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Industry: Local Government
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: Camden Council’s disparate data silos were restricting the customer service experience for its planning application process
Migration Path: Multiple databases, including: CRM – Lagan frontline; Tagish iCasework – self service e-forms and case management, both available on Oracle 9.2, Framework-i; Social care application, data available on CSV Files extracted from the system, and Northgate Housing application, data exposed by Web services provided by supplier
Solution: Camden Council implemented JBoss Enterprise Data Services with the help and guidance of Red Hat Consulting to integrate disparate data silos and greatly enhance the customer experience
Software: JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform (based on the MetaMatrix technology), JBoss Seam, JBoss Hibernate
Benefits: Reduced project cost by approximately 80 percent, reduced enquiry time by two thirds, and improved customer satisfaction
“The knowledge transfer that occurred during our site engagement means my internal team knows more about the technology and how to use it effectively. This component added value to our consulting purchase and lasted long after the consultant had left.”
- Francois Mounier, integration and development manager, corporate ICT, Camden Council
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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, 2010 – 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.
“The powerful combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization made Red Hat the obvious solution to virtualize our key business-critical systems,” said Roger Kemmler, IT manager at Voddler. “Red Hat’s subscription-based model will help us support our infrastructure as we grow and launch the service in new markets. For this we require a stable and secure platform that is cost-effective, centrally administered and extremely scalable. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization meets all of those criteria.”
Voddler continually updates its catalogue of film titles and its growing customer base is using the service more frequently, which means the demand on web server and database capacity is continually increasing. A key requirement for Voddler is to have the flexibility to scale the server platform and redistribute resources to meet the demand for increased capacity. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization allows Voddler to consolidate and increase the effectiveness of its physical infrastructure by using features such as live migration and dynamic resource scheduling to help ensure that the physical systems are used close to their maximum capacity.
Red Hat Network Satellite, a systems management tool, helps Voddler to quickly and easily configure and maintain the virtualized servers running on the new Red Hat platform.
Consultancy EnjoyIT, a Red Hat Ready Partner, is providing support for the project implementation and is also acting in an advisory role.
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, visit www.redhat.com/rhev
About Voddler
Voddler was founded 2005 in Stockholm, Sweden. Its mission is to provide high quality home entertainment on-demand, collaborating with some of the biggest companies in the entertainment business. For more information about Voddler, see www.voddler.com/about/
Customer: Deutsche Börse Systems
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Business Challenge: Create a new client interface for a real-time transaction risk information system of the leading European clearing house, Eurex Clearing, based on open standards
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging with AMQP
Benefits: End customers, mainly banks, get immediate access to valuable risk management data directly from Eurex Clearing’s back-end systems without the need of customised adaptors. Deutsche Börse Systems can now focus on key operational tasks, leaving ongoing support of the AMQP-based messaging system to Red Hat.
“We decided to implement Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging with AMQP because we favour open standards and we want to make it as easy as possible for our client banks to access the relevant risk data. Using the open standard AMQP helps to avoid complex and time-consuming development of customized adaptors and gives customers freedom of choice for vendor selection.”
– Gerhard Lessmann, member of the Executive Board, Deutsche Börse Systems
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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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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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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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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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Deployment of JBoss Enterprise BRMS improves scalability, efficiency and risk management for investment company
Raleigh, NC – January 20, 2010 – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Millennium Global Investments (MGI), a specialist in developing and managing alternative investment products for institutional investors, has selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS (Business Rules Management System) for its mission-critical business rules repository.
London-based MGI wanted to improve the flexibility of its compliance system so that its business and trade rules could be revised and adjusted rapidly within a managed environment. MGI selected JBoss Enterprise BRMS to bring business rules into a managed environment, standardise business rules and support the scalability of the business.
The transparency of the new repository enables MGI business users to gain access to detailed information about why certain rules may prevent trading. This access improves business users’ efficiency and reduces the number of queries sent to MGI’s IT organisation. The transparent business rules repository is also an essential part of MGI’s risk management strategy
“Red Hat’s flexible subscription terms for JBoss Enterprise Middleware allowed us to deploy only the components needed for the new platform and to avoid vendor lock-in. Unlike other vendors, Red Hat offers the ability to support other applications of the rules engine, be it market signal monitoring or algorithmic trading,” said Richard Macaskill, managing director, IT & Systems Development, MGI. “We were very pleased with the level of support Red Hat provided during the new business rules repository’s development. We are extremely satisfied to have deployed an integrated business rules platform that has improved our efficiency and ability to manage risk.”
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Customer: Asociación Técnica Cajas de Ahorros (ATCA)
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Spain
Business Challenge: Developing and maintaining an efficient, secure, and scalable e-banking system for its associates
Migration Path: Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Solution: Migrated from Sun Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM blade servers to reduce costs, increase scalability, and increase the IT department’s ability to focus on business objectives
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Apache, Tomcat, and customer development tools and applications, DB2 Databases
Hardware: IBM blade servers with Xeon processors, boot from SAN (Hitachi cabins), with dualpath and asynchronic replica at 400 km
Benefits: Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides ATCA with reliability, scalability, and flexibility at a low cost, enabling ATCA to adapt the infrastructure to its business needs
“Red Hat’s open source solutions provide greater flexibility and security than proprietary alternatives, which are much more opaque. It provides us with a total guaranty of high availability. Furthermore, it offers an optimal value for money.”
Pablo Fuster, ATCA’s Systems Manager
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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
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.”
Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite is Red Hat’s on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. It offers customers opportunities to gain enhanced performance, centralized control and higher scalability for their systems, while deployed on a management server located inside the customer’s datacenter and firewall.
In September 2009, Red Hat released RHN Satellite 5.3, the first fully open source version of the product. This latest version offers opportunities for increased flexibility and faster provisioning setups for customers with the incorporation of open source Cobbler technology in its provisioning architecture. The 5.3 release is also designed to allow customers to better scale with server growth, offering the ability to manage large numbers of systems with comparable ease to managing one.
Recently, IDC also published a Red Hat-sponsored paper featuring the systems management benefits that customers have experienced with RHN Satellite. After interviewing 10 RHN Satellite customers in depth – crossing geographies and industry verticals — IDC reported significant return on investment (ROI) and productivity results for customers. Here are some of the highlights from the customer testimonials:
Average payback period of 4.8 months
A doubled increase in the number of Linux servers managed per system administrator
Average annual benefit of $82,521 per 100 Linux servers
Average of $23,207 in annual user productivity increase
In their own words, customers quoted in the paper showed that RHN Satellite helped them achieve:
Scalability: “…with Satellite Server, once things are set up and it is in place, managing 200 servers is as easy as managing one.”
Reduced costs: “For an OS install, we used to hire someone outside to do the work. We would buy the hardware, then we pay them to come on site, answer questions. So now, we are completely avoiding that cost.”
Faster server setup and management: “As far as time saving goes, I would say we are easily saving 20 hours per month because we aren’t doing things manually.”
Business growth: “In terms of the impact, I always count what we can sell in an hour. If the system is down, we can’t sell and that’s a revenue impact. In just one hour, we might lose millions of euros, so the impact is huge.”
To read the full IDC paper on RHN Satellite, visit here.
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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.
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
One of the largest municipal electric distribution utility in Canada deploys JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform to eliminate proprietary lock-In and cut costs
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Customer: Toronto Hydro Corporation
JBoss Advanced Business Partner: Int3s Corp.
Industry: Utilities: Electric Power
Geography: Toronto, Canada
Business Challenge: To build a service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foundation for future-looking strategic initiatives designed to support enablement of smart metering and smart grid integration, reduce operational costs, promote energy conservation, and improve IT productivity
Solution: Deployed JBoss Enterprise SOA and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform for innovative Smart Meter program and has successfully completed the initial phases of its program to create a customer-focused cost and energy-saving initiative
Software: JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (including JBoss ESB), Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Leveraging Int3s expertise in SOA and Red Hat / JBoss open source Enterprise Framework, Toronto Hydro was able to successfully complete the initial phases of its groundbreaking Smart Meter program and plan other customer-focused cost- and energy-saving initiatives going forward.
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“Toronto Hydro’s technology strategy required experienced resources to supplement internal staff in delivering complex custom development projects. The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a comprehensive toolset that comes with everything we need to build a solid SOA for facilitating easy integration of disparate systems and data. It was the perfect solution to meet our current needs – and we trust Red Hat to meet our future ones.”
– Nicholas Yee, Chief Technology Officer, Int3s
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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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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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Dubai, U.A.E. – – Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the Emirates Group IT, operating under the brand name Mercator, a global provider of business technology solutions, delivering business transformation, process improvement and return on investment to more than 100 customers in over five continents, has standardized its IT operations on a combination of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware after a three month pilot program..
In an effort to simplify its datacenter and reduce the total cost of operations for web server technologies, the Emirates Group migrated approximately 80% of its comparable servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat’s middleware solution portfolio offers a certified and supported platform for other open source technologies, a critical factor for the Emirates Group when deciding to standardise on open source technologies.
Brazilian Paint Manufacturer, Tintas Iquine, Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Increase Performance and Improve Security
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Customer: Tintas Iquine
Industry: Manufacturing: Paint and Tints
Geography: Brazil
Business Challenge: Increase the stability and performance of business critical ERP applications
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Datasul, Progress Database, Trend Micro Security Solution
Hardware: Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers
Migration Path: UNIX/RISC based servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel Xeon processor based Dell PowerEdge servers
Benefits: Red Hat virtualization enabled increased stability, performances, and increased security on redundancy and backup, and Red Hat Satellite simplified systems management
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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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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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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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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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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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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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