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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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