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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
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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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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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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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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 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: 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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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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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: Improve reliability and scalability, cut costs, and deliver new financial services and products to market faster
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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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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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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, JBoss Messaging, JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM, 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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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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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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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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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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware form bedrock for over 120 applications and high traffic web portal
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Industry: Publishing
Geography: United Kingdom
Business Challenge: To replace inefficient, incumbent systems with a reliable and affordable standardised system
Migration Path: A number of different platforms, including Tomcat, to one standardised platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware
Hardware: x86 commodity hardware
Software: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform including JBoss Hibernate
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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Company: SNS Bank
Industry: Financial Services
Geography: Netherlands
Middleware: JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and jBPM
Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Benefits: Flexible and high-performance platform; fast, standardized development, cost effective, low total cost of ownership.
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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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Industry: Transportation
Geography: Singapore
Business Challenge: Provide an alternative channel for taxi booking to alleviate phone call booking overload during peak periods
Solution: Short Message Service (SMS) booking system developed on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Seam
Benefits: Allows customers to book a taxi anytime, anywhere using SMS in just 30 seconds, which means less waiting time for customers and more booking jobs for cab drivers
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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
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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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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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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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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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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:
“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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