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Customer: Lufthansa Cargo AG

Industry: Transport and logistics

Geography: Frankfurt, Germany

Business Challenge: To create a state-of-the-art middleware infrastructure for a global shipment status processing system based on industry-standard hardware, while ensuring maximum flexibility by integrating it with existing components, cost effectiveness, and scalability

Migration Path: Proprietary HP-UX operating system running on mainframe servers to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on industry-standard x86 servers

Solutions: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Consulting, Oracle WebLogic (for database access), Oracle 10 Database

Hardware: HP Proliant Servers

Benefits: Gained flexibility and the ability to accommodate new customer requests; saved more than 50 percent by migrating to the new base installation; realised even further cost savings when scaling the platform further to meet market demand; avoided lock-in to proprietary software licensing, hardware, and programming languages

“With Red Hat's open source subscription model, we can scale up and down easily without worrying about price per CPU creating unexpected extra costs. By migrating our Shipment Status Processing installation to JBoss Enterprise Middleware, we have saved around fifty percent compared to competitive software license models.”
-- Antonio Mastrolorito, Chief IT Architect, Lufthansa Cargo AG

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Customer: NH Hotels

Industry: Travel and tourism

Geography: Spain/International

Business Challenge: To reduce operational and maintenance costs by standardizing and automating the server ecosystem to manage hotel operations across all sites

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting

Hardware: Heterogeneous hardware by different manufacturers

Benefits: Standardization and homogenization of IT infrastructure for greater control over an entire server estate; Efficient management with greater flexibility and scalability; Reduction in support and maintenance costs; Simplification

“ We are more than satisfied with the quality of solutions and services provided by Red Hat. The complex nature of this project suggested that the implementation would be complicated. However, thanks to the help and support of Red Hat, we were able to complete the project quickly and effectively.”
-- Julio Matarranz, Head of Corporate IT, NH Hotels

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Customer: Telecinco

Industry: Broadcast Media

Geography: Spain

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

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

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

Hardware: HP Poliant DL580 G5 servers and Blade servers

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

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

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

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Customer: Landesbetrieb für Statistik und Kommunikationstechnologie Niedersachsen (LSKN)

Industry: Public Sector

Geography: Germany

Business Challenge: Needed a high-availability platform for the Lower Saxony Police to use as the infrastructure for its web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis, while keeping operational and maintenance costs at a minimum

Solution: LSKN implemented Red Hat solutions to serve as the infrastructure for its mission-critical, web-based case and operations processing application, Nivadis

Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Consulting, BEA WebLogic

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL360 servers with standard x86 processors

Migration Path: Siemens-Fujitsu BS2000/OSD to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Benefits: Eliminated vendor lock-in; Increased scalability, availability, and performance; Achieved cost savings in operations, support, and licensing fees; Gained the ability to meet and exceed national regulations and requirements; Increased system security; Simplified management of systems

“Our main concerns are absolute reliability and cost effectiveness throughout the entire lifecycle of our server-based applications. Our decision to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux has proven to be one of the best we have made in recent years.”
-- Dieter Meyer, Head of UNIX-Service-Center, LSKN

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Customer: INFOnline

Industry: Internet audience measurement

Geography: Bonn, Germany

Business Challenge: Build a new, enterprise-grade, multi-tier storage and backup architecture to ensure high availability and data security for continuous Internet Audience Measurement of more than 1,300 leading German news and entertainment websites


Migration Path: INFOnline moved from a simple legacy hard-disk backup solution to a multi-tier storage infrastructure with clustered fail-over capacities based on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and SEP sesam on IBM System x and System p servers, as well as various IBM storage hardware


Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Red Hat Network Satellite, SEP sesam, Nagios Software Groundwork (for monitoring), Red Hat Consulting, Red Hat Global File System


Hardware: IBM System x servers, IBM System p servers, 2 IBM DS 3400 and 1 IBM DS 8000 hard-disk storage, Hardware TS3100 tape library


Benefits: Achieved a scalable and highly reliable storage and backup system capable of handling an increasing amount of usage data of currently more than 30 GB daily from a growing number of websites monitored by INFOnline

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Customer: State of Tennessee: Office for Information Resources (OIR)

Geography: US

Business Challenge: Implement a cost-effective, flexible middleware software, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, resulting in lower costs, increased performance and scaling for growth

Migration Path: Proprietary middleware software to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat Consulting,
Red Hat Training

Benefits: Substantial savings on hardware and licensing costs for all new deployments, increased and impressive performance, stability and reliability, higher availability, and excellent support
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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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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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Industry: Transportation

Geography: The Netherlands

Business challenge: Maintaining an uninterrupted rail service. Realizing an uptime of 100 percent.

Migration Path: Migrating existing applications, including those that suffered problems with the performance of BEA Weblogic on OpenVMS. Building new applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Red Hat Global File System with cluster environment, Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Network Provisioning Module, Red Hat Certificate System, Red Hat Consulting, and Red Hat Training and Certification.

Benefits: Easy update policy, stable system, 100 percent uptime in the first quarter of 2008

”We wanted a stable, robust, yet flexible infrastructure and finally chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We also selected Red Hat Enterprise Linux for most new projects as the Red Hat operating system best suits our requirements and objectives for future business plans."
-- Mike Bos, infrastructure manager, ProRail

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