ingres Database on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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



FAST FACTS

Industry: Financial Services

Geography: Hong Kong

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

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

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

Hardware: Intel Xeon based servers

Services: Red Hat Consulting

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

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


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Kliniken des Landkreises Lörrach enhances patient care and cuts costs with IBM, Red Hat and SAP

FAST FACTS

Customer: Kliniken des Landkreises Lörrach

Industry: Healthcare

Country: Germany

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




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



FAST FACTS

Geography: Republic of Korea

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

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

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

Hardware: Dell PE2950/ PE1850, EMC CX3-10

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

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


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




FAST FACTS

Company: Wall Street Systems

Industry: Financial Services - Software

Geography: Global

Business Challenge: Create new revenue streams by responding to customer demands for treasury and financial management software available as a service 24/7. Cut costs and improve reliability and scalability of internal systems. Ensure market competitiveness by reducing the infrastructure investment required by customers.

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, Oracle DB

Hardware: Intel® Xeon® based x86 servers

Migration-Path: Solaris on SPARC Servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization on Intel Xeon based servers

Benefits: Created new revenue opportunities and maintained its industry leadership position; Cut costs and boosted operational efficiencies and system reliability

“Our clients see that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is reliable. They are completely comfortable knowing that they can run their largest, most critical systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and that they’ll get enterprise-class support.”
– Mark Tirschwell, chief technology officer, Wall Street Systems


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

Armonk, NY, and Raleigh, NC. 22 April 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), a leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Handelsbanken, one of the four largest banks in the Nordic Area, has achieved strong business continuity, security and cost-efficiency results by deploying virtualization technology using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z servers and IBM System z operating system, z/OS. The bank’s newly deployed technology solution will help maintain a highly resilient and secure network that scales based on business demands.

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Vizuri Partners with Red Hat to Deliver Middleware Solutions that Drive Healthcare Innovation



FAST FACTS

Company: North American Non-profit Medical Research Organization; Vizuri, a Red Hat Advanced Business Partner

Industry: Healthcare: Biomedical Research and science education

Geography: US

Business Challenge: Aggregate critical information, reduce operational costs, and increase performance to internal and external users, and increase availability of research to a wider audience, through the use of a foundational portal platform.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform (32-cpu), JBoss Rules (32-cpu), JBoss jBPM (32-cpu), Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform, JBoss Developer Studio, Alfresco ECM, Alfresco WCM

Benefits: The Red Hat and Vizuri partnership helped a non-profit medical research organization complete a side-by-side evaluation and selection process that compared the solution benefits of open source software to proprietary software. Through customer experiences, JBoss and Vizuri were able to outline to the customer that the cost savings provided by the selecting an open source solution would allow the customer to leverage Alfresco Enterprise Content Management.

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SPH Search Selects Red Hat Solutions For Reliability and Security to Scale Search Engine’s Business Growth

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Fast Facts:

Company: SPH Search

Industry: Information technology

Geography: Singapore

Business Challenge: SPH Search needed a reliable and secure solution to drive its new search engine services, Rednano,sg

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Global File System (GFS), Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite

Hardware: HP Intel Xeon-based servers

Benefits: Established a robust, reliable, and secure search engine with the confidence of enterprise-level support

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CITYTECH Helps Advent Conferencing Deploy JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

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Companies: Advent Conferencing and CITYTECH

Industry: Conferencing/ Services/Technology

Geography: Chicago

Business Challenge: Needed to differentiate itself from the competition in a commodity marketplace.

Software: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Including: JBoss Seam Framework, JBoss Messaging and JBoss Cache, JBoss jBPM Framework

Benefits: Increased sales by offering a more flexible and customized service; Boosted customer satisfaction by improving provisioning and billing procedures; streamlined internal processes and cut operational costs through integrating customer relationship management, business process management, and accounting systems.

“With an award-winning organization like Red Hat behind us, and world-class technology like JBoss to leverage for our solutions, we are primed for success,” said Matt Van Bergan, chief technology officer, CITYTECH.

“CITYTECH listens to my needs, and is very creative about coming back with ideas, they speak in terms that make me confident they understand my business, and are completely focused on making Advent successful.” – Mike Swimelar, president, Advent Conferencing

See CITYTECH in the Press: Enterprise Management Quarterly

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Red Hat Virtualization Delivers Cost Savings and Increased Performance for University of Sydney

FAST FACTS

Customer: University of Sydney

Industry: Education

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

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KSH Holdings Improves Data Accuracy and Speed With Red Hat Solutions



FAST FACTS

Company: KSH Holdings

Industry: Construction

Geography: Singapore

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.




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Red Hat Virtualization and Tapasol Solutions Enables Cost-Effective Deployment of ServusNet Informatics Software





FAST FACTS

Partner: Tapasol Solutions

Customer: ServusNet Informatics

Industry: Technology

Geography: Cork, Ireland

Business Challenge:
Simplify the deployment of ServusNet Informatics’ Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution at remote customer sites using Tapasol’s provisioning engine based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Migration Path: Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with integrated virtualization on Dell x86 servers

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 with built-in virtualization, JBoss Application Server, Liferay Portal, Oracle DB

Hardware:
Dell x86 servers

Benefits: Increased deployment speed of ServusNet Informatics' Process Driven Operations & Maintenance solution; reduced costs of implementing virtualization technology; continuing enhancement to the productivity of developers working on leading-edge Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based software products



“Red Hat Enterprise Linux with integrated virtualization capabilities was easy and more cost-effective to implement than other solutions on the market. We reduced the effort it took to provision a server by 92 percent. As the engine underlying both our and Tapasol’s solutions, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is making a significant contribution to our ability to offer a competitive product.””
-Sean Condon, Director of Product Development, ServusNet Informatics




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

2010 Red Hat Innovation Award Winner: Extensive Ecosystem

FAST FACTS



Industry: Finance/banking

Geography: New Zealand

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

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

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

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

Benefits:
  • Recovered 30 percent of datacenter floor space
  • Reduced power consumption by 38 percent
  • 20 percent return on investment (ROI) over the life of the platform
  • Simplified, more efficient deployment


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Read More About BNZ in the press:
CIO Magazine

Computer Business Review

OS Today

Linux Today

Financial Extra

Banking Technology


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Indian Express Chooses Red Hat Solutions to Transform its Legacy Infrastructure into a Future-Ready Platform

FAST FACTS

Industry: Media

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.

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Fairchild Semiconductor Reduces Costs and Expands Flexibility with Red Hat Solutions



FAST FACTS

Customer: Fairchild Semiconductor

Industry: Semiconducting

Geography: Worldwide

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.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Creates a Robust Foundation for Hospital’s Electronic Medical Record System


Company:
Midland Memorial Hospital

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Midland, Texas

Business Challenge: Replace an existing proprietary health information system (HIS) with an open-source-based suite of integrated applications to improve quality of patient care while cutting costs.

Migration Path: Moved from proprietary HIS legacy system to an open-source solution based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on HP hardware.

Software: Medsphere’s OpenVista Electronic Health Record (EHR) solution.

Hardware: Two HP Proliant DL580 G2 servers and one HP ProLiant DL380 server; HP Compaq desktops for client machines.

Implemented an open-source EHR that put patient information at the fingertips of healthcare providers for less than half the price of an equivalent proprietary system.


“Red Hat continues to make an incredibly valuable contribution to the technology industry by putting its tremendous resources behind Linux and commercializing it for enterprise use. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast for years, and I absolutely trust my organization’s well-being to Red Hat.” --David Whiles, Director of Information Systems for Midland Memorial Hospital



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Leading Italian Organizations Rely on Red Hat Solutions for Performance Enhancements and Cost-Savings

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.

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NYSE Euronext Chooses Red Hat Solutions for Flexibility and Reliable, Fast-Paced Performance

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Industry: Financial Trading

Geography: Global

Business Challenge: To integrate varied trading platforms to produce a high-speed, low-cost platform that offers the reliability and flexibility necessary to produce the rapid performance results demanded by the expanding financial trading industry

Migration Path: HP-UX, IBM AIX, and SUN Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network

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

Benefits: Implemented a reliable, secure, and cost-effective solution that provided flexibility, freedom from vendor lock-in, and the ability to handle heavy workloads while producing fast-paced performance results

“Red Hat is extremely strategic and without it, most of our computers wouldn’t be running,” said Steve Rubinow, Chief Information Officer at NYSE Euronext.

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Alintec - 2008 JBoss Innovation Award Winner

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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.

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Florida Hospital Enhances IT Performance and Patient Care with Red Hat Virtualization Technology and Consulting



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Company: Florida Hospital

Industry: Healthcare

Geography: Orlando, Fla.

Business Challenge: Design a new disaster-recovery system that would ensure seamless business continuity for the hospital; determine a solution to aid in delivering high-performance, secure, cost-effective systems to ensure optimized patient care; identify a solution to enable internal hosting and support for the growing number of external websites

Migration Path: IBM AIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform with integrated virtualization, Red Hat Global File System and Cluster Suite; Red Hat Network Satellite; JBoss Enterprise Application Platform; JBoss Operations Network, Red Hat Consulting; MySQL, Oracle, Caché, FoxPro, and Postgres databases; proprietary applications for reporting and management of patient data and for mail, security, and virus protection

Hardware: HP and IBM servers

Benefits: Streamlined disaster recovery and gained higher system availability and resource efficiencies that translate into better patient care; achieved 35 percent growth in its datacenter without needing to expand its hardware footprint or internal resources through its use of virtualization; gained expertise through the knowledge transfer resulting from virtualization and clustering-focused engagements with Red Hat Consulting
“Our first priority is security and our second is performance. When you can get security and performance needs met, and it costs less than the alternative, you go for it. That's the quadrant that Red Hat Enterprise Linux plays in.” -- Barbara Schleider, director of Technology Services, Management Information Systems (MIS) at Florida Hospital

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Flake-Wilkerson Market Insights Migrates Mission-Critical Applications to Red Hat Solutions

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Industry: Research
Geography: Arkansas, Tennessee, New York
Opportunity: Replace outdated IT solutions with an affordable, reliable, and performance-boosting solution for mission-critical applications
Migration Path: HP 3000 series to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server on HP Xenon dual-processors
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
Hardware: HP Xenon 380 dual-processors
Benefits: Reduced IT costs by approximately one-third, experienced high performance, enjoyed ease of installation

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



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Customer: Basel University

Industry: Education

Geography: Switzerland

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

Migration Path: Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server

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

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

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Finding a better way with Red Hat Enterprise Linux



Industry: State and Local Government
Solution: Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Applications: Oracle9i Database, Legato backup solutions, HP MSL Tape Library
Hardware: HP DL580 G2
Benefits: Up to 3x performance improvement, lower server procurement and maintenance costs, increased hardware options

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